Book Review – The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint
This is a review of Charles de Lint’s The Mystery of Grace published in March of 2009 by Tor. This is our second review of the this novel (read the first here)
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Book Review – Child of the Prophecy
Author: Juliet Marillier Publisher: TOR Publishing Date: June 2003 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Child of the Prophecy is the final installment in Juliet Marillier’s award winning Sevenwaters Trilogy, which she begun with Daughter of the Forest and continued with Son of the Shadows, and I am pleased to say that [...]
Book Review – Son of the Shadows
Author: Juliet Marillier Publisher: TOR Publishing Date: June 2002 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Son of the Shadows is the second book in Juliet Marillier’s widely acclaimed Sevenwaters trilogy through it can, like its predecessor Daughter of the Forest, be read independently. Where Daughter of the Forest was a story that [...]
Book Review – Daughter of the Forest
Author: Juliet Marillier Publisher: TOR Publication Date: February 2002 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Daughter of the Forest is the debut of the New Zealand author Juliet Marillier and the first book in the widely acclaimed Sevenwaters Trilogy. It offers a deep-felt re-telling of “Six Swans”, an old folk tale that [...]
Book Review – Kushiel’s Dart
Author: Jacqueline Carey Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2001 Kushiel’s Dart is Jacqueline Carey’s highly successful debut and the first instalment of a trilogy that chronicles the exploits of Phèdre nó Delaunay – exquisite courtesan, talented spy and god-touched masochist. The book received the 2002 Locus Award for Best [...]
Book Review – The Ivory and the Horn
Author: Charles de Lint Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Publisher: Orb Binding: Paperback Publication Date:1995 Charles de Lint’s collection The Ivory and the Horn gathers together 15 of his tales set in the city of Newford – revealing not only the darkness but the beauty that always lies beneath the surface of life. I read [...]
Book Review – Territory
Author: Emma Bull Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: July 2007 The story covers the events leading up to the famous gunfight at the OK Corral. All the usual players are featured, like Curly Bill Brocius, Ike Clanton, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp. Yet, something isn’t quite the same. Someone new [...]
Book Review – The Whyte Tiger
Author: Paul Park Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2007 The story begun in A Princess of Roumania and continued in The Tourmaline picks up once more in The White Tyger – a journey spanning our own “imaginary” world, the “real” world of Roumania, and the “hidden” world of dreams. [...]
Book Review – The Black Tattoo
Author: Sam Enthoven Cover Artist: John Jude Palencar Publisher: Penguin Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October 2006 In THE BLACK TATTOO, Sam Enthoven’s created an adventure novel of anti-theology for young adults, excising all the white hats in favor of a panoply of demonic dictators and gladiators which will appeal to fans of grotesquerie and fight [...]
