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5 Ways To Know if Book Reviews Are Fake

By Julie Butcher Fedynich · Comments (7)
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

5 Ways To Know if Book Reviews Are Fake
By Julie Butcher-Fedynich

book reviews

Finding books you’ll love is difficult enough. With the current state of the economy, a lot of us need to pinch our pennies hard enough to make them scream. Unfortunately, this lack of funds makes us extremely cranky when we buy a book, and suffer the disappointment of poor writing, or the ending we hate. Since our friends are in the same boat money-wise, they don’t always have recommendations on what to buy.
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Categories : Julie Butcher-Fedynich, On Writing
Tags : book reviews, Fake Book Reviews

Mercedes Thomson: Not Your Typical Supernatural Heroine

By Trish Day · Comments (0)
Monday, August 24th, 2009

Moon Called
Mercedes Thompson: Not Your Typical Supernatural Heroine

Author: Patricia Briggs
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
ISBN: 9780441013814


So what’s the deal with the Mercy Thompson novels? What’s so special about yet another *groan* heroine living among the creatures of the night? Initially, when you look at the cover of these novels, they’re often what many have come to expect from urban fantasy and paranormal romances. Depending on which cover you happen upon it may be a naïve-looking waif of a girl, her hips thrust forward slightly and with some kind of paw print tattoo on her stomach (Moon Called.) In another you might see a heavily tattooed, no-nonsense badass, her figure bathed in the light of the moon. The woman on this cover is holding a wrench in her hands and gives the impression of controlled stillness. She almost appears to be silently daring something to attack her, waiting in anticipation to clobber anything that gets too close (Bone Crossed.) So which is it? The naïve, wide-eyed waif, those eyes of hers finally opened to the supernatural world around her or the badass chick waving around automotive repair tools? Read More→

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Categories : Authors, Obscuria
Tags : book reviews, Mercy Thompson, Patricia Briggs, sci-fi, urban fantasy

The Wall of America by Thomas Disch

By John Winn · Comments (0)
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The Wall of America
Author: Thomas Disch
Publisher: Tachyon Books
ISBN-10: 1892391821
ISBN-13: 978-1892391827
Rating: 8/10

sci-fi, science fiction, sci-fi book reviews, hard sci-fi
The late Thomas Disch may not be a household name. Yet for over 40 years, he transformed the landscape of science fiction, writing edgy, avant-garde fiction that ranged from horror (“The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft”, for which he received a Hugo Award) to controversial novels tackling difficult subjects such as genocide, religion, and the afterlife. Nearly a year to the day that the 68 year old took his own life, a new anthology of selected stories has been released-and what it reveals is a fertile mind as complex as it was troubled. Read More→

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Categories : Reviews: Books, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Movie and Book Reviews
Tags : book reviews, sci-fi, Thomas Disch

Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker

By John Winn · Comments (0)
Friday, February 13th, 2009

Mathematicians in Love
Author: Rudy Rucker
Publisher: Tor
ISBN-10: 0765320398
ISBN-13: 978-0765320391
Rating: 8/10

sci-fi, science fiction, book review, Rudy Rucker
We all know romance works in mysterious ways. Some people are attracted to slobs, others neat-freaks. Still others spend entire lifetimes pining for love-outside the bedroom as well as inside. But what would happen if we could deliberately manipulate the fabric of the universe so that our crush or childhood sweetheart fell in love with us? That is the crux of Rudy Rucker’s novel “Mathematicians in Love”, a zany middlebrow rollercoaster that inspires untold amounts of laughter-and serious thought, of course.
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Tags : book reviews, Mathematicians in Love, Rudy Rucker, science fiction

Iron Kissed - A Mercy Thompson Novel - Book 3

By John Winn · Comments (0)
Monday, December 15th, 2008

Iron Kissed
A Mercy Thompson Novel
Book 3 - Review
by Patricia Briggs
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Ace
ISBN-10: 0441015662
ISBN-13: 978-0441015665

Trilogies or any series in general, are fickle creatures. Ask anyone, and they all have different opinions of them. ‘I liked the original, but I hated the second book’ one person might say. ‘I hated the original, but I loved so and so in the final novel’. And inevitably, everyone seems to hate the sequels. While the Mercy Thompson series has matured over the past three years, with “Iron Kissed”, author Patricia Briggs proves that the paranormal action-fantasy still has heart-not to mention guts. And though the third book in the series finds Mercy coming to terms with new challenges in her life, she still finds herself sleuthing around in Washington State, only this time the mystery is much more personal than she’d like to admit.
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Tags : book reviews, Iron Kissed, Mercy Thompson, Patricia Briggs

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