This novel is a Fantasy love story, a coming-of-age tale that becomes a character’s life story, concentrating on her youth and old age but reflecting multiple images of different generations of her family and friends. The fractured plotline could be confusing, jumping back and forth between the girl she was and the grandmother she is, […]
“Little Amani” Chaili Trilogy 1 by Warwick Gibson
First: why you might want to pick up this novel. It’s a good Sci-Fi, “rebels against the empire” tale. It has likeable, believable characters, and the creative dodge is having the rebel leaders mostly women, which brings a refreshing change to the tone of their revolution and the story. The Sci-Fi and historical background is […]
“Unfortunately, I Was Available” by Jon Hart
I’m not too sure how to label this book. Perhaps “Autobiographical Vignettes.” It is a series of short tales taken from the author’s work as a film extra. Part of the draw for this sort of work is the possibility of learning something about an area of our society that is closed to us. Hart […]
“An Enemy’s Gift” by Larry Armstrong
This book shows an interesting approach to creating a novella. Instead of laying out the usual story arc with all the details pared down to minimum, the author simply ignores the beginning of the time line and gives us only the action part. The problem is that in the condensing process, the author has taken […]
“The Elysian Hegemony” by Michael J. Byrne
This novel shows an unfortunate example of a writer who attempts far too much, trying to appeal to too many different types of reader, and ends up satisfying none of them. The book starts out as a Military Action-Adventure. The opening involves a great firefight, full of technical jargon, esoteric weapons, and fast-paced fighting. But […]