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Book Review: Monster by A. Lee Martinez

Monster
A. Lee Martinez
Orbit, 2009
ISBN 0316041262
Hardcover (ARC)
I am not certain if the following could be called a review of a book or a reaction to a book. Until opening this book, the assumption was, rather naively I now realize, that after over a half century of reading, I had read every genre of [...]

June 30, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Guest Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Last Rituals
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir; translated from Icelandic by Bernard Scudder
HarperCollins, 2007
Originally published in Iceland by Veröld Publishing
ISBN 9780061143373
Trade Paperback.
Matthew beat Thóra to the photograph. He looked at it without a flicker of emotion, then handed it to her. “It’s quite disgusting,†he said as she took it.

“Disgusting†was not a strong enough word [...]

June 19, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Guest Reviews  No Comments

Review: A Trace of Smoke

A Trace of Smoke
Rebecca Cantrell
Forge, 2009
ISBN 0765320444
Hardcover
Trade Paperback to be released 1/19/10 by Forge
Few novels that I pick up hold my attention beyond the first several chapters.  What a pleasure to read A TRACE OF SMOKE by Rebecca Cantrell during the holiday hiatus.  Cantrell sets her historical suspense/mystery in Berlin on the eve of Germany’s [...]

January 18, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Guest Reviews  No Comments