The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
I was immediately hooked by The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge. As an anthropologist, I had read a number of works by “armchair anthropologists” that tracked the history of science through the Victorian era, the publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species, the gradual unearthing of fossils that called into question a worldview based on counting […]
Truthwitch by Susan Dennard – Another Review
Cindy spoke highly of Truthwitch, by Susan Dennard, so I decided to read it also. Her review of Truthwitch really does a good job of summing up the book, so I won’t cover the same ground. Rather, I’ll report that the book was fun to read and that its fast pace held my interest throughout. The […]
The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron
Writing teachers tell their students to keep a journal, that by writing you learn about yourself. This book gives a twist to that age-old wisdom. First the title, every twelve years everyone in the community forgets everything. To combat the periodic forgetting, everyone carries around a book where they write about their lives so that after the forgetting […]
Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein
Children of the New World is a collection of 13 short stories, each taking place in a different, though future, place and time. I’ll start off by admitting that I’m not usually a fan of short stories. If I’m really enjoying a book, I like to stay with it for a while and really get […]
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter is a fast-paced science fiction/mystery/thriller of a book. It is the story of Jason Dessen, a physics professor who had the possibility to make it big but decided to marry his girlfriend when she became pregnant with his child and settle down. His life is good, if a bit routine and average. When […]
The Reader by Traci Chee
Sefia, the main character of The Reader, had a happy childhood and was loved by her parents and close to her Aunt. However, they had prepared her a hiding place in case something bad happened. One day assassins come and kill her parents and she goes into her secret room where she finds an unusual […]