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Carrie Ryan: The Forest of Hands and Teeth

07 Jun 2009 · No Comments

The Forest of Hands and Teeth is the weirdest zombie story I’ve ever read. And it’s not just because the book never once uses the word “zombie.” It’s not even because the novel is set generations after the zombie’s victory over humanity.
The Forest of Hands and Teeth opens in a small village of humans surrounded [...]

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Tags: f-title · fantasy · horror · r-author · science fiction · young adult

Lauren Henderson: Freeze My Margarita

08 May 2008 · No Comments

It may partly be “too many books in the same series back-to-back” syndrome, but Freeze My Margarita felt much more tired and formulaic than the previous book in the Sam Jones series, Black Rubber Dress, and several particulars bugged me:

The opening scene is set in a D/s club. It seems to be set there purely [...]

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Tags: f-title · h-author · mystery

Karen Novak: Five Mile House

21 Oct 2007 · No Comments

Karen Novak’s Five Mile House is unambiguously a ghost story, even a haunted house story — one of the narrative voices belongs to a ghost, and provides the novel with its arresting opening sentences:
I am Eleanor, and I, like this house, am haunted. I died when I fell from this tower, that window. It [...]

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Tags: f-title · fantasy · n-author · suspense

Laurie J. Marks: Fire Logic

27 Sep 2007 · 1 Comment

A curmudgeonly speculative-fiction fan I used to know had rules for avoiding crap books that went more or less like this:

Nothing with swords or dragons in the title or the cover
Nothing with a map of imaginary places at the front

There are many counter-examples to prove the rules, and even more bad books not filtered by [...]

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Tags: f-title · fantasy · m-author

John MacLachlan Gray: The Fiend In Human

04 Apr 2007 · No Comments

I think the first time my friend Marty and I had a conversation about books, he said something like “I read classic literature [which gave us substantial common ground] and thrillers about serial killers.” [which didn't much increase it] and he expressed a distinct lack of fondness for modern “serious” fiction.
We’ve spent plenty of time [...]

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Tags: f-title · g-author · historical · thriller