Category Archives: Book Reviews

Rosemary and Rue

My primary emotional response to Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire is disappointment. I’ve been told by people whose opinions I respect that she is the quintessential urban fantasy writer. She sets the standard against which other urban fantasies are … Continue reading

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The Telling, by Ursula LeGuin

My comments on this 2009 novel by Ursula LeGuin are posted at fanlit.

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Clockwork Prince

My review of Cassandra Clare’s Victorian Shadowhunter book is up at fanlit.

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Baal, by Robert McCammon

My review of Subterranean Press’s reprint of Baal, Robert McCammon’s first horror novel, is up on fanlit.

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Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

My review of Robert Bloch’s reprint anthology from Subterranean Press is up at fanlit.

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The Burning Soul

My review of John Connolly’s The Burning Soul is up at Fanlit. Some pretty prose (mine, not his) and some awesome prose (his, not mine).

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Endurance

My review of Jay Lake’s fantasy novel Endurance is up at fanlit. I think I was rather harsh, but I do not think that Lake accomplished his goals here.

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Dead Famous

Saturday I stopped at Copperfield’s Used Books in Sebastopol on my way home from running errands. I was searching for a specific mystery to give a friend for All Hallows’ Read. I didn’t find that book, but stumbled across hidden … Continue reading

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Around the World in 80 Days

My comments on this Jules Verne classic are posted at fanlit.

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The Anubis Murders

My review of The Anubis Murders, by D&D creator Gary Gygax, is up on Fanlit. The book is nothing special, but kind of fun.

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