August '14 Book List
Sep. 30th, 2014 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkerwithoutShort Fiction: Ray Wood's In the Sight of Akresa is a fairly depressing story about denying your true self and letting your lies damn those you care about. Then issues four thru six of John L. Howard's supers series Goon Squad. And finally Hero of Five Points by Alan Gratz is an entertaining bit of "Gangs of New York" steampunk style that serves as an intro to his full length novel series...
Jaye Wells' Dirty Magic is a better-than-average urban fantasy/police procedural. With the War on Potions replacing the War on Drugs...
At the Queen's Command is the first in a trilogy by Michael Stackpole, a fantasy alt history for the American Colonial period. The conflict here is the equivilant to the French/Indian War with the names changed...
The latest Ring of Fire book is from the team of Eric Flint, Georg Huff and Paula Goodlett, 1636: the Vienna Waltz. Mostly set up for bigger events still to come and shake out from mainline events. Still I enjoyed seeing the mostly grown up Barbie Consortium and Sewing Circle entranpeneurs...
The Illana Andrews finally have Kate meet her dad in the latest "Kate Daniels" novel, Magic Breaks. Where I think the main lesson is that he's basically an asshole DM who likes to show off his latest crazy-ass dungeon design...
The Widow's House continues Daniel Abraham's "the Dagger and the Coin", with more heroic bankers vs. the evil empire and its mad priest hood. Also a depressive dragon...
Bluebell Hall by Kayla Basha is a cute little YA romance set at a magical girls school...
I think what draws me to the cheaper self-puplished supers stuff like R.J. Ross's Steampunk Time (latest "Cape High") is nostalgia for being college age and part of the "Superguy" mailing list. Though this latest of Ross' fluffy supers series does go a beat deeper into the world building..
The weirdest/intresting-est bit of old Ed McBain "87th Precinct" crime books like Fuzz is police work data tracking in a pre-computerized era...
Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins is difficult to sumarize. Its a bit magical alt history with what seems to be a Russian perspective. And some spies vs. revolutionaries with alien god-like beings in the background. Intriguing but not a quick read...
T. Kingfisher is a pen name for Ursula Vernon, creator of the great ended webcomic Digger. Toad Words & other Stories is a wonderful collection of her fairy tale inspired short fiction...
Scott Meyer's Off to be the Wizard and Spell or High Water are fantasy books where wizards are all people who basically stumbled onto the computer cheat codes for reality...
Finally Chris Moriarty's Spin State is the start of a scifi trilogy where the main FTL transportation slowly degrades your memory. Leaving people dependant on electronic back-ups to maintain the accuracy of their own past. This book concentrates on a military commando forced to confront the past she hoped to have buried in order to solve a murder and keep a political crisis from blowing up...
Total Books: 14
Jaye Wells' Dirty Magic is a better-than-average urban fantasy/police procedural. With the War on Potions replacing the War on Drugs...
At the Queen's Command is the first in a trilogy by Michael Stackpole, a fantasy alt history for the American Colonial period. The conflict here is the equivilant to the French/Indian War with the names changed...
The latest Ring of Fire book is from the team of Eric Flint, Georg Huff and Paula Goodlett, 1636: the Vienna Waltz. Mostly set up for bigger events still to come and shake out from mainline events. Still I enjoyed seeing the mostly grown up Barbie Consortium and Sewing Circle entranpeneurs...
The Illana Andrews finally have Kate meet her dad in the latest "Kate Daniels" novel, Magic Breaks. Where I think the main lesson is that he's basically an asshole DM who likes to show off his latest crazy-ass dungeon design...
The Widow's House continues Daniel Abraham's "the Dagger and the Coin", with more heroic bankers vs. the evil empire and its mad priest hood. Also a depressive dragon...
Bluebell Hall by Kayla Basha is a cute little YA romance set at a magical girls school...
I think what draws me to the cheaper self-puplished supers stuff like R.J. Ross's Steampunk Time (latest "Cape High") is nostalgia for being college age and part of the "Superguy" mailing list. Though this latest of Ross' fluffy supers series does go a beat deeper into the world building..
The weirdest/intresting-est bit of old Ed McBain "87th Precinct" crime books like Fuzz is police work data tracking in a pre-computerized era...
Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins is difficult to sumarize. Its a bit magical alt history with what seems to be a Russian perspective. And some spies vs. revolutionaries with alien god-like beings in the background. Intriguing but not a quick read...
T. Kingfisher is a pen name for Ursula Vernon, creator of the great ended webcomic Digger. Toad Words & other Stories is a wonderful collection of her fairy tale inspired short fiction...
Scott Meyer's Off to be the Wizard and Spell or High Water are fantasy books where wizards are all people who basically stumbled onto the computer cheat codes for reality...
Finally Chris Moriarty's Spin State is the start of a scifi trilogy where the main FTL transportation slowly degrades your memory. Leaving people dependant on electronic back-ups to maintain the accuracy of their own past. This book concentrates on a military commando forced to confront the past she hoped to have buried in order to solve a murder and keep a political crisis from blowing up...
Total Books: 14
