Shadow Ops: Control Point - Book Review
by Myke Cole
Ace; Original edition 2012
ISBN: 978-1937007249
Reviewed by B.J. Keeton
If there’s one thing I love in the world more than anything else, it’s literature that plays with genre conventions. So when I read about Myke Cole’s Shadow Ops: Control Point, I rushed over to Amazon and clicked the the button to send it to my Kindle.
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On The Edge
Author: Ilona Andrews
Publisher: Ace Fantasy
ISBN-10: 0441017800
ISBN-13: 978-0441017805
Rating: 5/10
There are fantasy novels and there are fantasy novels. The first kind is hypnotic, almost like a drug, constantly revealing something new with each chapter. The second kind? Not so much. On the Edge is, unfortunately, the latter. Sure, it’s got all the elements readers have come to expect over the years-action, steamy romances, and enough bumps in the night to keep even the Cryptkeeper awake. But that’s all it’s got.
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Future Americas
Author: John Heller and Martin Greenberg, Eds.
Publisher: Daw Books
ISBN-13: 9780756405083
Rating: 8/10
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Dinosaur Valley Girls
“Science Fiction B movie Classic becomes C book”
Author: Donald F. Glut
Publisher: Sense of Wonder Press
ISBN-10: 091873665X
ISBN-13: 978-0918736659
Rating: 5/10
Some books are highbrow, others middlebrow, and then there is “Dinosaur Valley Girls”. From the outset the adaptation of Donald Glut’s 90 minute, B-movie Sci-Fi cult classic of the same name is anything but pretentious. In fact, it’s so campy and unpretentious some might call it fatuous. Yet its precise lack of seriousness is what makes the story enjoyable, in the same way that chocolate pudding is enjoyable-tasty, but not to be confused with carrots or broccoli. While it might not meet the rigorous standards of some readers it gets the job done.
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Passage
Author: Connie Willis
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN-10: 0553580515
ISBN-13: 978-0553580518
Connie Willis has always been known for her ability to write stories that fly through time as fast and with as much agility as an Area 51 test craft. In Passage Willis uses all of that skill and the art of making you care for characters that is the hallmark of all good fiction. She spends 800 pages flirting with NDE, near death experience, and though at times the reader may be nearly as tired as the medical researcher Joanna Lander the protagonist of this book, it is worth the journey.
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The Boy Who Would Live Forever
A review of the novel by Fredrik Pohl & A tribute to his life.
Book 6 of The Gateway Series
Tor Books
ISBN-10: 0765349353
ISBN-13: 978-0765349354
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Monster Nation
A Zombie Novel
by David Wellington
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN-10: 1560258667
ISBN-13: 978-1560258667
Alexis de Tocqueville once said that the only thing worse than a tyranny of the minority is a tyranny of the majority. In other words, mob rule. But what does one call a horde of undead descending on the American Heartland, devouring men, women and children and rendering entire governments obsolete? What if the dead aren’t really…dead? Those are just a few of the questions David Wellington poses in his doomsday thriller “Monster Nation”, and while it doesn’t rise to the level of a Steven King novel, the bizarre, surreal wasteland America that Wellington paints is more than a cure for narcolepsy.
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Raven’s Shadow
The Raven Duology - Book 1
by Patricia Briggs
Mass Market PB: 352 pages
Publisher: Ace
ISBN-10: 044101187X
ISBN-13: 978-0441011872
Fantasy books, in general, are hard to get into. Most lack the kind of non-stop action and suspense needed to suspend disbelief—especially for a male audience. Then there are the soap opera style plots, incestuous and convoluted in their design. While Patricia Brigg’s “Raven’s Shadow” is no different, it demonstrates the versatility that we have come to expect from the creator of the Mercy Thompson series. For that reason alone, the novel is worth reading, Read More→
