“Literature” Archives

As with Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, I can absolutely understand why peo…

For better or worse, most fantasy is fairly British in nature. (Blame it on Tolkien.) What initiall…

The ninth installment in the long-running Orphan X series of thrillers trades thrills for overwrought dialog and psychological baggage.

The arrival of this one took me by surprise, simply because the previous Orphan X novel — The Last …

After finishing Sarah Arthur’s Once a Queen and then discovering that she co-founded a festival dev…

If you haven’t read any of Brandon Sanderson’s other novels set in his extensive (some might say, c…

I didn’t realize until I had finished reading The Sky Vault that it’s actually part of a series. Bu…

When I was in grade school, I was enamored with wilderness adventure stories, particularly ones set…

Her latest supernatural thriller is so fascinating precisely because of its use of film history, both real and imagined.

You don’t often read a novel that completely checks some of your boxes. But Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s …

I’ve been on something of a Lloyd Alexander kick lately, and with The Illyrian Adventure, I think I…

Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark trilogy — which takes place in a pseudo-historical alternative to Revolu…

Inspired by the biblical book of Daniel, The Mercy of Gods will be released next August.

It may have won the Hugo Award for best novella, but I was surprisingly underwhelmed by All Systems…

While I enjoyed Westmark, I struggled with The Kestrel. At less than 250 pages, The Kestrel is not …

Charlie Fitzer is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher barely living from paycheck to paycheck. Wh…

Lloyd Alexander is best known for his Welsh-inspired high fantasy series, The Chronicles of Prydain…

Having recently finished and enjoyed his Final Architecture trilogy, I wanted to read some more of …

From my full review on Christ and Pop Culture: [W]hat is the goal of The Ballot and the Bible? I be…

James S. A. Corey’s Expanse series remains my gold standard for galaxy-spanning space opera, but Ad…