The Devourers. As I am getting to this review long after the book club discussion, I will be brief. I am not usually a fan of werewolf stories. I find the mythology tedious. Men are beasts, blah blah blah. This version is at least set in somewhere different, India, and rotates around a very strong woman in unfortunate circumstances. There are two primary stories, one told in the present with Alok the professor and one told in the past with Cyra that prostitute/mother. The book […]
A life lived beyond expectations.
A Closed and Common Orbit This is the second novel by Becky Chambers. The first one reads like Serenity fan fiction (in a good way) and I highly recommend it. This book is a little more original in both plot and character development which is a nice change. This book follows the A.I. from the first book as she leaves the ship in a highly illegal android body, a new name, Lovey, and with no memory of who she was before the catastrophe that occurred […]
Clouds of Witness
“But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues” – Dorothy Sayers Lord Peter Whimsey has abandoned dismal London for the sights and sounds of Corsica. He is relaxed and feeling good when he spots a disturbing headline. His brother, the Duke of Denver, has been arrested for muuurdeeerrrr. He has to hop a biplane home (which is just such fabulous imagery) to rescue the family. Once home he is confronted with the icy reserve of upper crust houseguests, his […]
Even Idiots Occasionally Speak the Truth Accidentally.
Whose Body? I discovered Dorothy L. Sayers a few years ago but I have only read a few of her mysteries and all out of order. For this year’s Cannonball, I’m going to attempt to read them all. It’s a bit challenging since the books were originally published during the 1920s. They are popular enough to be easily available in print and ebooks. However my local library doesn’t stock all of them and this is going to get expensive. Luckily like even the worst […]