Set
in a breathtaking world, Tress is the fairy tale with a science fiction
backbone that I always wanted to read.
With a heroine caught between following her
heart on a terrifying journey, doing what is right, and doing what is
practical, and rich and complex characters that aren’t just background filler,
I remembered why I love reading. Besides, who doesn’t enjoy a good pirate
adventure?
Sometimes, a pithy, thought-provoking novel with an ending I never saw coming is what I’m
looking for, but other times I really just want a rollicking space comedy, and
Starship Repo sure delivers.
Set in a universe where humans are a novelty and
giant space crabs, sentient boulders, and creatures made up of a collective of
autonomous organs are the norm, everything is alien yet it’s a shockingly familiar tale of a group of lovable, misfit, almost-criminals walking the fine
line of the law. The humor is a little crude, but I laughed out loud more than
once.
Starship Repo is a fast-paced romp through the galaxy from Patrick S. Tomlinson.
Firstname Lastname is a no one with nowhere to go. With a name that is the result of an unfortunate clerical error and destined to be one of the only humans on an alien space station. That is until she sneaks aboard a ship and joins up with a crew of repomen (they are definitely not pirates).
Now she's traveling the galaxy "recovering" ships. What could go wrong?
I love Sherlock Holmes, I love Dracula, and I love
mashups, so how could I not love this book? There are few books that I devour
in mere days, but this was one of them.
It’s a beautiful marriage of well-researched Sherlock Holmes and Dracula lore, luring the supernatural into the
logical and tipping the scales set by The Hound of the Baskervilles. Equal
parts horror and mystery, this book’s lightning-fast pace kept the pages
turning, and my interest piqued to the very end.
Told through four interlinked cases, this Gothic horror mystery sees Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula join forces to banish a terrible enemy
1902. Sherlock Holmes's latest case begins with a severed finger. With no signs of decomposition and an adverse reaction to silver, it is the most perplexing mystery yet - one that relates to their next client - and the moment Sherlock's and Watson's lives are irrevocably changed.
A Transylvanian nobleman called Count Dracula arrives at Baker Street seeking Sherlock's help, for his beloved wife Mina has been kidnapped. But Dracula is a client like no other and Sherlock…
“We the jury find the defendant, Rachel Iris Chester, guilty.” With those words, Sylvia Harbinger’s life as an NYPD detective is over.
Sylvia is done with serial killers, done with therapy, and done with a New York City now rife with WHISPs—the creepy, grey shadows of her nightmares. She and husband Ben have a deal. She retires and they both move to Montana to escape the WHISP phenomenon. It is the only way to save their marriage after the Chester case, even if it leaves their WHISP-affected son, Lincoln, behind.
Then the phone rings. Chester’s in jail, yet there’s been a copycat murder, and Sylvia can’t let the case go. If she missed something the first time, this new blood is on her hands. Ben gives her a month to work the case, but can their marriage survive that long? And as Sylvia digs deeper into the depths of the source of her phobia, how long will her sanity survive?
