Artemis is at heart a caper story with a sci-fi backdrop. Jazz is a small time criminal who is offered the chance to make big money doing a job she is capable of, because she’s brilliant, but is outside of her usual parameters. The job of course goes awry – …
“I don’t like time travel and I don’t read much science fiction.” Apparently I’m a liar. Just One Damned Thing After Another is my third science fiction-ish book of the year and deals pretty much solely with time travel and I though it was a blast. Our historian is Madeleine Maxwell (Max) …
A Christmas Carol tends to be one of my selections every year, whether it be in print, on audio, or watching a movie adaptation. It’s just a good story. Ebenezer starts off as an arrogant, obstinate, miserly man, but by the end, he’s generous and warm-hearted, a changed man. I listened …
The Collapsing Empire is my first Scalzi book, but since it’s the first in a new series in a new world that wasn’t a problem. I have to say I really enjoyed it. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it was getting good review and I needed an audio …
The Girl with Ghost Eyes is an enjoyable read, but I felt like it was straddling the line between YA and adult historical fantasy, which threw me off a little. I can’t put my finger on why it felt like that. Li-lin is not a teenager, she’s in her early …
I had never read anything by Charlotte MacLeod until I read her story in Mistletoe Mysteries a couple of weeks ago. When I was looking for a Christmas mystery that I hadn’t read yet, I ran across Rest You Merry. Since her story in the collection had been fine, not …
