The secret to reading a China Miéville story is this: he’s going to give you an impossible premise to accept. It’s going to be weird and unrealistic and against all laws of nature, but you’re going to have to believe that that’s the way this world works. Once you accept it, your reward is a very
China Mieville’s newest book actually came out a couple months ago, but I’ve been saving it for the long flight I’ve got to take next week. So in the meantime I’ll just do a little review of the book that turned me on to his writing in the first place: Perdido Street Station. I’ll say
(For anybody who’s wondering, I promise I’ll eventually review a book written in the past five years, it won’t always be these decades-old books. Honest. I promise.) Like many people I read the first four books of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guild series and stopped there. I’d heard the fifth book, Mostly Harmless, wasn’t as good,
If you ever hear me say “Oh, I’m not really into the whole vampire thing,” feel free to smack me. I don’t know why I say it; it’s probably because I don’t dress in black or wear fake fangs (much) but as I was reading Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls, I kept comparing it to
Last week, I had the immense pleasure and honor to interview one of fantasy literature’s most prolific figures. RA Salvatore — famous for the Drizzt series — is running from coast to coast for the next few weeks to promote his newest book Neverwinter, the second title in the similarly titled trilogy. Before his tour,
Last week I talked about Brandon Sanderson’s awesome book Warbreaker. This week I address another stand alone novel by Sanderson: Elantris. Elantris was his debut onto the science-fiction novel scene and it is a great opening novel. The story is superbly written and has a wonderful plot that deals with religion, political subterfuge, and of course,
Warbreaker is a stand alone fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, who you may know as the author finishing The Wheel of Time series started by Robert Jordan. That is where I first saw Sanderson’s work, and I immediately fell in love with his writing. I started devouring his books, from his first fantasy novel, Elantris, to
I love vampire fiction. I am enchanted by the mythos that invariably surrounds these denizens of the night, and, in my opinion, the best part about the mythos is that it changes from author to author. Vampires are intrinsically different in each story, but still retain certain distinguishing features. Jasper Kent’s fantastic vampire novel Twelve
In this fast paced sequel to Mira Grant’s amazing post-apocalyptic zombie thriller Feed, we continue the story of the crew of “The End Times,” faced with new developments. This amazing sequel picks up the plot where the first let off and delivers. From new intrigue and plot twists to the ever changing and evolving threat