When I change, I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth, and it goes through me with crazy wriggling impatience . . . I’m twisted, torn, churned, throttled—then rushed through a blind chicane into ludicrous power . . . A heel settles. A last canine hurries through. A shoulder blade […]
Category: Book Review
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The tale of a youth whose features, year after year, retain the same appearance of innocent beauty while the shame of his abhorrent vices becomes mirrored on the features of his portrait. (Summary from Goodreads) I have been wanting to expand my reading of the classics and I thought I would start with The Picture […]
The Crow by James O’Barr
Eric has returned from the dead, driven only by hate and the need to wreak revenge on those who killed him and raped and then killed his beloved Shelly. (summary from Goodreads) I received The Crow as a Christmas gift in 1994 after falling in love with the movie earlier that year. This is […]
Dark Hollow by Brian Keene
Book Synopsis Something very strange is happening in LeHorn’s Hollow… Eerie, piping music is heard late at night, and mysterious fires have been spotted deep in the woods. Women are vanishing without a trace overnight, leaving behind husbands and families. When up-and-coming novelist Adam Senft stumbles upon an unearthly scene, it plunges him and […]
Book Review: Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Full Dark, No Stars is the first short story collection of Stephen King’s I have ever read. Actually I would not call it a short story collection, more of a novella collection as there are four stories, each ranging from about 80 to 100 pages. This book has one of the most descriptive titles I […]
Book Review: Liar’s Blade by Tim Pratt
Liar’s Blade Author: Tim Pratt Publisher: Paizo Publishing With strength, wit, rakish charm, and a talking sword named Hrym, Rodrick has all the makings of a classic hero – except for the conscience. Instead, he and Hrym live a high life as scoundrels, pulling cons and parting the weak from their gold. When a mysterious woman […]
Kenobi by John Jackson Miller
The Republic has fallen. Sith Lords rule the galaxy. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi has lost everything . . . Everything but hope. Tatooine—a harsh desert world where farmers toil in the heat of two suns while trying to protect themselves and their loved ones from the marauding Tusken Raiders. A backwater planet on […]
The GODBORN by Paul S. Kemp
In the 2nd book of the multi-author Sundering series launched by New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore, the shadow legacy of Erevis Cale lives on even as his old foe Mephistopheles seeks to stamp it out at any cost. Cale’s son Vasen—unmoored in time by the god Mask—has thus far been shielded from the archdevil’s dark […]
False Covenant by Ari Marmell
False Covenant (A Widdershins Adventure, Book 2) Author: Ari Marmell Publisher: Pyr Release Date: June 26, 2012 (Available now at Amazon.com) Format: Hardcover and ebook Length: 250 pages Book Description: A creature of the other world, an unnatural entity bent on chaos and carnage, has come to stalk the nighttime streets of the Galicien city […]
Spinner of Lies by Bruce Cordell
Memories of his past incarnations haunt Demascus, even as he searches for stolen portraits that contain the trapped souls of demigods. Meanwhile, drow creep beneath the city of Airspur, intent on precipitating war between Akanûl and a rival nation. As Demascus attempts to win freedom from the ghost of his murdered lover, he agrees to […]
