Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner My rating: 5 of 5 stars Remember Kamet, the ambassador’s slave from a few books ago? Eugenides, King of Atolia & Thief of Eddis sent a solider to steal him. Most of the book is a travel journey, blessed by the god of “how many ways can you … More Good Batch this week
The war is over, what’s left to write about? Time to bring the story back to the personal: Meg & Simon, are they going to kiss again or not? Incidentally, Policeman Montgomery has a criminal brother, that would be petty crime and not global war, and Jimmy is coming to town. Jimmy is Not Nice … More Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop
My rating: 5 of 5 stars So tragic, Presidential nominee Abraham Lincoln was assassinated before he ever took his oath of office. In a fit of patriotism, the South and North made peace with keeping slavery… until the individual states gave it up in the 1900s. Only the Hard 4 still have slavery. Early in … More Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
Given a choice, would you rather do 10 years of service in the lap of luxury or in filth and hunger? Hint, they are both bad choices. How about not doing the 10 years of service? Oh, that’s too radical. Slavery mixed in with laptop computers and a Rolls Royce? Oh, that’s not weird at … More Gilded Cage by Vic James
Alternate History! WWII never happened… nobody killed Hitler but Germany won The Great War fairly quickly. Then took over most of Europe, Africa, and Mexico. /Lebensraum/, folks! We meet some war-greats of WWII as younger men, fighting Germans on the home-soil, coming up from Mexico. No women want to fight – except for Amelia Earhart … More 1920: America’s Great War by Robert Conroy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Cool dreams inspire Jessica’s art. Cool art inspires kidnappers and arsonists? Yikes. Jessica’s jerk dad inspires a DNA test, and the results are – weirder than weird. And people with just such weird results are being killed in beautifully orchestrated accidents, so Jess and her 2 new friends have … More Dreamwalker by C.S. Friedman
re-read. insta-summary: a talisman from the future is changing the course of Roman, Persian & Indian history. This book has some of my favorite scenes in the series. Most favorite part is the chase sequence, which takes several chapters, and shows cleverness rather than smash-ups. Excess snark is a bonus. View all my reviews
Lots of short stories, some marvelous, some not so great, one that I gave up on in middle. You might think that after so many books and short stories, there would be no ideas left, but that is laughably wrong. There are lots and lots of ideas, ranging from * ‘if W Virginia town came … More Ring of Fire 4 by Eric Flint
What if you could create the Platonic Ideal of a city? Set in the past, with the gods’ help? Find out in The Just City. Now most of the gods have left, the electricity failed, and a the next generation have split to different cities, or left altogether. We follow the children of Apollo the … More The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
No time to write even short reviews of everything, sigh. A week of reading, hm, I’m all over the place here. Time Travel! 1635: A Parcel of Rogues. Eric Flint & Andrew Denis. A fun read, not pushing the envelope of the series. 1636: The Cardinal Virtues. Eric Flint & Walter Hunt. Hm, not everyone … More This Week’s Book List
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