Monday With Mildred: “Gideon the Ninth”
Gideon the Ninth Climb aboard the trope train conducted by New Zealand writer Tamsyn Muir as she necromances a series of tired to death tropes, pairing some of them in […]
Category Archives: Book Review
Reviews of books.
Monday With Mildred: “The Truth About Belle Gunness”
The Truth About Belle Gunness: The True Story of Notorious Serial Killer Hell’s Belle After finally discovering this book was first released in 1955 my first thought was author Lillian […]
Monday With Mildred: “Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror”
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror A cursory examination of horror fiction before and after one of the most significant wars in the long history of […]
Monday With Mildred: “The Empress of Salt and Fortune”
The Empress of Salt and Fortune It won’t take long for you to read this very short book. The first thing you will notice, in the first sentence, is the […]
Monday With Mildred: “The Misadventures of Two Reluctant Zombie Hunters: Zombies at the Con, and, The Misadventures of Two Reluctant Zombie Hunters: Hospitals are Hell”
The Misadventures of Two Reluctant Zombie Hunters: Zombies at the Con, and, The Misadventures of Two Reluctant Zombie Hunters: Hospitals are Hell Zombies are my favorite monster because they’re a […]
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking [“Siege. Sorcery. Sourdough.”] Some wizards have it made. They can cast spells that change the world, or at least make people fear them. Some […]
Monday With Mildred: “The House of Daniel”
The House of Daniel The tagline on the cover says “A Novel of Wild Magic, the Great Depression and Semipro Ball”. Turtledove used to be one of my favorite authors […]
Monday with Mildred: “Shell Game”
Shell Game Sometimes you find a book that blurs the edges around several genres and the author makes it work beautifully. Benny Lawrence has done that with Shell Game, a […]
Monday With Mildred: “Hollow Kingdom”
Hollow Kingdom Now was probably not a great time to read a novel about the zombie apocalypse set in Seattle, where the COVID-19 pandemic got started earlier this year. But […]
Horrorible Review: “Dark Harvest”
Dark Harvest One of the first things you learn as a writer is that you’re supposed to come out swinging with your manuscript, really wow the editor before he can […]
