Rating: 4 out of 5 Alan Baxter’s Obsidian (Alex Caine) (Volume 2) makes for a really interesting follow-on to book one. In Bound, Alex Caine discovers he has powers–a lot of them. He’s tossed head-first into the world of magic…
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Short Take: “White,” Tim Lebbon
Rating: 4 out of 5 In Tim Lebbon’s novella White, a bunch of people are stuck in a manor house during a wintry apocalypse. They know little about what’s going on out in the world, but enough to know they…
Review: “Alien: Into Charybdis,” Alex White
Rating: 5 out of 5 Alex White’s Alien: Into Charybdis is sort of a follow-on to his Alien: The Cold Forge. You probably don’t need to read that one first, and you’ll spend the first half or more of this…
Review: “Alien: The Cold Forge,” Alex White
Rating: 5 out of 5 I’m a total sucker for “Alien”-franchise books, and Alien: The Cold Forge, by Alex White, is just the right blend of sci-fi and horror. Dorian Sudler, the director of special resources for Weyland-Yutani, is on…
Review: “The Cellar,” Richard Laymon
Rating: 1 out of 5 This time I’m going to put the content note right up front, because it’s important. DO NOT read this book if you don’t want to deal with child molestation and rape. (Also slurs, victim-blaming, murder,…
Review: “The Debt,” Natalie Edwards, T.C. Parker
Rating: 5 out of 5 Note: this book was originally published under the name “Natalie Edwards,” but is currently being published under “T.C. Parker.” T.C. Parker’s thriller The Debt: El Gardener Book 1 is a wonderful heist-type novel. When El…