I picked up Melinda Snodgrass’s “The Edge of Reason” (2009) because she wrote one of my favorite Uhura classic Trek pro novels, and I like her writing. The Edge is a little uncomfortable in places but riveting throughout. It has a clever concept. Religions today use magic and Lucifer is using science to help save the world. For that, he needs a broom-up-his-butt cop in New Mexico who accidentally witnesses a battle between the two factions and rescues a young witch. The poor cop, a […]
Neil Gaiman kicks off my CBR7.
I’m so excited to be starting my third Cannonball Read! I can’t believe with my crazy life that I got so many books in last year. Here’s hoping to top that goal this year (and hopefully, by the end of 2015, I’ll be DONE with school). I have a few goals in mind: read the books I’ve never read on my shelf. Last year, I determined to buy no books until I had read them and decided that yes, I would like them to occupy […]
End of the line
I reviewed the first two books in this trilogy back for CBR IV, in 2012. I had decidedly mixed feelings about them, particularly the Magician King, although it left me hopeful for a more satisfying third and final book. In retrospect, they can’t have been that bad, because once I found out The Magician’s Land had been published, I reserved it at the library while it was still on order. So. For those who have are not aware of this series, Grossman’s books begin with […]
It ain’t easy being a ginger, or girls can kick ass, too.
It’s true. I’m not going to lie – I’ve read Robin McKinley’s The Hero & the Crown many, many times. I felt like I wanted (maybe needed is a better term?) to review a book I’m very familiar with for my inaugural Cannonball Read post. (If it helps, I just paid to have it added to my Kindle collection.) Aerin is the only child of Arlbeth, King of Damar. She is also the only child of that Witchwoman from the North, and as such is regarded […]