Book Review
People with Holes
In Heather Fowler’s second short fiction collection, People With Holes, the nexus of each story is a hole of some sort, whether literal or figurative. Mixing erotica and magical realism in several of the stories, Fowler explores the...
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Jigsaw Soul
Scott Middlemist’s debut novel follows Arthur Logan, an Iraq War veteran whose experiences in that war have shoved him out of sanity and into PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder); every hour, it seems, is weighted with war memories so...
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The Brazen Serpent Chronicles
In this second book of the fantasy series "The Brazen Serpent Chronicles", R. Dennis Baird has created a landscape deeply rooted in the Western European fantasy tradition and added some tweaks to the standard recipe. Widseth is a young...
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Eirelan
Now that “doorstop” books are nearly commonplace, thanks to J. K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Susanna Clarke, and others, novels of this size are less likely to give potential readers pause. Liam O’Shiel presents readers with a...
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Lords of Dyscrasia
Diary, I tallied the Dissection Theater’s subjects again. So begins the debut novel of Massachusetts native and chemist-by-day Seth Lindberg. This decidedly dark fantasy is heavily influenced by Dante, Poe, Lovecraft, and a great love...
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Chronicles of The Nassidesa
In Chronicles of the Nassidesa: Liadaya First on a Thousand Worlds, the titular character, Liadaya, is one of twenty-seven gods called the Nassidesa, the children of the original seven males and seven females created by a deity who is...
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Chasing the Meridian
In the first of a projected trilogy, Donald W. Bacon introduces a science fiction tale that spans millennia but focuses its narrative on events in the previous two decades. Last survivor of an ancient alien race when our earth was young,...
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The Marriage of Silence and Sin
Author Jacqueline M. Lyon has combined art therapy theory and the words of John Keats, William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, and others to create a contemporary mystery-thriller, a spellbinding journey of familial love...