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Category: Book Reviews

Review of your favorite books. From bestsellers to the next hidden gem, from novels to short stories we review it all here. For more books reviews check out Nekoplz.

Top 50 Favorite Novels of the Decade: 2000-2009

On October 20, 2009 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

Not too long ago I decided to make a list of my top 10 favorite books of the decade, from 2000-2009. I easily knocked out a list with a couple of dozen titles then decided …

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Quatrain + Fortune and Fate + Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn Review

On October 6, 2009 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

Quatrain is a collection of, as the name suggests, four all-new novellas from Sharon Shinn.  Each is set in a distinct world established from previous books, and each story stands firmly against the others.  Shinn …

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The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville Review

On October 6, 2009 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

Those who believe that the short story is dead and/or irrelevant, and those who don’t see the value in publishing stories in e-zines that pay very little, if at all, to a circulation that is in …

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Notes on Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

On October 6, 2009 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

I’m picking my way through Inherent Vice, and I’m not even quarter of the way through it yet but I wanted to post some informal thoughts. By the end of the first chapter I was …

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The January Dancer by Michael Flynn Review

On September 11, 2009 By John Markley In Book Reviews

Michael Flynn is one of the more unusual figures in modern SF and especially in technically rigorous science fiction, one who delves into areas seldom touched by other writers:  taking a “hard” science approach to social science in …

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A Bad Day For Sorry by Sophie Littlefield Review

On September 9, 2009 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

When young mother Chrissy Shaw asks Stella for help with her no-good husband, Roy Dean, it looks like an easy case. Until Roy Dean disappears with Chrissy’s two-year-old son, Tucker. Stella quickly learns that Roy …

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Evermore by Alyson Noël Review

On September 5, 2009 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

Evermore is the first book in Alyson Noël’s new YA series, The Immortals.  Fittingly, considering the title, a lot of E words popped into my mind when I was thinking of how to describe it:  Enchanting.  …

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Never Slow Dance with a Zombie by E. Van Lowe Review

On August 29, 2009 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

Never Slow Dance with a Zombie is a novel for young adults.  I read a fair amount of YA books, and I’m never quite sure how to judge them.  I mean, I can tell you …

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Level 26: Dark Origins by Anthony Zuiker & Duane Swierczynski Review

On August 26, 2009 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

Level 26 is problematic at best. I’m going to take a more personal approach to this review then I have in the past because that just seems like the best approach. When I first started …

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Darkborn by Alison Sinclair Review

On August 21, 2009 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

Darkborn is a fantasy novel that I’m not quite sure how to further classify or qualify.  It’s not quite romantic fantasy, because even though it has strong themes of love, it is not a love …

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Best Served Cold + The Heroes + The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie Review

On July 22, 2009 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

Since the books in the First Law trilogy cannot stand alone, I consider them to be one work.  One super-massive-red-giant, thousands-of-pages-long, split-into-three-volumes work.  That makes Best Served Cold Joe Abercrombie’s sophomore effort–which is not to …

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Bookspot 2009 Summer 6-pack of Books

On July 2, 2009 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

Summer is here and BSC has the car packed up and we’re taking a road trip. We called some friends and the only thing left to do is load up the cooler with potluck 6-packs. …

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The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly Review

On June 28, 2009 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Irish author John Connolly is perhaps best known for his crime stories that hover on the edges between traditional detective stories and supernatural horror, but with The Book of Lost Things, Connolly travels deeper into …

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith Review

On June 16, 2009 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

Letter from Jane Austen to Seth Grahame-Smith Dear Sir, I have recently become acquainted with your work as a novelist, while I believe your acquaintance with mine is of a much longer standing.  Nevertheless, I …

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On Kings and Assassins – Lane Robins Guest Blog

On June 11, 2009 By Lane Robins In Book Reviews, Guest Blogs

Writing the sequel to Maledicte was an interesting challenge, since I had originally thought of Maledicte as a stand-alone novel. Sure, it has some loose ends waving in the breeze, but life’s like that. A …

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Star of the Morning + The Mage’s Daughter + Princess of the Sword + Tapestry of Spells + Spellweaver by Lynn Kurland Review

On May 28, 2009 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

The Nine Kingdoms series is another offering from a writer who normally writes romance. Despite the fact that these books are placed in the romance section at bookstores (along with the rest of Kurland’s work, which …

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Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson Review

On May 15, 2009 By Rob In Book Reviews

Warbreaker is Brandon Sanderson’s second standalone fantasy novel. It is unrelated to any of his other books. The process of writing this book was somewhat unusual, earlier versions of the story were released under a …

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Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox Review

On April 28, 2009 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Dragon in Chains is a stunning Oriental fantasy by Daniel Fox, which is the pen-name of the award-winning British writer Chaz Brenchley, known for the historical fantasy series The Books of Outremer. Dragon in Chains …

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Hand of Isis +Black Ships by Jo Graham Review

On April 25, 2009 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Last year Jo Graham made her debut as a novelist with Black Ship, a poignant and intimate re-working of the story of Vergil’s Aeneid, set in the Mediterranean Bronze Age, a world poised on the …

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Eve of Darkness, Chaos, and Destruction by S.J. Day – Review

On April 19, 2009 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

This book reminded me why expectations are so important to the reading experience.  I expected it to be “fun beach reading,” and that’s exactly what it is.  Had I expected something else, I might have …

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