Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell is a "Caribbean style" science fiction novel with a little bit different style because of that. While I did enjoy the world building, I wasn't initially intrigued enough to jump into the next book in the series. Eventually I did, though, and I loved Buckell's other installments....

A list of interesting words I discovered as I read The Alchemist's Pursuit by Dave Duncan....

Duncan delivers another gripping tale set in the (mostly) historically accurate Venice of yesteryear....

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Pratt goes to great length to tell us how much of a bad ass Mason is, yet we never see that reflected in the unfolding story. It's for that reason that I'm reluctant to go ahead with this series....

Knowing where you spend your time is often the first step in improving your time management. In this post, I take a look at my day to see where I'm spending my time so that I can (hopefully) carve out some more time for writing....

A list of interesting words I discovered while reading The Outstretched Shadow....

A promising start that fizzled out and ultimately led to me putting this one down....

Plenty of danger but little suspense means a fairly bland read....