THE TRANSFERENCE ENGINE did a lot of things right with its Steampunk inspired machinery, and its eccentric heroine with a big heart. The necromancy aspect was a definite hook for me, and Julia Verne St. John’s writing style fit the alternate 1830s London time period. The area in which this book didn’t perform was unfortunately […]
I’m going to keep this one short and simple. A couple years ago, I tried to read the first installment of Nelson’s GRIMM AGENCY series, Free Agent. It did not go well: “She didn’t look like a princess. She looked like a college intern for a radio station. Five foot three, strawberry blonde, and a […]
DNF at 15% The world of THE COURIER is a future dystopian version of a combined San Francisco and Los Angeles (I think), where space is presumably at a premium, b/c people are building up instead of out. Our MC (Kris) is a courier—she delivers packages on a motorcycle while wearing kick-ass, high tech riding […]
I don’t know if I made an assumption based on the title ‘THE GLITTERING COURT’ and fantasy being listed as the primary genre, or if I saw something somewhere that said “Fae,” OR if I just desperately wanted this book to be about Fae, but regardless of what led me to my conclusion, what you […]