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Mistaken for Someone Else… Again.
Today, I happened to see a review of one of Paul B. Spence’s novels, posted back in 2020, stating that the reader had decided to give The Remnant a try because ‘the author is also an editor, so at least … Continue reading
First review of The Sleeping and the Dead… at long last.
First Amazon review of Paul’s most recent sci-fi novel, The Sleeping and the Dead: There’s a lot going on in this series at this point. This universe, or the Tebreyverse as I like to call it, has expanded in epic … Continue reading
…more popular than “populace”…
(Alternative title: “Sometimes, he has many, many complaints about a novel and some concerns about reviewing it.”) Remember when, several weeks ago, I shared a short poem by Robert Frost, along with an explanation of the difference between populous and … Continue reading
Review: Gemini, by Randy Eberle
I read half of it, and that’s more than enough. Here’s my halfway-through-the-book review: The writing is so awkward and bland that even scenes such as the particularly ugly violence in the first chapter fail to have any emotional impact. … Continue reading
Review: Unveiled, by A. D. Trosper
After a young woman’s mother dies, she finds out her absent father is an angel, and then she is contacted by reapers who tell her that she’s to learn how to be one of them and lead souls to their … Continue reading
Review: The Immorality Clause, by Brian Parker
Given the subject matter (the “inciting incident” is the murder of a customer at a sex-bot brothel), I was surprised and pleased by the lack of gratuitous detail in certain scenes. Only once is there a “graphic sex scene” (a … Continue reading
Should authors write book reviews?
Some people say writers shouldn’t review books (because reasons), but I’ve also heard it said that non-writers shouldn’t review books: “I’m not a writer. I don’t even know how to write a book, so I’m not qualified to say whether … Continue reading
Really, really short “reviews”: Dead Boys and City of Stairs
I have recently finished reading both Gabriel Squailia’s Dead Boys and Robert Jackson Bennett’s City of Stairs. They’re well-written. The characters are interesting and very relatable, the plots are complex without being confusing, and the settings are amazing. Worldbuilding without info-dumping — … Continue reading
trying to catch up: book reviews
I am so far behind on writing more pseudo-reviews that it’s scary. These are some of the books I’ll write real pseudo-reviews on later as I attempt to get caught up: Bless Your Mechanical Heart, edited by Jennifer Brozek: recommended … Continue reading
a (pseudo)review of Nat Russo’s novel Necromancer Awakening
So here’s my honest opinion of this novel: The writing, in terms of stringing words together into sentences, was done well: no wonky punctuation, no bizarre grammar, no confusing misspellings. The author did misuse the word decimate (twice), but that’s a … Continue reading
North of Andover 