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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: mystery · f-title · h-author

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

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