Category: reviews
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Review: Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed
Over the last several years, many prominent titles in the SFF space have taken HP Lovecraft’s work, carved out the virulent racism and left what remains of old Howard Phillips in a pile of bloody viscera on the floor. What’s left is all the Good Stuff: cosmic horror, eldritch abominations with unpronounceable names, and the…
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Review: If Not, Winter
Hashtag Thursday thoughts, transcribed into late-Friday sustenance: Recently finish reading If Not, Winter by Sappho (further praiselavishing down below)* Be doubly bemused, as the least tech-literate millennial you’ll ever meet, at two new features of my constant Internet haunts: (1) That the Kindle Highlights page has moved to a new, mostly more intuitive layout. (2)That now,…
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Review: The Art of Starving
Everybody should read this book. This gut punch of a novel, from one of the best short fiction authors writing today. This term typically makes me roll my eyes, but very quickly as I read Sam J. Miller’s The Art of Starving, I felt like this was an “important” book. And it is. But it’s not just important in…
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The Reads: 2016
Or, Top 5 Lists Are Arbitrary This year I read 54 of my planned 50 books. I like to dedicate November and December to rereading, as a sort of holiday winding down time (and to diving into writing full swing.) Originally I wanted to do a sort of blitz review of all of the books…
jared w. cooper 