This tenth volume in the Arcane Society series finally gets us up close and personal with Fallon Jones, head of the J&J investigative agency. Fallon is a chaos theory talent — he sees order in chaos, connections where none seem to exist, and some think that makes him a bit of a conspiracy nut. But […]
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Booke Review: Family Skulls
Sixteen-year-old Seth Quitman has a problem: No one will help him. At all. For any reason. You literally wouldn’t give him the time of day, because that would be helping. If he can’t do it alone, he can’t do it at all. Seth’s is only the latest generation to inherit this curse, which has passed […]
Short Story Review and Three-Question Interview: Spidersong by Alex Shvartsman
I must confess that I read very little “flash” fiction (short stories under a thousand words), so I don’t consider myself an expert on the subject. All I know is that I found Spidersong by Alex Shvartsman be satisfyingly creepy. The spiders are coming, but with the adults chattering endlessly, the children cannot hear the […]
Short Story Review and Three-Question Interview: Twelvers by Leah Cypess
If you’ve ever read “The Happiest Baby on the Block,” then you’ve probably heard of the first three months of a baby’s life being referred to as “the missing fourth trimester.” Some theorize that with greater intelligence and greater head size, our babies come out a little too early, compared to other animals whose babies […]
Short Story Review and Three-Question Interview: Movement by Nancy Fulda
If I were given only one word to describe “Movement” by Nancy Fulda, I would choose beautiful. I have more words, and will do my best to use them well, but I wonder if any can do as much justice to the story as the one. Hannah is an unusual character, suffering from what specialists […]
Short Story Review and Three-Question Interview: The Sighted Watchmaker by Vylar Kaftan
Science fiction, in its full glory, teases our imagination and asks us to question the very nature of ourselves and our universe. The Sighted Watchmaker, by Vylar Kaftan, is such a story. Umos isn’t a maker. Or at least, he doesn’t think he is. The makers abandoned him, and now he must fulfill their desires […]
Book Review: Midnight Crystal
Midnight Crystal represents the final installment in the Burning Lamp Trilogy, which covers all of Jayne Ann Krentz’s time periods and aliases. In each book, a descendent of Nicolas Winters, who did alchemical experiments on genetic code, is gifted with multiple talents that seem to be driving him insane. Only with the help of the […]
Book Review: Insatiable
The writer for a soap opera is told that they’re going vampire in order to compete against other shows using the same concept. She hates vampire-mania, and doesn’t believe in vampires, but before long she finds herself introduced to the Prince of Darkness himself — the son of Dracula. I enjoyed this book and found […]
Review and Author Interview: Flower Child by Sheila Deeth
Flower Child paints a beautiful picture of little souls growing in a flower garden until they are ripe and ready to live. But what if no one comes to claim a soul? What happens to the unborn child that never was? Megan is a mother whose first pregnancy ended in miscarriage, so she was never […]
Book Review: The Dark Highlander
Daegus McKelter broke an oath — he used the sacred stones that allowed him to move through time for personal reasons, to save his twin brother’s life. Now, he is cursed with the spirits of 13 evil druids who want to take him over. Chloe is an antiquities expert who loves all things old and […]