A series of steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
2018 Hugo Award Finalist – Best Novelette Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine #124, January 2017 I really enjoyed this novelette/short story,...
24 June 2018
Anatomy of a scanal by Sarah Vaughan
Told from a variety of point of views, and interspersed with flashbacks this book starts off with an affair that turns...
24 June 2018
The language of power by Rosemary Kirstein
The Steerswoman series ; 4 If you haven’t read the previous books in the series then this is not the place...
23 June 2018
The ordinary princess by M. M. Kaye
At her christening Princess Amy is blessed with the gift of being ordinary by one of her fairy godmothers, and, much...
20 June 2018
The hundred thousand kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Inheritance trilogy ; 1 Okay, so I’m behind the times with this. And yes, I’ve heard so many people talk about...
15 June 2018
Questions for a soldier by John Scalzi
Old Man’s War ; 1.5 This is a short read, a question and answer session between John Perry from Old Man’s...
11 June 2018
Under the pendulum sun by Jeanette Ng
I added this book to my unwieldy Mount TBR because of Smart Bitches description of it as a stunningly different fantasy...
10 June 2018
The king beyond the gate by David Gemmell
The Drenai Saga ; 2 David Gemmell is a big name in epic fantasy, and over the years I’ve read one...
8 June 2018
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, an infamous murderer in Canada in the 1840’s, Atwood’s book uses different narrators to tell the story, as well as interspersing the story with extracts from other works. From poems, fiction, newspapers of the time, and other sources. Although this is based on the real story, Atwood has, of course, fictionalised a great deal of the novel.
The two narrators are Grace herself, who tells her story in the first person, past tense, and Simon Jordan, the doctor investigating her claims of insanity or innocence. His parts are told by a third person narrator, and are in the present tense.
4 June 2018
Hortense and the shadow by Natalia O'Hara
This is a really beautifully illustrated book and a girl named Hortense. She doesn’t like her shadow, it is always following...
29 May 2018
Artificial condition by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries ; 2 The whole time I was reading this book1 I kept telling myself to slow down. It...
12 May 2018
The lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
I added this book to my TBR pile way back in 2016 when the author talked about pitting his character against...
3 May 2018