Children's Fiction ~ Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark Review by: Bluninja29 Opening Thoughts: Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark is a collection of stories based off the TV show Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2003 TV series.) It has 11 Short Stories all based off ...
This is the sweetest juvenile sf book I've read in a long time. 'Cog' follows the eponymous android, designed for realistic human cognition, as he has to make up for a very, very big mistake of a learning experience. Cog has lived happily since their creation-date of some months before with Gina i...
★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.--- Of course, the humans couldn't go alone. There had to be dogs. Because wherever humans went dogs came along. Like rats, only more helpful. Dogs would herd livestock. Dogs would keep watch against the unknown. And, more i...
Aliens: Recent Encounters is a decent collection of stories, most dealing with the consequences of encounters between humans and aliens [duh]. I picked it off the new-book shelf at one of my libraries because I saw that it contained works from some of my favorites - Ursula K. Le Guin, Caitlín R. Kie...
Dragon Coast was the third installation in the Daniel Blackland series, and it brought the trilogy to a satisfying conclusion. The story the second and third books focused on was wrapped up, but the book was left open ended enough that I wouldn't mind returning to this world and these characters aga...
Pacific Fire is the second book in the Daniel Blackland trilogy, and pretty much everything I had to say about the first installation (California Bones) applies to this book as well. The voice is engaging and enjoyable, the world building is fantastic and rich, the characters are interesting and lik...
There's very little about this book that I didn't love. It was one of those books that popped into my life at exactly the right time and hit every chord just right. When I started this book, and read through the opening scenes, I knew I had stumbled across something special. First of all, it's a h...
Like his father before him, Daniel Blackland is an Osteomancer (someone who attains magic by ingesting bones) At the age of 6, Daniel's father fed him his first set of bones hoping to make his son strong. It is a strength Daniel will need in days to come if he is stay alive. Daniel remembers all ...
4.5 to 5 starsHoly crap, what a great read. Imaginative, suspenseful, and fast-paced, Greg Van Eekhout's alternate LA is ruled by a bone eating osteomancer who gets his power from eating the bones of mythic creatures and absorbing their magic. Daniel is a thief, the son of a powerful osteomancer, ...
(I got a copy through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)While I still enjoyed reading about some of the characters I had got to know in the first book, California Bones, I was a little less thrilled this time.I really like the world and magic developed here: dark, treacherous, tricky... L...
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