Archive for September, 2008
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Summon the Keeper, by Tanya Huff
Tanya Huff, whose “Smoke” series I reviewed here, here, and here, is one of the more prolific Canadian sf/fantasy writers. Her first novels were published back in 1989, and I’ve been reading her books, mostly when they come out new, since 1995 or so. She’s probably most famous for the “Blood” series which was adapted [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer, book 1), by Karen Chance
Karen Chance lives in Orlando, FL, and other than that, the only thing I’ve gleaned from her website is that she taught English in Hong Kong for two years. She has written, so far, four novels in the Cassandra Palmer sequence; one in a new series starting shortly about an entirely insane dhampir; and several [...]
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
The Golem’s Eye (Book 2 of the Bartimaeus Trilogy), by Jonathan Stroud
I reviewed book 1 (The Amulet of Samarkand, here) a long time ago; I have to admit, my main deterrent from reading further volumes was the length. Book 2 is 562 pages long, in my edition (American hardback). I’d somehow forgotten that they actually read quite quickly; I finished it in a few hours, rather [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
The Crow (Book 3 of Pellinor), by Allison Croggon
Some months ago I reviewed the first two books of this series; those reviews can be found here and here. Ms. Croggon is an Australian award-winning poet and author; her husband, Daniel Keene, is apparently an award-winning playwright whose plays have recently been translated into France and performed extensively there. The books in this series [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Untimely power outage
We here at Someone’s Read it Already have experienced a power outage; those who watched the Sunday Evening Browns vs. Steelers game will be unsurprised by this. (As are all Ohio residents.) We do promise that we’ll post today’s review this evening (after Stephanie gets off work) and tomorrow’s review at its regularly scheduled time.
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
The Safe-Keeper’s Secret, by Sharon Shinn
[Happy birthday to me . . . and Ann Marie!] Sharon Shinn is a St. Louis-based writer (I think), a graduate of Northwestern, and in the same writers’ group as Laurell K. Hamilton. They’re nothing alike, by the way. She’s published a great deal of books, ranging from the vaguely SF futuristic fantasy series starting [...]
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Key of Valor, by Nora Roberts
This novel, the sequel to Tuesday’s novel, is the third and final in the series (well, trilogy); that most likely means that there will not be any Nora Roberts reviews for a while. (Or at least until I go buy a few more.) However, Nora Roberts is in general such a sterling example of the [...]
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Here There Be Dragons, by James A. Owen
James A. Owen works out of the Coppervale Studio on Arizona; he apparently was primarily one who produced (wrote and drew) comic books, including a successful series that he self-published in the nineties. Here There Be Dragons is not his first novel, but it’s apparently his first YA novel, and the first published by a [...]
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Key of Knowledge, by Nora Roberts
This novel is the second in her Key trilogy; I reviewed the first one here. Yes, they’re romance novels; paranormal romance novels, to be precise. Yes, it’s that Nora Roberts; the one who’s almost constantly on the New York Times Bestsellers List; she’s published well over a hundred novels to date. It’s hard to find [...]
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
In the Belly of the Bloodhound (Jacky Faber Chronicles, book 4), by L. A. Meyer
Being that this is the fourth book in the series (the other titles being Bloody Jack, Curse of the Blue Tattoo, and Under the Jolly Roger), there’s not very much left for me to tell about Louis A. Meyer, writer and artist, or the stories in general. It is, however, worth noting that My Bonny [...]