Category: Reviews

The Living Sword cover

Review: The Living Sword by Pemry Janes

Description (from Amazon.com) Eurik was found adrift by the san and raised by them. Though he had read much about the outside world, he’d never considered leaving home. Not until his teacher revealed what he had inherited from his parents: a living sword, a sentient blade of rare power . . . and with it,…
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Aestus: Book I: The City (book cover)

Review: Aestus: Book 1: The City by S. Z. Attwell

Description (from Amazon.com) An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. A society under attack. And a young solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city…if she doesn’t get herself killed first. When Jossey was ten, the creatures of the aboveground took her brother and left her…
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The Zoologists Guide to the Galaxy

Review: The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Arik Kershenbaum

Description (from Amazon.com) From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be…
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Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi

Review: Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi by Margaret E. Kenna

Description (from Amazon.com) Sixteen months on a small Greek island? Not the holiday of a lifetime, but the start of anthropologist Margaret E. Kenna’s involvement with the residents of Anafi and its migrant community in Athens. Greek Island Life gives a vivid and engaging account of research on Anafi in the 1960s, and is based…
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Paper Castles by B. Fox

Review: Paper Castles by B. Fox

Description (from Amazon.com) Foreclosures are hitting record highs; unemployment is skyrocketing, and the economy is in shambles. Equally broke and futureless, 28–year–old James Brooke, a graduate architect, coffee-addict, and self–described average nobody has returned to his small hometown in West Ohio. Torn between his fanciful dreams and the need to pay off bills, he struggles…
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Music Shall Untune the Sky (The Celwyn Series Book 2)

Review: Music Shall Untune the Sky by Lou Kemp

Description (from Amazon.com) When the battles begin, can anyone survive when magic meets magic? It is 1865 and three close friends; the immortal magician Celwyn, the automat Professor Xiau Kang, and Bartholomew, a scientist and widower from Sudan, set out on another adventure as they travel to Singapore to fetch the professor’s wife. Their private,…
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The Violins Played Before Junstan (The Celwyn Series Book 1)

Review: The Violins Played before Junstan by Lou Kemp

Description (from Amazon.com) PrequelSan Francisco, 1865. At first, the immortal peyote-eating magician Celwyn is hired to deliver an automat, Professor Kang, to a priest called Talos. Everything Talos told Celwyn was a lie, and by the time their ship, the Zelda, encounters a terrific storm in the Arctic Circle, Celwyn finds he must reconsider his allegiance. He…
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Stalin's Door by John St. Clair

Review: Stalin’s Door by John St. Clair

Description (from Amazon.com) In the dangerous time of Russia’s Great Terror, a knock on the door late at night could mean only one thing! Moscow, 1937. As mortal fear engulfs the capital city, a singular man cements his lethal grip of absolute power over an entire nation. Accusations, mass arrests, executions, and deportations become de…
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Review: Call Numbers by Syntell Smith

Description (from Amazon.com) Life is a book… and every person is a chapter. Everything’s looking up for Robin Walker. It’s 1994 in New York City, and he’s been transferred downtown to the 58th Street Branch Library. Ready to move up the ladder, Robin is excited about the opportunities that await him. But success, personal or…
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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Review: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Description (from Amazon.com) Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep…
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