Archive for November, 2008
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Nobody’s Prize, by Esther Friesner
On Monday I reviewed Temping Fate and promised that later this week there would be a review of the sequel to Nobody’s Princess. Ta-da; here it is. Esther Friesner is still everything I said she was on Monday; the first book of these two (and it appears that there will only be two, total) is [...]
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The King of Attolia (book 3), by Megan Whalen Turner
I strongly suspect that a few people who read my reviews have been waiting for this review for a long time. It’s the third and, so far, final book in the Attolia sequence; the first is the Newbery Honor Book The Thief and the second is The Queen of Attolia. Ms. Turner has also written [...]
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Temping Fate, by Esther Friesner
Esther Friesner is all over the place in speculative fiction. She writes short stories and novels; she edits anthologies, and has been involved in different conventions and societies. A Vassar and Yale graduate, she used to teach Spanish at the latter before she started writing full-time. Ms. Friesner has won two Nebula Awards, both for [...]
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Gale Force (Weather Wardens, book 7), by Rachel Caine
I had dinner with Rachel Caine a couple weeks ago! She was in town (well, in Youngstown) to do a couple presentations on vampires through history at the library down there; apparently the presentations were awfully well-attended, and at some point she means to put up a Power Point version of it on her website. [...]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Melting Stones, by Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce . . . I suspect that nearly everyone reading this blog (with the exception of my father — hi, Dad!) will have at least a passing familiarity with the name. I, of course, have read pretty much everything she’s published (at least all the novels). Why? Because when I started reading children’s fantasy, [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Summer Country, by James Hetley
I don’t know much about James Hetley, but I do know that I found his online presence on Livejournal to be interesting enough to buy his books. He’s written four of them, published by Ace, in two distinct series; this is the first novel in one of those series. According to his website, he’s an [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Evernight (book 1), by Claudia Gray
[If you are a U.S. citizen and registered voter, please remember to vote today, if you haven't already! -S.] Claudia Gray is not the author’s real name, and she makes no bones about it on her website. If one reads the copyright page of Evernight, one will discover Ms. Gray’s real name, so it isn’t [...]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Poltergeist (Greywalker, book 2), by Kat Richardson
Sometime a few weeks ago, I reviewed the first book in this series; the author describes her books as a combination of spec-fic and mystery/crime. I suppose that’s accurate, although I’d say moreso for this book than the previous one. Anyway, Ms. Richardson likes ferrets and Broadway show tunes (I’m guessing, by her encyclopedic knowledge [...]