“Toto didn’t deserve that kind of trauma. He was so tiny.” Kevin Hearne’s Hounded (Book 1 of the Iron Druid Chronicles) was yet another discovery I made through John Scalzi’s Whatever; the short version of the Big Idea is that Atticus O’Sullivan is older than Jesus (sorry, them’s the shakes) and being hunted by an angry Irish god. Well, in the first book. Eventually, he ends up being chased by a Loki who’s convinced Ragnarok is just around the corner – and Atticus’ fault. Which […]
“I pulled out my submachine gun… On the barrel, pretty white letters spelled out PARTY STARTER.”
Gunmetal Magic is a story about Andrea, best friend to Kate Daniels aka The One the Series Is Named After. Goodreads summarizes the story thusly: “After being kicked out of the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, Andrea’s whole existence is in shambles. She tries to put herself back together by working for Cutting Edge, a small investigative firm owned by her best friend. When several shapeshifters working for Raphael Medrano—the male alpha of the Clan Bouda, and Andrea’s former lover—die unexpectedly at a […]
Written in Red, by Anne Bishop
Humans and Others have long held an uneasy truce. Most of the wild places are Other controlled, but humans have persevered and cities have grown. As part of the truce, and to stay close to the human innovations they have come to appreciate, the Others are given a “courtyard” in most cities, where they live by their laws and unwanted trespassers are usually listed as “special meat” the next morning at the butcher shop. On a stormy winter night, Meg arrives freezing and scared, and […]
A bird in a gilded cage
Oh, man. I really feel like I’ve been to the circus. A crazy, trippy sci-fi circus, but still. Enough to go around. I’ve heard Angela Carter’s name bandied about the contemporary British field/feminist literature field, and this work in particular, so I thought it would be good to know my field even better. The novel takes place in three parts, for the three major “stages” of the circus’s trip: London, St. Petersburg, and Siberia. In London, we become acquainted with Sophie Fevvers through journalist Jack […]