The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge 448pp (Paperback) My Rating: 10/10 Amazon Rating: 4.5/5 LibraryThing Rating: 4.08/5 Goodreads Rating: 3.92/5 The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge won the Hugo Award in 1981 and was also nominated for a Nebula Award. This science fiction novel was followed by a shorter novel, World’s End, which is the story of what happened to BZ Gundhalinu after the first novel ended. The Summer Queen is the direct sequel to The Snow Queen […]

Busted Flushedited by George R. R. Martin464pp (Paperback)My Rating: 7.5/10Amazon Rating: 4/5LibraryThing Rating: 3.2/5Goodreads Rating: 3.56/5 Busted Flush is the second book in a new Wild Cards trilogy edited by George R.R. Martin, following Inside Straight (review). Suicide Kings, the third book in this set and the twentieth Wild Cards book, was released in hardcover last month. Even though I haven’t read any of the books other than this one and its predecessor, I found Inside Straight a decent starting […]

Ascendant Sunby Catherine Asaro384pp (Paperback)My Rating: 6/10Amazon Rating: 4/5LibraryThing Rating: 3.81/5Goodreads Rating: 3.9/5 Ascendant Sun is the fifth novel published in Catherine Asaro’s Saga of the Skolian Empire series. Currently, there are thirteen novels total in this science fiction series and chronologically Ascendant Sun comes after five other novels in the saga (it is not really sixth chronologically since there are three other novels following different characters set around the same time as this one). I would not recommend beginning […]

Gracelingby Kristin Cashore480pp (Paperback)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.29/5Goodreads Rating: 4.17/5 The YA fantasy Graceling is Kristin Cashore’s debut novel. Her second novel Fire, a loosely connected prequel set 35 years prior to Graceling, came out last year. Cashore does recommend reading Graceling first to avoid spoiling part of it, and even though I read these two books in reverse order, I can understand why since it would have taken me a lot longer to guess what was coming […]

The Better Part of Darknessby Kelly Gay416pp (Paperback)My Rating: 5/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.3/5Goodreads Rating: 4.46/5 The Better Part of Darkness is a debut novel written by Kelly Gay. The sequel to this urban fantasy, The Darkest Edge of Dawn, is supposed to be released in August 2010. Charlie Madigan works for Atlanta’s Integration Task Force, which monitors immigrants whether they are from this dimension or one of the two other dimensions discovered thirteen years before. Together with her partner […]

Sea of Windby Fuyumi Ono320pp (Paperback)My Rating: 7/10Amazon Rating: 5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.29/5Goodreads Rating: 4.28/5 Even though it takes place before events in Sea of Shadow (the first novel), Sea of Wind is the second book in The Twelve Kingdoms series by Japanese author Fuyumi Ono. Of the seven books in this young adult series based on Chinese folklore, three have been translated into English with the fourth translation due to be released in March 2010. Since I loved the anime […]