This is a novel about whaling. You have to hand it to an author so willing to set out on a new book knowing with absolute certainty that they are definitely not going to write the best book on their chosen subject. Patrick Sumner is an Irish surgeon court-martialed from the British army and forced to settle for a position as the doctor aboard a whaling vessel. Hiding his secret shame from his employers and fellow crew-members, Sumner copes with his fall from grace through […]
More of that other Alice in Wonderland series I was reading… yeah I forgot about it too!
Ok so Phantoms of the North is book 6 in the Alice in Deadland series. I put these two books together, because they’re short, and their stories are quite similar. In Phantoms, everyone is safe and happy in Wonderland. The Homeland (the USA) is sending over people and equipment to start large scale farming operations. Things are going well. And then Alice and one of her buddies finds a man while they’re out on patrol. He’s beaten up and scared, and he tells them that […]
Fae Don’t Know Death
Grave Dance is the second book in the Alex Craft series and I’m definitely enjoying myself on this one. So far, I’m impressed enough to keep reading. Again, there’s no reinventing of the wheel, but the elements of Urban Fantasy are all well handled and the plot keeps ticking along at a very quick pace. In this book, Alex is asked to investigate a foot, or rather several feet, which has turned up after a flood. And then the plot takes off we follow breathlessly […]
Good. But ugh.
Don’t get me wrong, I like me a dystopian mind blow every now and again to make me feel good about my current situation, but guh-damn. I’ve got to read about a lot of unicorns and rainbows to cleanse my palette after this cluster of darkness. The Handmaid’s Tale is an American version of oppressive societies like North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or anywhere ISIS is in charge. With fundamentalist religious imagery, creepy sex scenes, and people displayed on hooks, I noped my way through this […]