reviews

Killer Rich People and Ancient Monsters Author: Bentley Little The rich are starting to go crazy and kill. One blood soaked villa after another, one slow, erratic, supernatural degeneration after another, one monstrosity after another. Is it all coincidence or is there some sort of link? Reporter Brian Howells thinks there is a link, one that ties back to his long absent father who has begun to leave strange letters and stalk the family, a link that ties into Brian’s own growing bloodlust. Social worker Carrie Daniels is also starting to suspect that something strange is happening in the city; she [...]

An Unexpected Teenage Savior: Coming of Age in a Medieval Nunnery Author: Lauren Groff The year is 1158, and 17-year-old Marie, who comes from France, has just been banished to a damp, destitute abbey in England, where she is to assume the role of prioress. (The reason for her banishment is a disturbing story unto itself, centering on rape, jealousy, and great desire.) After she arrives on horseback, tall, sharp-featured Marie finds that the work awaiting her at the abbey is not for the faint of heart. With 14 nuns dead from the plague in just one week, and inadequate [...]

A Raistlin Adventure Author: Kevin Stein After reading the Dragonlance Chronicles series and following that with the Twins trilogy, I was firmly enthralled by the sardonic, tricky mage with the golden hourglass eyes: the unforgettable and slightly romantic, deliciously conflicted Raistlin. Not to say that the other characters weren’t also unforgettable and poignantly relatable: Tanis with his complicated choices and divided loyalties, Riverwind and Goldmoon with the staff and a tumultuous destiny, Strum with his unshakable sense of honor, Raistlin’s happy-go-lucky brother Caramon, the grumpy Flint with his longing for the caverns, and even the often times annoying Kender, Tas. But [...]