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Takeover: Galaxy's Edge Book Review by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole

Takeover brings us back to where it all began, the dusty world of Kublar. Except now, after Chhun’s victory over Goth Sullus on Utopion, everything is different. In the years since the Battle of Kublar, the Kublarens have been integrated into the galactic economy, built up glittering cities, and

The Savage Wars: Galaxy's Edge by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Book Review

Begun, the Savage Wars have. Jason Anspach and Nick Cole take us back to the beginning of the Legion. To those desperate battles that rent the galaxy in twain, yet at the same time also called forth humanity’s greatest heroes. And it is very much humanity versus… something else.

White Winter by D. J. Bodden Book Review

The Balance is everything. It is what enables vampires and werewolves and far stranger things to co-exist with ordinary people, after a fashion. But after Jonas thwarts an attempt by the Order to take control of the Agency, the supernatural law enforcement that maintains the Balance, it becomes clear that

Viridian Gate Online: Nomad Soul by D. J. Bodden and James Hunter Book Review

What happens when the AIs you create to run the world’s first VR MMORPG are method actors who take their roles entirely too seriously? Alan Campbell, and perhaps the rest of the world, is about to find out. LitRPG is a hot genre at present. Ernest Cline’s Ready

Black Fall by D. J. Bodden Book Review

Teenaged vampire stories aren’t my thing. Fortunately, Black Fall [Amazon link] isn’t really a teenaged vampire story. Oh sure, you have awkward high school romance and family drama, but you also have world-weary vigilantes, self-deprecating werewolves, and literal information gathering spooks. While in general I try to avoid

Cascade: The Genesis Program Book 1 by Jeremy Spires Book Review

Cascade: The Genesis Program Book 1 [Amazon link] is an apocalyptic novel, a form of American popular culture that has been with us at least since the 1930s. The form of the end of the world takes is surprisingly mutable, but the underlying narrative structure is not. It involves a

A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes Book Review

With my re-posting of John J. Reilly’s commentary on Summorum Pontificum yesterday, it seemed like a good time to review this book I read a couple of years ago. Evelyn Waugh is one of the most famous, perhaps the most famous English novelist of the twentieth century. Brideshead is