The Devil Colony by James Rollins – review
The Devil Colony has all you could want in a Sigma Force novel by James Rollins: action, adventure, speculation, and a story ripped right out of the pages of history combined with a breakneck plot that incorporates the latest advances in cutting-edge (nano)technology. It’s the seventh book in the series so far, and it might very [...]
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis – review
I want to start with the end, as I think it gives you a bit of the moxy from the author that will filter up through the pages of Crooked Little Vein. Many times we read the back-interior flap of a book and the author bio that offers a personal touch, but for the most [...]
Book Review – Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
The Nerd of Noir reviews Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard.
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Book Review – Enemies & Allies by Kevin J. Anderson
Batman. Superman.
It is through their dynamic partnership that fans get an insight into the light and dark side of being a hero. Kevin J. Anderson brings us Enemies & Allies, read the rest of the review after the jump . . .
Book Review – The Shadow Year
Author: Jeffrey Ford Cover Artist: Dan Burn-Forti Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2008 Almost two years ago when I reviewed Ford’s collection The Empire of Ice Cream for FantasyBookSpot, I noted that Botch Town was my favorite of the bunch. It was something of a mystery story meshed with a coming of age [...]
Book Review – Crooked Little Vein
Author: Warren Ellis Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: July 2007 Michael McGill is a burned-out private detective and self-described “shit magnet” who is enlisted by the White House Chief of Staff to retrieve the Constitution of the United States, not the one taught about in history class but the REAL Constitution. The one [...]
Book Review – What the Dead Know
Author: Laura Lippman Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: March, 2007 Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from [...]
Book Review – Big City, Bad Blood
Author: Sean Chercover Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 2007 Ray Dudgeon is a disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective. His latest case is to protect Bob Loniski. Loniski saw something he shouldn’t have and now he’s a prosecution witness against a suspected member of the Chicago Outfit. I’m willing to bet that [...]
Book Review – Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Author: Neil Gaiman Cover Artist: Richard Aquan Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: September 2006 Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on [...]
Book Review – Three Days to Never
Author: Tim Powers Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2006 Tim Powers’s novels are so unlike anything else that I think John Shirley said it best over at Emerald City “Tim Powers is his own genre”. Or maybe he is the most unpredictable predictable writer alive, either way he is the most consistently originally [...]
Book Review – Anansi Boys
Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2005 Neil Gaiman has made a very successful career out of taking traditional mythology and molding it, recrafting it in line with his distinctive vision, yet doing so without ever breaking the archetypal truths inherent in the source myths. He rose to prominence doing this [...]
