Genre: Horror Publisher: Samhain Published: 2012 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? Dead of Winter, by Brain Moreland proved to be a real treat of me. Between liking horror more as Fall envelopes us and finding out Samhain Publishing has closed their doors, I dug …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Xlibris Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Not Rated Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? If you’ve been reading my reviews on SFReader, you might have noticed that The Imaginarium Machine, by John Adrian Tomlin, has a different rating from my others: Not Rated. That’s became I …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, brings us fun stories of your not-so-typical fairy-tale type. Here we’ve got bikers. mobsters, cowboys, assassins, criminals, and all manner of dark-side, noir …
Genre: Superhero Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Contents Song of Tyrta by Drew Bittner Cold Snap by Ty Johnson Return of the Devis by Torah Cottrill Fire and Brimstone by Walt Ciechanowski Little Sisters of the Hourglass by James …
Genre: Nonfiction Biography Publisher: Athanor Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Like it or not (and it seems Shatner mostly railed against it), Captain James T. Kirk is a global, cultural icon. In William Shatner, a Transformed Man, Hauck exposes some of the man …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Solaris Published: 2014 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? I had already read the enjoyable World of Water which happens to be the second in the series–and spotted that I actually had the first book in my TBR pile… Dev Harmer, reluctant agent …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? If We Had Known, edited by Mike McPhail, presents thirteen stories of humanity’s future, each one (some more than others) exploring the theme of if we had know what would …
Genre: Military Science Fiction Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 201 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? The Die Is Cast, edited by Greg Schauer, contains 10 stories by Mike McPahil and Danielle Ackley-McPhail. Although The Die Is Cast was published in 2017, most of the stories …
Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In Yesterday’s Dreams, by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Kara O’Keefe, overwhelmed by the expenses of her father’s cancer treatments, finds herself forced to give up the violin passed down to her by her …
Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? To condense the official blurb: In The Halfling’s Court, by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lance Cosain is the halfling (as in half-human, half-elf, not the Middle Earth kind) leader of The Wild Hunt …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Titan Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley is a strange sort of Science Fiction. Original and odd, this story takes you in an unexpected u-turn within the first few chapters and then just …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Kristell Ink Published: 2013 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? Looking for something enjoyable and interesting to read, I found this offering languishing in my TBR pile… Llew has a gift. Her body heals itself from any injury–but at a cost to anyone …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Vintage Published: 2016 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? Version Control by Dexter Palmer is a Science Fiction novel, heavy on the science side and low on the fantastic. The upside is the reader might learn more than a little about …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Del Ray Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? I’d heard a lot about this series and so was delighted when I spotted this one on Netgalley. As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Loose ID Published: 2013 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Jarla Taugh Have you read this book? Levade is a book for those unafraid to feel. In terms of raw emotion and execution, it surpassed the first book Capriole. It’s all about the Lipizzans. Well, no, but there’s major …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbeee Have you read this book? Those of you who are regular visitors to this blog will know that I am continually banging on about how much I love the How To Train Your Dragon …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Chizine Published: 2012 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies by James Marshall was published by Chizine, which has always been one of my favorite publishing houses, but if I had read this one of their novels …
Genre: Military SF Publisher: Espec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In All Directions, by David Sherman, is the second book in his The 18th Race series, covering military action by the Earth against a particularly aggressive alien species that invaded and …
Genre: Apocalyptic Science Fiction Publisher: Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In the near future (the reader isn’t told precisely when) the United States has broken up into a separate zones, each zone protected by a “salt line”, a broad expanse of scorched …
Genre: Military SF Publisher: Dark Quest Published: 2013 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In humanity’s expansion out of the solar systems and into the galaxy, we have discovered evidence of eighteen other sentient species. Seventeen of these species had not developed interstellar travel and …
