Friday, November 12, 2021

Loyalty in Death (In Death #9) by J.D. Robb ★★★★☆

Photograph of the New York skyline prominently featuring Lady Liberty
An old terrorist organization has come back from the dead to threaten New York.

Conspiracy in Death (In Death #8) by J.D. Robb ★★★☆☆

Comic style painting of crazy surgeon with stars in his eyes
Street people are turning up dead with their organs missing. Why would anyone want damaged organs? 

Midnight in Death (In Death #7.5) by J.D. Robb ★★★★☆

Close up half face photograph of a bruised Evan Peters with the captions I'm Not Crazy
David Palmer has escaped! The worst serial killer that Eve ever brought down is back and looking for vengeance.

Holiday in Death (In Death #7) by J.D. Robb ★★★☆☆

Jack Nicolas in The Shining as Santa the caption reads I've Bee Naughty
It’s Eve & Roarkes first family Christmas. They are decorating trees, throwing a party, and learning what it’s like to be happy and normal.

But someone else is celebrating Christmas by dressing up as Santa and killing people violently.

Vengeance in Death (In Death #6) by J.D. Robb ★★★★☆

Paul Bettany in his psycho priest look with the caption He Prayed For Grace, and Prepared for Murder
Someone is killing old friends of Roarkes and calling it holy vengeance. It’s up to Eve to hunt them down but first she has to face the man her husband was, the terror of the dark streets of Dublin.

Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction

A witch casting a spell with the caption Bones Do Not Lie
These Deathless Bones by Cassandra Khaw ★★★★★ 

Prince Joffrey’s witchy step-mother has officially given her last fuck.  It was hard to read, even briefly, about this waste-of-space prince, but it made watching his bones crawl all the more satisfying.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

The Holdout by Graham Moore ★★★★★

Nicole Steinwedell looking concerned with the caption The best thing for everyone involved - everyone who's still alive - is silence.
Best legal thriller ever. 

Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud

A dark Goya style oil painting of the misery of Hell with a caption reading Each Sobbing Plea or Groan of Pain a Supplication to Their Lord Their Bleeding Bodies Were His Portrait Their Wailing Throats His Opening Eye
The Butcher’s Table by Nathan Ballingrud ★★★★★ 
Hideous beauty, confronting and objectionable grace - everything I ever wanted from Clive Barker.  

Friday, November 5, 2021

Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children #1) by Alastair Reynolds ★★★★★

Whales swimming in space with the planet below and moons around them with the caption The Panspermian Imperative: To Assist in the Proliferation of all Living Organisms into Deep Space

Un-for-gett-able. 

A new millennium foundation work of solarpunk and afrofuturism.  It’s hard to believe this has not been snapped up and made into a series.  Fools! 

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Space ship with a planet behind with ominous lightning the caption says Infinite Space Infinite Terror
The Jaunt
★★★★½
 
I was wondering about the sweet family trip to Mars, but then the story had a stopover in Providence and I knew where we were going :)