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Five Maidens on the Pentagram by J. Manfred Weichsel Book Review

Five Maidens on the Pentagram [Amazon link] is another brutally funny and devilishly inappropriate satire from J. Manfred Weichsel. I saw another review that described Weichsel’s style as “shoot the hostages”. Since I can’t phrase it any better than that, I will shamelessly steal it. Absolutely no one

Wintersteel by Will Wight up for pre-order

Will Wight’s latest entry in the Cradle series, Wintersteel, is up for pre-order in both ebook and audiobook formats today. [Amazon links] I will admit that I wasn’t really sold on the audiobook until I heard Travis Baldree’s narration for Uncrowned, which was an absolute blast. My

Book Recommendations for a Nine Year Old

I was recently asked by a friend for book recommendations for a nine year old with a middle school reading level. No sex, but some violence. Series are nice. I can help with that! I thought it would be an interesting cross-section of American juvenile adventure fiction over the last

The Last Archon: Atlantean Knights Book 1 by Richard Watts Book Review

Richard Watt’s The Last Archon [Silver Empire affiliate link] offers us the Heroes Unleashed version of a classic tale: a grumpy old guy and his impetuous protege. Together, they clean up the streets of Atlanta. Then Watt adds in a pretty young girl with the gift of prophecy, a

Clock's Watch II: Daughters of the Black Moon by Michael Reyes Book Review

When I reviewed the first volume of Clock’s Watch, I said that I looked forward to seeing what kind of trouble Jerry Clock was going to get himself into in the future. Now I have seen [Amazon link], and I am both fascinated and horrified. This is the second

Timothy Zahn interviews with The Portalist

Timothy Zahn has a recent interview with The Portalist, advertising for his newly released book Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising [Amazon affiliate link]. I read this interview in a hermeneutic of continuity with the series of Facebook posts Zahn made reminiscing on his journey through the world of Star Wars book

La Danza de la Muerta by Donald Uitvlugt Book Review

Donald Uitvlugt describes this collection as haiku short stories: small stories with big impact. I like reading, and reviewing, short story collections, but this one is so exceptionally compact that I will have to strive to match it by not writing a review longer than one of the stories in