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Heaven’s Bones

Vivisected Angels, Dark Domains, and 19th Century London Author: Samantha Henderson Dr. Sebastian Robarts is a fallen icon, a madman with an obsession. He was unable to save his wife and child, and their deaths, compounded by his medical failure, haunt him. Casting back into everything he learned as a child, he thinks about a ponderous library and a book that swore women were fallen angels. If that is so, he wants his wife to have her wings back. He won’t fail a second time, and he’ll do anything and everything to make his macabre dream come true whatever the cost. [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-08T15:39:37-07:00September 29th, 2021|Tags: book review, dark fantasy, fantasy, horror, Ravenloft, reading, steampunk|

Interference

War of the Species Author: Sue Burke Life on Pax continues; the colonists and Steveland, the sentient bamboo-like plant that originally colonized this world, are working through the fallout of their initial interactions with the Glassmakers and adapting to a new, diverse, but technologically impaired society. But life on earth 55 light years away – that’s entirely different. Earth may be a legend passed down through the Pax generations, but the scientists on a now very dystopian (and blood thirsty planet) have never forgotten the team sent to find something better in the stars. And now, they’re looking for them and [...]

Frances Carden2021-09-25T18:22:13-07:00September 25th, 2021|Tags: book review, book reviews, read, reading, sci-fi, science fiction|

Oracle Year, The

A Promising Thriller That Looses Itself Author: Charles Soule Will Dando had a dream, and it’s coming true, piece by dreadful piece. Overnight, he went from being a barely-making-it-bassist in New York to a secret figure who controls countries, corporations, and the future. He doesn’t want any of it, but he’s in too deep now. He’s the Oracle, and protecting his identity has become the key to survival. It started when he posted his predictions, some small and innocuous, others world shaking, on The Site, and they keep coming true. Everyone wants to know who this secret person is and if [...]

Frances Carden2021-09-24T16:01:19-07:00September 24th, 2021|Tags: book review, botm, reading, thriller|