I wasn’t exactly sure of the difference between a Space Opera and a Sci-Fi adventure.  The internet wasn’t too much of a help, but I did learn that Space Opera’s don’t really have anything to do with music.  In fact, it really is just a subcategory of Science Fiction, where the focus is on drama, […]

Humanity has taken to the stars but probably not in a way you’ve imagined.  They didn’t exactly build the starships they crew, but the material needed for the ship was given to them by a sentient mountain, a Massif and certain humans with sensitivity to the mountain can then manipulate the material to design the […]

I loved Suzanne Palmer‘s Finder Chronicles so I was eager to read her newest work. Ode to the Half-Broken is a dystopian story about a sentient robot, Be.  It didn’t feel too similar to Becky Chamber‘s books which is good for me because I didn’t enjoy those too much. I found the pace and technology […]

Robert Jackson Bennet won me over as a teller of unique and unusual stories when I was first introduced to him.  That continues as I read more and more of the book from his imagination.  Locklands is the conclusion to The Founders Trilogy following a group of characters thrown into new and increasingly dangerous situations […]

I saw the cover on The Spellshop awhile ago and was intrigued but I’ve had very hit and miss experiences with Cozy Fantasy.  I was pleasantly surprised that this first book in the Spellshop series had a cute premise, a cool world and a group of characters that were cute and quirky. Keila has lived […]

I loved Suzanne Palmer‘s Finder Chronicles so I was eager to read her newest work. Ode to the Half-Broken is a dystopian story about a sentient robot, Be.  It didn’t feel too similar to Becky Chamber‘s books which is good for me because I didn’t enjoy those too much. I found the pace and technology […]

Welcome to an Island isolated from almost everyone.  A place where, in the dead of winter, various plants thrive and survive in a myriad of various greenhouses enchanted by a now dead Sorcerer.  This is a wonderous world, some greenhouses have plants that sing, others vines that act like snakes; some have an ecosystem set […]

I was happy to see we would get more of the detective Dorothy Gentlemen in her series.  The setting is a sentient space ship headed to a new faraway planet.  There are rules to make sure the inhabitants stay alive until they reach the destination which is hundreds of years of travel.   There is lots […]

Shorefall is the second book the Founders series. This is a series that builds on the prior books and so you need to read them in order to have any idea what is going on. I actually re-read Foundryside right before jumping into Shorefall since it was one of my favorite books of 2018 and […]