If I had a “Top Ten Books of the Year” list, this one would be on it. It’s not a novel, a novella or a short story. It belongs to that tiny niche that fascinates Historical Fiction readers; let’s call it “Letters from the Front.” This book distinguishes itself in two ways. First, it is…
Month: December 2023
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“Halls of Fire” by Christian Cura
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This is the second book of a serial, which picks up with a new chapter in the main character’s life and ends with a cliff-hanger and few conflicts resolved. It is one of those unfortunate stories where the author has done an incredible amount of creative world-building in setting, mythology, and society, but then feels…
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“Six Moons, Seven Gods” by Robert A. Walker
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I really enjoyed this book, but one comment occurred to me early in my reading, so it takes precedence in my review as well. Someone ought to make a rule and engrave it on the pedestal of Calliope, the muse of poets and writers. “Don’t make readers spend too much time with unpleasant people.” This…
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“The Waking Nightmares” by M. D. Boncher
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This story is an interesting combination of genres. It is far-in-the-future Sci-Fi with incredibly powerful science — perhaps too powerful, but more on that later. The hero, Winston, is a standard poor-but-independent Space Opera pilot, but his employer, Professor/Baron Quentin, is an aristocrat/adventurer straight out of Steampunk. The secondary characters are purposefully developed stereotypes from…
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“A Tree Becomes a Room” by J. P. White
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It is a pleasure to read an artist who realizes that poetry is as much about what you don’t say as about what you choose to put on the page. One key connection between the poet and the reader is the mutual understanding of the understated. Poets are playing a game with us. How much…