This is a little bit like “Pleasantville” (or the Stepford Wives) meets “The XFiles” plus a police procedural with a touch of Horror. Hard to classify. Mona Bright is a troubled ex-cop who inherits her long dead mother’s home in Wink, New Mexico. She doesn’t know much about her mom – mental illness, suicide, not much more. Mom died a long time ago and the house only reverted to Mona after her fathers death. Turns out, that her mom used to work at the quantum research […]
Alternative Victorian London with Reptilian Royalty
Let’s see… Steampunk, alternate Victorian London, Reptilian Royalty, diabolical Anarchists . What’s not to like. “The Bookman” is a terrorist who uses exploding books as weapons. Our hero is “The Orphan” who has lost his love to an explosion set off the Bookman at a crowded launch of a space probe to Mars. In his grief, the Orphan is determined to find out the truth about his love’s death and to find out who the Bookman is. His quest takes him into the heart […]
An Oldie But Goodie…Vampire Tale
This is one of my old favorites – just reread it so I thought I would write a review. “Blood Price” is the first of the “Blood Books”series. I would recommend them all – they form a good story arc. If you want to keep on going, Tanya Huff has follow on stories in the “Smoke and Ashes” series that I would also recommend. This book falls into the category of “urban fantasy” but it is an early example of the genre as it was written […]
Station Eleven: Clever Post Apocalyptic Tale
There have been so many post apocalyptic novels out there that I now tend to avoid them. It’s become such an overused trope – right up there with vampires and zombies and…well you get the idea. However this one seemed special so I took a chance. Worth it. The story starts out just before the onset of the apocalypse ( “The Georgia Flu) with the sudden death of an aging Hollywood actor one snowy night while he is playing “King Lear”. An EMT in […]