The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee – review
Emily Gee is one of those writers where I picked up her first book and knew I would love her forever. She’s not really prolific (though by fantasy standards not a total slouch, either), but her work hits this nicely balanced empty space between epic fantasy and romantic fantasy. The best way I can explain [...]
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie – review
The Heroes is a Joe Abercrombie book. For better or for worse, Abercrombie has created a brand for himself with his world, his style of storytelling and characterization, and his view of epic fantasy—or at least his self-conscious decision to undermine its assumptions while working within its frame—that lead to an easy summary for a [...]
Castle – “Law & Murder” – review
Okay, Castle fans, I’m back after a loooooooooooooong hiatus from talking about the good, the bad, and the ugly of this show. There’s a few points from the middle third of this season that I want to bring up, but, shit, they’ve waited this long, they can wait till the end of this post. Right [...]
Lynn Kurland – Nine Kingdoms – interview
Lynn Kurland is the author of the Nine Kingdoms romantic fantasy series, as well as a best-selling romance author. For all my love of dark, bloodspurting, knights who say–er, frak–fantasy, I also love the lighter side of fairy-tale, love-story high fantasy, so this series fits right in to one of my reading sweet spots. I [...]
L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – Imager – interview
L.E. Modesitt, Jr., is the best-selling author of several fantasy and science fiction series, and a name you can’t get through any bookstore’s SFF section without encountering. I am only familiar with his work on the Imager Portfolio–the first three books of which I have reviewed here at BSC. From the first book it became one of my favorite [...]
Best Fantasy Movies of the Decade: 2000-2009
When I was asked to write a companion piece to my Best Science Fiction Movies of the Decade list, I thought it would be equally as easy. I was wrong. There were a lot of kind of good fantasy movies over the last 10 years, but not really a lot of great ones. I think [...]
Name That Movie! – a painless vocabulary builder by Brian Leaf – review
Brian Leaf has put together what he calls “a painless vocabulary builder” for tests like the SAT, ACT, GED, and GRE. The basic concept is, as the title implies, using movie quotes to give a context for the words, since that is one of the best mnemonic devices; the book promises 100 movie quotes and [...]
Spellweaver by Lynn Kurland – review
Spellweaver is the latest book in Lynn Kurland’s fantasy-romance Nine Kingdoms series and the direct sequel to A Tapestry of Spells. This makes it the middle book of a trilogy that parallels the first three Nine Kingdoms books; at the end of this book the two stories had still not come together, but the distance [...]
Nocturne by Syrie James – review
Let me be honest: Nocturne by Syrie James is not the sort of novel that I naturally gravitate to. I read it because it was offered to me and sounded interesting enough to try–the sort of book that a friend lends you, or that you pick up from the airport bookstore’s limited options, at least [...]
The Bodice Rippeth – All I Want for Christmas
Today is Christmas Eve, and what better way to celebrate the season than by baring it all here at The Bodice Rippeth! If you’ve never seen this spotlight before, allow me to present the modern Romance section. Current market trends have moved away from the discreet markers of roses and silk and toward total transparency of [...]
Tron Legacy – review
Tron Legacy is the sort of movie that, in my opinion, requires a disclosure of a reviewer’s perspective up front. So to that end, I feel compelled to admit that I have only seen Tron once, and that I saw it about three days ago with the specific end of watching the original before I [...]
The Bodice Rippeth – Hot for the Holidays and Mistletoe Shenanigans
It’s officially Christmas season here at The Bodice Rippeth! If you’ve never seen this spotlight before, allow me to present the modern Romance section. Current market trends have moved away from the discreet markers of roses and silk and toward total transparency of content. I’ve compiled for your amusement the best of the worst covers which [...]
