18 May 2012
Call no: US author
Genre: sff
Setting: Faerie, USA - San Francisco
7 Stars
2 Comments
An October Daye novel #3 Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge October Daye, she’d much prefer you call her Toby, is a changeling, living in San Francisco. And if you’ve read that first sentence there you’ll see … Continue reading
7 April 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: detective & mystery, sff
Setting: California, contemporary
9 Stars
5 Comments
An October Daye novel #2 Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge October Daye is a changeling. Her mother is Amandine of the Daoine Sidhe, and her father was a mortal man. She works as a private investigator … Continue reading
2 April 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: contemporary, USA - San Francisco
9 Stars
5 Comments
An October Daye novel #1 Read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge In 1995 October Daye made a mistake. Trailing a “bad guy” she was found out. She spent the next fourteen years as a fish. That is … Continue reading
9 January 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: South Africa
9 Stars
6 Comments
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge & for Carl’s Science Fiction Experience. Zinzi December finds lost things. That’s her shavi, the gift she received, along with her Sloth, for her crime. No one really knows where the … Continue reading
19 August 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: alternate world, Britain - Victorian
9 Stars
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An Alexia Tarabotti novel, The Parasol Protectorate: Book the Fourth The first book in this series introduced us to our heroine, Alexia Tarabotti, and in some ways the very first line of this book is a spoiler for that one … Continue reading
31 October 2010
Genre: sff
Setting: alternate world, Britain - Victorian, Florence
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by Gail Carriger
If you haven’t yet read Soulless and Changeless then I am afraid that this review will contain spoilers for those two books. Always the way with reviewing books in a series.
I’ve just realised that I’ve never really mentioned the covers in my review of these books, but just take a second to take a proper look at them. Aren’t they wonderful! I’m not sure if that is exactly how I picture Alexia, she always seems, how would she put it, more substantial than the model on the cover, but the are so very appropriate. And just look at that othnithopter over Paris. Oops, spoilers, because yes, Alexia heads to France and then on to Italy. How exciting. Continue reading
30 October 2010
Genre: detective & mystery, sff
Setting: alternate world, Britain - Victorian, Scotland
1 Comment
by Gail Carriger
If you haven’t yet read Soulless then I am afraid that this review will contain spoilers. It is the second book in a series after all. However, the spoilers are, in a way, not spoilers, because you pretty much knew what was going to happen simply becasue of the conventions of a romance. But nevertheless, consider your self warned.
Soulless ended with Alexia becoming Lady Maccoon after marrying Conall Maccon, as well as muhjah to Queen Victoria. Muhjah being the traditional preternatural advisor to the monarch, alongside a hiveless vampire and a packless werewolf. Changeless begins with her husband disappearing off to Scotland after his old pack. A strange lack of supernatural ability in London. And Alexia following Conall to Scotland on the trail of whatever caused the temporary supernatural-less-ness. And she travels on a dirigible. How very steampunk!
13 October 2010
Genre: romance, sff
Setting: alternate world, Britain - Victorian, London
16 Comments
by Gail Carriger
And the reason for Miss Tarabotti’s lack of enjoyment it that she was promised refreshment at a private ball, and when it didn’t arrive she absconded to the library and ordered some tea. And while there she was attacked by a vampire. How rude!
29 May 2008
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: Newford
2 Comments
ISBN: 0330339591 Once Upon a Time Challenge ; More reviews Katherine Mulley had been dead for five years and two months, the morning Isabelle received the letter from her. I’ve read a few of De Lint’s books in recent years … Continue reading
25 May 2008
Genre: Juv/YA, romance, sff
Setting: Faerie
2 Comments
A Modern Tale of Faerie ISBN: 0689860420 Read for the Once Upon A Time challenge. See also: About Holly Black ; Stainless Steel Droppings ; Book~Adorer ; The page wanderer Other OUAT challangees: bottle of shine ; Stephanie’s books ; … Continue reading