Author: Kristen
Clarkesworld Books Temporarily Open/ Update

I was very excited last night to find out that Clarkesworld Books, which used to be one of my favorite bookstores before it closed, is temporarily open through July 31. The order minimum is $35, but it’s for a good cause – the owner is trying to free up some space so his two boys can have bigger rooms. So you can always justify your order by telling yourself it has nothing to do with an uncontrollable book buying addiction […]

Review of Blood and Iron

Blood and Ironby Elizabeth Bear448pp (Paperback)My Rating: 8.75/10Amazon Rating: 4/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.05/5Good Reads Rating: 3.63/5 Blood and Iron is the first book in Campbell award winning author Elizabeth Bear’s urban fantasy series, “The Promethean Age.” The third book in the series will be out on July 1 and a fourth book is scheduled for release on August 5 of this year. With its lush prose, gray characters, and interweaving of mythology, Blood and Iron was a very enchanting story with […]

Update

I finished Blood and Iron, the first book in Elizabeth Bear’s “Promethean Age” series so I should have a review of that up in the next couple of days. You could say I liked it since I want the next book now. It is out, but I’m going to be patient (ha!) and wait until the third book is out on July 1 and just order them both since I can’t find the next book at any of my local […]

Tag!

I visited Realms of Speculative Fiction today and found I’ve been tagged. I’m now supposed to get the nearest book, turn to page 123, and copy the fifth sentence. Hm, there an awful lot of books that could qualify as “nearest” with 8 bookshelves here… So I chose the book I just finished, Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear. That sentence is… You should go. Well, that’s a boring sentence. What’s on page 223? Seeker whirled and hurled the glass […]

Forgotten Friday: Beauty by Robin McKinley

I first heard of posting about forgotten books on Friday’s a couple of weeks ago and was reminded of it again today when I read the OF Blog’s feature on The Famished Road by Ben Okri. I’ve only been reading speculative fiction regularly for the last few years, so I thought I didn’t have any older books to mention since I already read and review a lot of the older ones I have missed here. However, a few books did […]