Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Tales of the Captain Duke is a series of four short books, novella style, by Rebecca Diem. I read them consecutively on two evenings and thoroughly enjoyed them. Tales of the Captain Duke by Rebecca Diem 1. The Stowaway Debutante
Ichor Well is book 3, and the Calderan Problem book 4, of the highly enjoyable steampunkish Free-Wrench series by Joseph R Lallo. So enjoyable, I started reading some of his other series. Ichor Well (Free-Wrench #3) Ever since Nita Graus
SkyKeep is book 2 of the highly enjoyable steampunkish airship fantasy series by Joseph R Lallo. I may have got the first as a freebie, but I’m happy to purchase the rest of them. The standard is excellent. SkyKeep (Free-Wrench
Free-Wrench has been on my TBR since 2016, and I kept meaning to read it. What a treat this turned out to be! Even better, it’s the first in a series of six. I seem to have the second on
Zelda Pryce is the only book-related Z title I have for the Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge this year. With three in the series, I’m hoping it’s good enough to supply me for the next two years, as well. The Razor’s
Monstrous Devices was a net-galley book from the publisher. I got it very close to the publication date listed, although it seems to have been published earlier, maybe in different formats, or it’s been picked up by a bigger publisher.
Grimm, Grit, and Gasoline was one of Rhonda Parrish’s anthologies that I didn’t try to enter, because I didn’t understand what she was looking for. So I read it to find out. I also managed to snag a pre-publication copy
Forged in Blood is the finale of the Emperor’s Edge series featuring Amaranthe and her gang of outlaws who are fighting to free the Emperor from the people who would overthrow him. The assassin Sicarius is one of the gang,
Equus was a book I received from LibraryThing, as part of their first reads initiative. It is nothing to do with Equus the play. But it is Latin for ‘horse’. Equus Ed. by Rhonda Parrish There’s always something magical about
The Whispering Skull is book 2 in the Lockwood & Co series by Jonathan Stroud. You may remember I was swept away by The Screaming Staircase in December. I rated it one of my top reads of 2016. The Blurb In the
This was the Great Middle Grade Reads group’s Book of the Month for March, and I read it in two sittings over Easter, with a paperback from my library. The Blurb (from Goodreads) “She’s the most powerful steam engine in
T is for Turgonia, the main city in Lindsay Buroker’s fabulous Emperor’s Edge series. Since it’s Saturday, it’s book review day, but since it’s the A to Z, I have to focus on world-building. My review is of Conspiracy, book
The third book in the Emperor’s Edge series opens with a kidnapping. Well, it actually opens with Maldynado trying to set Amaranthe up with a man, while they are viewing the arena for the annual Games, but that’s just Maldynado
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream revisioned as a steampunk tale? You must be kidding. That was roughly my reaction when I saw this as part of a steampunk/fantasy bundle from Storybundle.com, a wonderful way of getting great ebooks in a
I don’t know whether I told you how much I loved Lindsay Buroker’s Flash Gold series. I know I told you I liked the first in her Emperor’s Edge series a lot. A whole lot. I love it, even more