Category Archives: Book Reviews

My review of Ashok Banker’s Prince of Ayodhya is up at Fanlit. The slow and episodic nature of this one failed to satisfy me, but I think Banker knows his material very well indeed.

My review of Steven John’s novel Three A.M. is up on Fantasyliterature.com

I found The Tudor Secret on the remainder table at my local independent bookstore. After a little research I have decided that it might have also been released under the title The Secret Lion, since the description of that book … Continue reading →

My review of Robert Jackson Bennett’s dark fantasy The Troupe is up on Fantasyliterature. Bennett has an original voice and different vision of American fantasy. Recommended.

My review of Anne Lyle’s Alchemist of Souls went up on fantasyliterature.com a few weeks ago. The site also posted my interview with Lyle. Here’s the link to the review. The book has some interesting concepts for a traditional epic … Continue reading →

I ordered a book, an omnibus edition of a trilogy, to review for Fantasy Literature. The omnibus title was The Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, written by Andy Remic. I ordered the book by mistake; thinking it was another book. When I … Continue reading →

My review of The Outcast Blade, by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, and the interview with him, is posted at fantasyliterature. You can find it by clicking on the author link, going to G for Grimwood, etc, or Fanlit Features, author interviews.

The Chalk Girl is Carol O’Connell’s latest Mallory mystery. Mallory is back on the job at NYPD, with no explanation for her three-month absence (except we know, because we read Find Me). If any further proof were needed that the … Continue reading →