Monthly Archives: October 2008

Grey is an almost-dizzyingly-inventive science-fiction romance. Sweetly compelling. At first, I thought it was going to be too stylistic for its own good, but the events (and the fashion!) going relentlessly over the top worked very well.

The Study series sputters to a close. Oh, yay, Yelena, the most powerful magician of her kind EVAR, wins the day with the help of her adoring posse, her silent assassin heart-mate <3, and not just one but TWO psychic … Continue reading →

#54: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne): Classic SF, still highly readable and inventive. Really fun to read the cranky professor’s lines in a “For Science!” voice from campy ’50s SF films. #55, 56: Poison Study, Magic … Continue reading →

Most of the Iain Banks books I’ve read have been of the M variety — i.e., science fiction. The non-M books have been thrillers, excepting the one that was merely almost science fiction. This one is a slowly-building family drama, … Continue reading →