Tag: Tor Books

STARLING HOUSE by Alix E. Harrow – Review

STARLING HOUSE by Alix E. Harrow – Review
Posted October 6, 2023 by Tammy in 4 stars, Reviews / 18 Comments

The nitty-gritty: An atmospheric, eerie tale with a fairy tale vibe, Starling House will delight readers with its fantastical mysteries, subtle romance and heartfelt friendships. “It’s something about the way the shadows fell in Eden, after Eleanor died. It’s the way everything soured: the river ran darker and the clouds hung lower; rich coal seams […]

STARTER VILLAIN by John Scalzi – Review

STARTER VILLAIN by John Scalzi – Review
Posted September 14, 2023 by Tammy in 4 stars, Reviews / 40 Comments

The nitty-gritty: Supervillains are super fun in this laugh-out-loud tale with sentient cats and dolphins, a secret lair and plenty of the author’s trademark social commentary. Scalzi takes on supervillains—sort of—in his latest comedic offering, and boy was this a bunch of fun. I think if I’d read this blind without knowing who the author […]

THORNHEDGE by T. Kingfisher – Review

THORNHEDGE by T. Kingfisher – Review
Posted August 4, 2023 by Tammy in 5 stars, Reviews / 34 Comments

The nitty-gritty: Sweet, emotional and at times heartbreaking, Thornhedge is a perfect, feel-good fairy tale. “You could not hate a child—only a monster would hate a child—but the child was a monster in the shape of a child, an elfin creature whose power was only contained by her youth and her unfamiliarity with the world.” […]

FRACTAL NOISE by Christopher Paolini – Review

FRACTAL NOISE by Christopher Paolini – Review
Posted June 16, 2023 by Tammy in 4 stars, Reviews / 22 Comments

The nitty-gritty: Four scientists undertake a dangerous mission to uncover the mysteries of a curious hole, in Christopher Paolini’s tense survival thriller. Sometimes going into a book with no expectations is a good thing, and that was my experience reading Fractal Noise, a prequel of sorts to Paolini’s To Sleep In a Sea of Stars. […]

THE BOOK EATERS by Sunyi Dean – Review

THE BOOK EATERS by Sunyi Dean – Review
Posted August 8, 2022 by Tammy in 4 1/2 stars, Reviews / 46 Comments

The nitty-gritty: The Book Eaters is a delicious, dark surprise, strange and compelling and utterly original. “A moment of perverse beauty: one child holding another, with Cai’s mouth on the baby’s ear. Almost a kiss, almost a cuddle. It was love and it was death and Devon thought that, for her, those things had become […]

JUST LIKE HOME by Sarah Gailey – Review

JUST LIKE HOME by Sarah Gailey – Review
Posted July 25, 2022 by Tammy in 4 stars, Reviews / 26 Comments

The nitty-gritty: Gailey’s latest is delightfully unsettling, with unexpected twists, dangerous characters and ominous secrets. “The outside of Vera was shaped like the inside of this house. This was the house her father had built with his two strong hands. This was the goldfish tank where she’d grown to the size she would always be, […]

NETTLE & BONE by T. Kingfisher – Review

NETTLE & BONE by T. Kingfisher – Review
Posted April 25, 2022 by Tammy in 4 1/2 stars, Reviews / 34 Comments

The nitty-gritty: A hilarious fairy tale, both dark and light, full T. Kingfisher’s trademark quirky and lovable characters. The bone dog came alive at dusk. It was not quite completed, but it was close. She was bent over the left front paw when the skull’s jaws yawned open and it stretched as if waking from […]