After looking through one of those blogs that is dedicated to bad book covers (and seeing a few that I’ve read as well as the one I am currently reading), my husband pointed out that we had some books with covers that were quite possibly worse than any of those other covers (personally, I think that is debatable although I think they are right up there among the worst). So he took a photo of them, which should be clicked […]

This week I got some books ordered off my wish list that didn’t arrive on time for my birthday and two review copies (one ARC). One of the review copies is actually a duplicate copy of a book I received the end of last week so I won’t be including it again. However, this does mean that around the time I read The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker, I will be giving away my second copy. I haven’t made […]

Tsunami Blueby Gayle Ann Williams290pp (Paperback)My Rating: 3/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: N/AGoodreads Rating: 3.82/5 Tsunami Blue is a debut paranormal romance by Gayle Ann Williams. There will be a second book set in the same post-apocalyptic world that takes place six years after the end of this one with a different pair of main characters. In the year 2023, the world has been completely changed due to tsunamis that have transformed the larger land masses into islands. Kathryn O’Malley, better […]

This week I got a couple of book orders (one made because I had a gift card and found something cheap; the other because I saw a book in a series I like was no longer available new on Amazon and wanted to get it in case it completely disappeared) and 3 review copies. So it was a pretty good week. But first, a little about what will be coming up… Yesterday I wrote up a review of Tsunami Blue […]

World’s Endby Joan D. Vinge284pp (Paperback)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 4/5LibraryThing Rating: 3.6/5Goodreads Rating: 3.51/5 World’s End is an indirect sequel to The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge. It explains what happened to the police officer BZ Gundhalinu after the end of The Snow Queen and ties into the events of its direct sequel The Summer Queen. There is also a fourth book set in this world, Tangled Up in Blue, which is a prequel about BZ Gundhalinu. The latter […]

The Gaslight Dogsby Karin Lowachee368pp (Paperback)My Rating: 6/10Amazon Rating: N/ALibraryThing Rating: 4/5Goodreads Rating: 3.83/5 The Gaslight Dogs is the newest novel by Karin Lowachee, author of a science fiction trilogy comprised of Warchild, Burndive and Cagebird. According to the author’s forum and a Twitter comment she made, there are two sequels to The Gaslight Dogs planned, although it sounds as if they are not yet under contract. This novel definitely feels incomplete on its own since there are still a […]