#sci-fi-ish

I'm still playing catch-up on posting about books that I read last year. And No Gods, No Monsters by Caldwell Turnbull is still resonating in my skull cavern.

I listened to this in audiobook format. It was read by Dion Graham, and that might just have broken me. That voice. My goodness.   What follows is not the best way to recommend this book to you, but it’s all I was able to claw together of my thoughts while listening to it. Others have probably made a lot more sense of the story so far or got a better handle on where it’s all going. I can only…

This was bloody and brilliant! A solid ending to the Molly Southbourne trilogy that I enjoyed just as much as the previous two volumes, The Murders of Molly Southbourne and The Survival of Molly Southbourne. I’ve appreciated the differences between Murders, Survival and Legacy as much as I have the overarching story – from the first book’s blood-bath beginnings, through the second’s meditation on…

I am currently feeling that bone-deep satisfaction that only comes from having read a really good book. Good because it was cleverly put together; good because the characters were engaging and the conclusion was rewarding; good because it had wise things to say about the human condition; but most of all, good because I was able to completely lose myself to the world within its pages. In 1967,…

Quick-fire review: kooky comedy, but everyone’s an a-hole except the nine-year-old. After a six-week whirlwind workplace romance Briddey and Trent are finally going to do it – they’re going to get an EED. This minor surgical procedure will enable them to feel each other’s emotions, so they’ll know just how much they love each other without ever having to say a word. It’s the very latest thing and…

I should have loved everything about The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter from its mash-up of characters from various works of gothic fiction to its found family of discarded and overlooked women. Instead, I found myself only mildly invested in the adventures of Mary Jekyll and friends, annoyed at Sherlock Holmes’ part in the story and very, very irritated by the narration of the…