Book Review Index: Issue 15 | Geek Speak Magazine

Want to help us keep speaking geek?

Issue 15
May 2011

Book Reviews

ON SHELVES

DEAD RECKONING by Charlaine Harris

"I love Sookie, but I don’t care what cereal she chose to eat on Monday. I expected that any second Sookie was going to go over a grocery list just so Charlaine Harris could fill a page." -- Sara Paige

DREADNAUGHT by Jack Campbell

"The sheer compulsive readability of this series makes up for any quibble. It really is just very, very good.." -- Rachel Hyland

HARD BITTEN by Chloe Neill

"This book is unreservedly tremendous, the best of the series yet, and I since have long been a fan of this series to that is really saying a whole lotta something." -- Rachel Hyland

STARGATE ATLANTIS #17 THE LOST by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold

"I said that the first book was like the first episodes of a new season, and this book is a continuation of that season." -- Geonn Cannon

STARGATE SG-1 #17 SUNRISE by J. Francis Crane

"This was like watching a repeat of an episode you'd seen years before and thought was only okay back then." -- Geonn Cannon

THE NEON GRAVEYARD by Vicki Pettersson

"I think the concept is one of the most outstandingly original and utterly enchanting mashups the expansive subgenre has ever produced." -- Rachel Hyland

IN THE STACKS
Our topic this month: Magic!

FURIES OF CALDERON by Jim Butcher

"This is not a perfect book, by any means, and is possibly the weakest of the series. But it's certainly not bad." -- K. Burtt

MURDER BY MAGIC edited by Rosemary Edghill

"Some stories focus on the use of magic as the method for investigating a crime, others have magic as the means to cause the crime. And some, in a major plot twist, don’t even deal with murder at all!" -- K. Burtt

SHADOW KING by Gav Thorpe

"Finally, a good guy who wants revenge, who wants to cause some serious pain to someone..." -- Jason Murdoch

STORM FRONT by Jim Butcher

"The only wizard named Harry worth reading." -- K. Burtt

THE EYE OF THE WORLD by Robert Jordan

"Despite all the issues faced with the series as it continued, this is actually quite a good book. Verbose, yes. Many characters, yes. But it's all handled very well." -- K. Burtt

THE HARROWING OF GWYNEDD by Katherine Kurtz

"When fans of the Deryni series talk about their favorite books, The Harrowing of Gwynedd rarely comes up. This is unsurprising. It is -- make no mistake -- very bleak and sad." -- Kate Nagy

THE STEPSISTER SCHEME by Jim C. Hines

"Something you should know about this book. It is dark. Seriously dark. You might expect a Pegasus in a book like this, but you don't expect it to be viciously attacked until its wings bleed." -- Geonn Cannon

Our topic next month:

The Apocalypse

HOME