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BADGE, BOOK, AND CANDLE (BOOKBURNERS #1) by Max Gladstone – Review

BADGE, BOOK, AND CANDLE (BOOKBURNERS #1) by Max Gladstone – Review
Posted September 17, 2015 by Tammy in 3 1/2 stars, Reviews / 15 Comments

The nitty-gritty: A great start to an exciting new venture in storytelling, all wrapped up in a compact urban fantasy package. She’d met people on this very train who told her with overwhelming conviction that they were the product of genetic experimentation by the United States government using alien DNA, and they’d built a prototype […]

BLOOD AND SALT by Kim Liggett – Review

BLOOD AND SALT by Kim Liggett – Review
Posted September 11, 2015 by Tammy in 3 1/2 stars, Reviews / 20 Comments

The nitty-gritty: An atmospheric and stylish tale of family secrets written in blood, with elements of horror that weren’t quite scary enough for me. “Which way?” he asked as we stood in the center of the barren patch of earth. As if answering his question, the breeze whipped through the field, revealing a path and […]

DRAGON COAST by Greg van Eekhout – Review

DRAGON COAST by Greg van Eekhout – Review
Posted September 8, 2015 by Tammy in 5 stars, Reviews / 7 Comments

The nitty-gritty: A fantastic end to a unique and magical story, and a world that I didn’t want to leave behind. Sam lived in a world of bones. He found them throughout the dragon, wherever he walked, embedded in the tissues lining every artery, every organ, every cavity, like fossils in rock. The bones came […]

SUPERSYMMETRY by David Walton – Review

SUPERSYMMETRY by David Walton – Review
Posted September 6, 2015 by Tammy in 4 stars, Reviews / 8 Comments

The nitty-gritty: A high-octane, high-tech romp through time and space, with lots of family drama and complex characters to root for. Simply put, Supersymmetry was Superfun! Well, I did it again. I read the second book in a series FIRST. But in defense of my decision to do so, I was told that Supersymmetry would […]

UPDRAFT by Fran Wilde – Review

UPDRAFT by Fran Wilde – Review
Posted August 30, 2015 by Tammy in 4 stars, Reviews / 14 Comments

The nitty-gritty: A unique and many-layered world that left me craving more world-building details, but contained some of the coolest fantasy elements I’ve read in a long time. We had so many ways to describe different types of wind. Lifts. Crosses. Constants. Gaps. I might one day hear them all. Something low and large echoed […]