Pros: The last quarter gets tense and interesting Cons: The pacing is all off; so-so characters Rating: 3 out of 5 I’m a big fan of Joshua James’s “Lucky’s Marines” books, so when I saw he had co-authored the novella…
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Review: “Lost Mission,” Joshua James, Daniel Young
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Short Take: “The Last Conversation,” Paul Tremblay
Pros: Absolutely riveting Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 In Paul Tremblay’s novella The Last Conversation (Forward collection), the unnamed protagonist wakes up in the dark. He hurts. He has no memory of who he might be. A voice…
Review: “A Lush and Seething Hell,” John Horner Jacobs
Pros: Deliciously eerie Cons: Slow Rating: 4 out of 5 John Horner Jacobs brings us A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror. It includes two novellas/short novels, both in the vein of cosmic horror. In “The Sea…
Short Take: “You Have Arrived at Your Destination,” Amor Towles
Pros: A bizarre look at the future of engineering offspring Cons: The ending Rating: 4 out of 5 Amor Towles’s novella You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward collection) is the next book in Amazon’s Forward Collection. It’s a tale…
Short Take: “Emergency Skin,” N.K. Jemisin
Pros: A beautiful look at what the future could be! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 N.K. Jemisin’s novella Emergency Skin (Forward collection) is told by a “consensus intelligence” implanted in the mind of a soldier. We get to…
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Review: “Dark Hollow,” Brian Keene
Pros: Good horror material Cons: Everything about how the female characters are handled. Rating: 2 out of 5 I picked up Brian Keene’s novel Dark Hollow thanks to Book Twitter, and this may be the second time they’ve let me…
Short Take: “Summer Frost,” Blake Crouch
Pros: Thought-provoking and intense Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 Blake Crouch’s novella Summer Frost (Forward collection) introduces us to Riley, the VP of Non-Player Character Development at a game studio that creates Direct Neural Interface games. One day,…
Review: “Lucky at Last,” Joshua James
Pros: My favorite book of the series-so-far! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 Joshua James’s short novel Lucky At Last: Lucky’s Marines | Book Nine is the climax of the story arc. Emperor April appears to have gone off…
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Short Take: “Ark,” Veronica Roth
Pros: Elegant and beautiful Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 Veronica Roth’s short novella Ark (Forward collection) is not about an apocalypse created by man. Instead, an asteroid is on course to hit the Earth. There are years in…
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