Today is Father's Day in the United States. If you are a dad, Happy Father's Day. If there's a dad in your life, please wish them a Happy Father's Day for me. Hecate, very much on the other hand, is absolutely NOT a dad - and we're sure she's never been one. Or, for that [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: I’d apologize for the earworm but sometimes misery just demands company. If I’ve got Tears for Fears singing “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” stuck in my head for days and days, so does everyone - perhaps that should be ‘everybody’ - else. And it fits right in with the pop culture nostalgia [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: Lake Michigan is a freshwater lake. There are no bodies of saltwater closer than the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles away. Unless you’re counting the gigantic saltwater tank and the Shedd Aquarium, which Chicago Police Detective Ethan Krol is forced to think about in this puzzle of a [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: I came into this story not quite sure what I was getting into. Probably not helped by reading the “St.” in the title as “Saint” instead of “Street”. I think the “Brotherhood” bit led me astray. But only a bit. The opening of this story was a bit jarring, when the unnamed narrator [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: Bianca Liliana of Damaria has been groomed by her parents to be a slave to her duty. Afflicted with a chronic, intermittently debilitating illness that not even the best healers can identify, Bianca has spent most of her life being told that she’s utterly useless for any role at all, and that the [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: “There’s nothing more disarming than a Jack Russell terrier,” according to Mary Russell’s long-absent rogue of an uncle, Jake Russell. Jake was so much the epitome of the black sheep of the family that he managed to fade completely into the shadows for fourteen long, and often dark, years. But now he’s arrived [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: They say that eavesdroppers never hear anything good about themselves, and that’s certainly true when Archduke Felix of Estarion arrives, in the dead of night, at the castle belonging to Saskia, the Witch Queen of Kitvaria. He’s hoping for a sanctuary that he desperately needs. She’s in conference with her allies, Queen Lorelei [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: The story begins on a saint’s day in one supposedly holy city, and ends on a different saint’s day in a different holy city. Which is just one of MANY ironic twists in the story, as there are absolutely ZERO saints anywhere else in it - and not much in the way of [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: Once upon a time, there were two Ph.D students who fell in love and got married. Then reality set in, a particular academic reality known as the ‘two-body problem’. They are two bodies, both in need of those oh-so-rare tenure track positions, but for both of them to advance in their careers they [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: There are two sayings about home, and they usually contradict each other. There’s the one about home being the place that when you have to go there, they have to take you in, and the one that says you can’t go home again. Darby never thought he’d want to go back to his [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: After scooping up the magically delicious series opener, A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic, I knew it would be impossible for this reader to resist this second book in the Adenashire series. So I didn’t even try, Who could resist this combination of books and dragons? Certainly not this reader. This second book is [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: I’m attempting to be a bit - just a bit - more deliberate in my Hugo reading this year, so I’ll be reviewing all of the Best Novelette nominees before moving on to the Best Short Story nominees. With one exception for Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie because I reviewed that year [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: Kellieth ReinAraneinth is caught between multiple rocks and abundant hard places, as when the story begins they can barely catch their breath. Literally. They may not be human but their breathing and sense of smell are both compromised by on-the-job chemical exposure resulting in a condition that may not quite BE chronic asthma, [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
