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You Had Me at “Gladiatorial Princesses”
I meant this post to have more than a single book in it. But it’s been a busy week, I’m behindhand in everything, and Rhonda Mason’s The Empress Game is a perfect example of an incredibly flawed book...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Go Watch Sense8
I have just seen the first six episodes of Sense8. And I may be in love. My constant refrain as I was watching it was how can this be so good? Because on the face of it this is a show I should’ve...
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What Do You Reread For Comfort Or Escape?
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in...
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Conversations Founded On False Assumptions
“I don’t see gender.” Or colour. Or difference. When you hear that, you know it’s the claim and the rallying-cry of someone who’s never had to see difference; never had difference unavoidably brought...
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Falling in Love with Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Archivist Wasp
This book. This book. In the past few years, there’ve been a handful of books I count it a privilege to have read—a handful of books with which I fell instantly and deeply in love. It’s a short list:...
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What Do These Books Have In Common?
This week I want to tell you about several books I really liked, one book that I found entertaining, and one that’s really disappointing. Let me tell you about books! Let me SHARE THE JOY! *ahem* Too...
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Sleeps With Monsters: We’re Still Reading Over Here
This week, I want to tell you—yet again!—about some excellent books I’ve been reading. Because I’m not at Nine Worlds, or going to Worldcon—or any other con for that matter—which means I have plenty of...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Melanie Rawn Answers Five Questions
Today we’re joined by Melanie Rawn, who graciously agreed to answer a few small questions. Her most recent novel, Window Wall, came out earlier this year. Her earlier novels have been the subject of a...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Stephanie Saulter Answers Six Questions
Stephanie Saulter‘s debut ®Evolution trilogy—Gemsigns, Binary, and Regeneration—is an excellent bit of social science fiction. Regeneration has recently come out from Jo Fletcher Books in the UK, and I...
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Sleeps With Monsters: More Books To Talk About Than There Is Time To Read
There are so many books by brilliant authors that I want to talk about, and I can’t read fast enough to keep up. This is immensely frustrating. Just the to-read pile has at least a dozen recent or...
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Sleeps With Monsters: I’m Still Behind On My Reading, Send Help
There’s an appalling sense of guilt associated with my to-be-read pile at this point. It’s only going to get worse, especially since I appear to have signed up to read an extra hundred books between...
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Ruth Frances Long Answers Six Questions
Ruth Long is an Irish author (and Dublin native) who’s written romantic fantasy as R.F. Long and YA as Ruth Frances Long. Her latest novel, A Hollow in the Hills, is the second in a YA trilogy (the...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Jaime Lee Moyer Answers Seven Questions
The third volume in Jaime Lee Moyer’s debut trilogy, Against A Brightening Sky, comes out this month. It brings to a close the sequence begun in Delia’s Shadow and continued in A Barricade in Hell....
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Sleeps With Monsters: Deaths, Edges, Bargains, and the End of the World
I’ve read more short fiction in the last week than I normally read in three months. That works out at three stories: I really don’t read a lot of short fiction. But these three came to me via the...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Strong Female Characters and the Double Standard
Every now and then, I come across a blog post or an article about Strong Female Characters. (Sometimes several come along at once.) Often with the capital letters, usually decrying a simplistic reading...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Sarah McCarry’s Orphic Metamorphoses
According to their marketing, Sarah McCarry’s first three novels are Young Adult books, though there is very little that’s solely young about them. All Our Pretty Songs. Dirty Wings. About A Girl. They...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Early November Reading Edition
There are always so many books, and always so little time. I think I’ve read one hundred and sixty unique titles so far this year, and I’m still falling behind on new and interesting things. Not so far...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Tanya Huff Answers Seven Questions
Today we’re joined by Tanya Huff, whose writing career spans more than two decades and a good handful of subgenres. Whether urban fantasy (her Vicki Nelson series was adapted for television in Canada)...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Some Initial Thoughts Upon Finishing Marvel’s Jessica...
And the first thought is wow. And the second thought is: I didn’t think the Marvel Cinematic Universe was allowed to make anything this good. Or this female-focused. The first season of Jessica Jones...
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Sleeps With Monsters: Don’t We All Want To Read Faster?
My reading has slowed down this autumn. (Well, it’s winter now, and it still hasn’t sped back up.) I’m told this is understandable when one comes to the end of a large and demanding project, but it’s...
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