This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Deep Sky will be released on July 18, 2023. We’ve reached the end of Sky Week, which closes with the second consecutive space thriller review. Now I’m not usually one for space thrillers,… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Splinter in the Sky will be released on July 11, 2023. Sky Week at Tar Vol On marches on with The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Ashing-Giwa came onto my radar… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Surviving Sky will be released on June 13, 2023. It’s Sky Week at Tar Vol On, thanks to a trio of summer releases whose titles end with the word “Sky.” First on the… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams was released in the UK in 2017, promptly won the British Fantasy Award, and then went about three years before US publication—a sure fire recipe for finding itself on lots of “underrated treasures” lists. I grabbed a copy during some sale or another and then let it collect virtual… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
The month before the Hugo Award nomination deadline always involves a mad scramble to read as much off the award-eligible section of my TBR as I can. This year, I was able to squeeze in three 2022 novels before the end of April, and my first priority was a first contact novel that seemed exactly… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar will be released on June 1, 2023. I’ve been hearing about Indra Das for a while, but not enough to push him to the top of a crowded TBR.… Continue reading Fantasy Novella Review: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das
The marketing of C.S.E. Cooney’s Saint Death’s Daughter did absolutely nothing to appeal to me. Queer coming-of-age? Could be good, but not a selling point in itself. Features necromancers? That’s probably a negative, to be honest. Comparisons to Gideon the Ninth? Absolutely a negative. But enough bookish friends liked it that I decided to give… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Saint Death’s Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Witch King will be released on May 30, 2023. Between The Books of the Raksura and The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells has become one of my favorite character writers in the contemporary sci-fi/fantasy genre—especially… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Witch King by Martha Wells
As a long-time lover of portals and multiverses, the description of Aimee Pokwatka’s debut novel Self-Portrait With Nothing immediately caught my eye. And when it was singled out for praise in Amal El-Mohtar’s Best of 2022 list, I determined to seek it out as soon as I could. Self-Portrait with Nothing follows Pepper, a forensic… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka
The first round of the second annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC2) has ended, and my team has hand-picked three semifinalists to send to two other teams of fellow judges. In return, we have received six semifinalists from two other judging teams, which we will read before the end of April. I have closed my… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: Dim Stars by Brian P. Rubin
