Blog, Page 9

As in Laura Dave’s other books, you get well-developed characters, a great sense of place, good dialog, an interesting central mystery, and a depth of emotion and...

This is one of those books that I always looked forward to picking up and jumping back into. The characters are great and there are a ton of genuinely laugh-out-l...

(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).

The good Once you realize what’s going on, it’s a powerful and emotional story that sticks with you for a while. Telling the story from the per...

An entertaining second entry in the series.

The good This book series knows what it’s about—space military battles—and doesn’t try to do much more than that. If you’re into spaceships, rail guns, s...

A solid read that I’d recommend to most programmers, and especially anyone at the start of their career. Even if you’re later in your career, you’ll still find so...

On the surface, a very generic fantasy story of wizards, apprentices, orcs, knights, and so on. But the characters are compelling and the plot has just enough mys...

An intriguing mystery that keeps you reading, but the resolution ends up being convoluted and improbable. The characters are intriguing, but the dialog is awful a...

A fun combination of Western and supernatural story: cowboys, angels, demons, gun fights, saloons, magic, and more. All the elements are cliché, but the combinati...