My favorite companion wrote a book! Ok, so she used a pseudonym, but we all know it’s River Song. She’s a hard boiled detective for a hard boiled time, with all the sass and brass and everything you expect from her. Melody has been hired by movie star Rock Railton, who believes that he is to be killed. Rock mentions the “kiss of the Angel,” so Melody is definitely in. She meets studio owner Max Kliener at a press party, and he says he can make her a […]
An 11th Doctor Compendium
Multiple authors take on the Siege of Trenzalore. The doctor protected Trenzalore for 900 years from all of his enemies – and from some of his friends. He knew he would die on Trenzalore, he just didn’t know when or how. This book contains four of the stories that happened during those 900 years: “Let it Snow;” “An Apple a Day;” “Strangers in the Outland;” and “The Dreaming.” They tell the tales of attacks by Autons, the Krynoids, the Mara, and the Ice Warriors. The […]
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
This book is 14 years old, I am, as ever, late to the party. I am also a latecomer to Terry Pratchett (still haven’t read any of the big series, but I’ve read a few others and they’re great), but I’m learning. The combination of Pratchett and Gaiman is brilliant, and it’s a shame they haven’t done more together. So, anyway, satan’s son is born in Oxfordshire. There’s a mix up at the hospital, and the little anti-christ goes home with the wrong family. He’s […]
Life goes on after a global disaster … or does it?
While a lot of readers have used the word “subtle” to describe Perrotta’s book, I think it is a bit too kind. Yes, The Leftovers has an intriguing plot—the world has undergone a “Rapture” of a sorts, with millions of men, women and children, even babies, suddenly disappearing in front of their families, friends, in classrooms, at the workplace, driving their cars, taking showers, and leaving no clue as to what happened to them. The real story is what happens to those left behind, or […]