Marjorie Kaye's Reviews

Deja Vu: There and back again.

This weekend I read Déjà Vu, one in a series of First Contact novels by sci fi author, Peter Cawdron.   Cawdron’s fascination alien-wise is in the first contact. In his “First Contact series,” Cawdron has written several novels where he imagines the different ways and circumstances where at long last, we encounter aliens–different sentient beings from different planets for the first time. The big…

From: Mallory Muffet, MFT

To: Mary Kontrerie, MFT

Re: Case 3256 (confidential)

Hi Mary, I’d like your advice on what to do on this case. Some info came to light but I may be jumping to conclusions. I’d like to close it out. Here is the transcript, my notes and audio. Can you take a quick look and tell me what you think?

Thanks

Mallory

Notes plus transcript (from audio):

Case 3256 (Builder)

Date:…

My Sweet Satan, for the Hal of it.

My Sweet Satan by Peter Cawdron A review, just for the Hal of it. My Sweet Satan cover My Sweet Satan, by Peter Cawdron, is a science fiction novel with a whodunit twist.

My Sweet Satanbegins with a young girl sitting on a porch. Jasmine is nineteen and busy calibrating the meaning of texts between her and Mike, her boyfriend. Did she say something wrong? What does his sending a smiley…

On Virtual Reality Afterlife–The Southern Reach Trilogy: A Review

Here’s a link to my review of Jeff VanderMeers Area X The Souther Reach Trilogy— Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance

Area X–The Southern Reach Trilogy: Down the Rabbit Hole

Oh What a Tangled Web . . .

A link to my review of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s science fiction novel, The Children of Time, posted on my Virtual Reality Afterlife blog:

Oh, What a Tangled Web . . . a review of The Children of Time

Can you hear me now?

“The Listener”

A Review of Robert McCammon’s novel

***Some Spoilers***

I just finished reading Robert McCammon’s The Listener. Though I enjoyed it, I wish there had been more to the plot and more shading given to his characters. Robert McCammon’s novel “The Listener”

This was unexpected. I have read sixteen McCammon novels. Whether involving the supernatural, an alien invasion or the exotic…

The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea

A review: ARARAT, a novel by Christopher Golden

***Some Spoilers***

Of the three novels that I have read by Christopher Golden, this by far was the strongest in terms of story and characters. I didn’t find the supernatural premise credible. Still, in terms of the creep factor, ARARAT  was very effective. Cover image of Christopher Golden’s novel, Ararat from google images

Two bloggers, Adam and…

If ET Returns Your Call, Pretend You’re not Home.

The Cloud by Ray Hammond, a review

***Some Spoilers***

I read The Cloud, a science fiction novel by Ray Hammond, several weeks ago.

What has stayed with me is the premise, a first contact scenario set in the near future. What disappointed me was the lackluster prose and that his characters lacked depth. They were flatter than the skinniest of crepes.

 When a young researcher, part of a research…

A link to my new story on Strange Fictions:

The Seventh Folding of Willow Sprite

“The Seventh Folding of Willow Sprite”

Is now published on Strange Fictions:

The Seventh Folding of Willow Sprite

McCammon’s Swan Song — Apocalypse Then

McCammon’s Swan Song: A review ***Spoilers***

Colliding worlds, epidemics, vampires, aliens, zombies–writers just love ending the world and we just love reading about how it all goes down.

Everyone dies, except us–or those characters who are our surrogates. One particularly gruesome ending has fallen out of favor–World War III with its mushroom clouds and the President in the War Room agonizing…

Aztec Autumn: A review

 Like AZTEC, Gary Jenning’s novel published in 1980, Jennings’ sequel, AZTEC AUTUMN. published in 1997, takes place in 16th century Mexico.

The novel AZTEC, as I remember it, was so vivid, the world of the exotic Aztec culture, mystical, sensual and incredibly blood-thirsty, so fascinating that though I remember few details, I remember my reaction–mesmerized. AZTEC AUTUMNb…

Moonlight becomes you; it goes with your lair

The Last Werewolf: A review ***Spoilers***

 THE LAST WEREWOLF, written by British author, Glen Duncan, was published in 2011. THE LAST WEREWOLF is the eighth novel for Duncan and a sequel, TALLULAH RISING followed in 2012. As might be expected, Marlowe, the protagonist of THE LAST WEREWOLF, is a werewolf–“the last werewolf ” he informs the reader in the first person narrative.

The opening…