The Silkworm Robert Galbraith In “The Silkworm,” Robert Galbraith/J.K.Rowling’s second book in the Cormoran Strike series, Rowling deploys her considerable satirical powers against a target she must know intimately: the publishing industry. After solving the Lula Landry case in “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” Cormoran and his secretary-cum-partner Robin are now rolling in business, so Cormoran has […]
Read more "“The Silkworm” by Robert Galbraith"The Cuckoo’s Calling Robert Galbraith Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, everyone. Stop the presses, y’all, because J.K. Rowling is back. Okay, under a different name, but the sharp pen is very definitely the same. I always wondered what she would do once the “Harry Potter” franchise was done. She–very wisely, in my opinion–stopped the series after […]
Read more "“The Cuckoo’s Calling” by Robert Galbraith"“Bloom” is one of the darkest, weirdest, most compelling fantasy romances I’ve read this year, so obviously I had to participate in its blog tour celebrating its free promo this weekend. Here’s the full wraparound cover: The blurb: Given to The Grimm Order as an infant, Fawn was raised in a world shaped by the […]
Read more "Want some dark romance? “Bloom” by Nikki Rae is #Free this weekend!"The Five Daughters of the Moon Leena Likitalo It’s exciting to me to see how many authors are out there writing Russian-themed fantasy. “The Five Daughters of the Moon” is a recent addition to this sub-genre. The setting is clearly an allusion to the Russian Empire just prior to the 1917 Revolution, but the setting […]
Read more "“The Five Daughters of the Moon” by Leena Likitalo"Rock with Wings Anne Hillerman In “Rock with Wings,” Anne Hillerman continues to rework her father’s mystery series set amongst the Navajo police force in the Four Corners region. As with “Spider Woman’s Daughter,” her previous book, she focuses on Bernie Manuelito, the female police officer whom her father introduced late in the series. The […]
Read more "“Rock with Wings” by Anne Hillerman"Spider Woman’s Daughter Anne Hillerman I’ve been a big fan of Tony Hillerman’s mystery novels ever since I first discovered them 20-something years ago. My grandparents were living in Sante Fe at the time, and the whole family started reading the novels. I quickly devoured the whole series. I was thus a little leery of […]
Read more "“Spider Woman’s Daughter” by Anne Hillerman"Fierce Hearts: Women of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Oh my gosh, everyone! It’s yet another fabulous giveaway! My elderly iPad is literally full to bursting and I can’t download any more books to it without deleting the ones that are already there, but I still went and downloaded, like, a dozen or more of these books! […]
Read more "Fierce Hearts: Women of Sci-Fi and Fantasy"New Fantasy Book Giveaway Another week, another book giveaway…this time it’s the New Fantasy Book Giveaway, which has…actually, I lost count, but dozens, anyway, of fantasy books, and all absolutely FREEEEEE! So come mosey on by and see what’s on offer here. I have to confess that I’ve already snagged a few of these tempting […]
Read more "New Fantasy Book Giveaway"The Reinvention of Mimi Finnegan Whitney Dineen Mimi Finnegan has a problem. At the tender age of thirty-four, she’s already developed a bunion, which her doctor attributes to the extra…load she puts on her feet. Since the only thing she believes that makes her stand out in her family of beautiful, high-achieving sisters is her […]
Read more "“The Reinvention of Mimi Finnegan” by Whitney Dineen"The Rusalka Ritual and Other Stories Freya Pickard “The Rusalka Ritual and Other Stories” is a selection of 5 short fantasy stories, all featuring the formidable Dracomagan, in some places a warrior woman in a fantasy world, in others an apparently normal(ish) woman in this world, but always an important and powerful figure. The stories […]
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E. P. Clark: Author, Book Reviewer, and All-Around Literary Handiwoman 