My Review: Lieutenant Alex Easton (Retired), late of the Gallacian Army, would much prefer to remain in Paris. Among the very tempting fleshpots and far, far away from the cold and dreariness back home in Gallacia. A place they never wanted to return to, and really don’t want to go back to ever again after […]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
My Review: We begin with just the sort of thing that lets the reader know that this story is going to go to some very dark places. Because it begins with three children being abandoned by their father at what appears to be the worst sort of orphanage without a backward glance. We don’t learn […]| 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: “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: 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: As much as I enjoy audiobooks, I don’t listen much to podcasts. Howsomever, last year when I finally realized that a lot of the shorter works nominated for the Hugo Awards were available as podcasts, the penny dropped and I dove in. Last year, I opened my Hugo reviewing with a short work [...]| Escape Reality, Read Fiction!
