Review: Best Served Cold

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie Brilliant and bloody! Or brilliantly bloody. I had been reading about this book for years. The cover grabbed my attention a few times and friends kept adding it to their bookshelf on Goodreads. I met Joe Abercrombie at a convention, had a nice chat with him (not about hisContinueContinue reading “Review: Best Served Cold”

Review: How To Be a Good Wife

How To Be a Good Wife by Emma ChapmanMarta has always tried to be a good wife and her memory tells her she was, up until her son left home to live in the city, start a life of his own. In his absence, the façade begins to crack. She begins to see and hearContinueContinue reading “Review: How To Be a Good Wife”

Review: Shaman

Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson Shaman is the story of Loon, a young man who comes of age thirty-two thousand years ago, in the paleolithic era. At the beginning of the book, he is stripped naked, pushed out into the rain and told not to come back for two weeks. He is on his shamanContinueContinue reading “Review: Shaman”