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Beautiful story of sexual identity awakening and first love

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

May 11, 2022 by Dome'Loki 4 Comments

And then she asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?” Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a beautiful glimpse into a moment in time of a sexual identity awareness and first love, amidst the Red Scare of McCarthyism in 1950’s San Francisco. Sexual feelings awaken for the first time within Lily Hu but everything she has been taught says it […]

“Sure, why not take your mortally wounded lover and shove her into an ancient machine of uncertain effectiveness? What could go wrong?”

Blood of the Chosen: Burningblade & Silvereye Book Two by Django Wexler

May 2, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

Wexler continues writing excellent sci-fantasy. I love the melding of energy swords and healing magics. A highly, technically advanced civilization that has fallen. Magic is held in the hands of a few, tech is tightly controlled and scrounged from remnants of the previous age. Life is very different depending on where you live, within the Republic, in the splinter kingdoms, or outside on the fringes. Blood of the Chosen picks up immediately after the events of Ashes of the Sun. A potentially humanity ending calamity […]

Fallen highly advanced civilization, tech magic vs. bio magic, and two siblings on opposite sides of the divide.

Ashes of the Sun: Burningblade & Silvereye Book One by Django Wexler

April 26, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

More than 400 years ago there were two powerful entities, the Chosen and those who are now called ghouls. The Chosen wielded a magical power called deiat. With deiat they powered technological marvels like sky fortresses and more mundane blaster pistols. The ghouls channeled a biological magic called dhak. With dhak they could do amazing feats of healing and creation of bio constructs for any application. Dhak could also be twisted to create horrible monsters, plaguespawn, as creatures and humans could be hybridized. 400 hundreds […]

Overall good but appreciated the stories by characters that aren’t Harry Dresden in particular.

Brief Cases by Jim Butcher

April 15, 2022 by Dome'Loki 1 Comment

Last year I listened to the first Dresden Files short story collection, Side Jobs, to be able to listen to the excellent narration by James Marsters (on the recommendation of ardaigle!). Marsters is a great narrator but he fell short when it came time for Karrin Murphy’s story at the end of the book. For the next collection of short stories, Brief Cases, they brought on two female narrators, Cassandra Campbell and Julia Whelan for stories from Anastasia Luccio and Molly Carpenter’s POV. No disrespect to […]

Kaiju fun and a great standalone from Scalzi

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

April 12, 2022 by Dome'Loki 8 Comments

The Kaiju Preservation Society is a fun romp and a refreshing reset of Scalzi, for me. His most recent works, “The Interdependency Saga” (a trilogy), left me feeling ‘meh’. My review for the second book had me questioning whether I was cooling on Scalzi. I still have yet to read the third. When Scalzi announced this book, I was intrigued by the name and that it would be a standalone novel. The Kaiju Preservation Society was preordered, and I’m grateful I did because it provided much […]

“You will be safe as long as you stay away from Gallant”

Gallant by V. E. Schwab

April 9, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

Victoria Schwab: “One of the tricky things about my books is that they’re never written for the same reader. It’s a choice I made, and I stand by, but it also means that someone is invariably disappointed. They might love Shades of Magic, but Vicious doesn’t work for them. They might adore Addie LaRue, but feel let down by Gallant. The found themselves in the center of the reader spot light with one of my books, and then at the edges with another. Some days […]

narfna on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…#BlameMalin on this one for me, too, because she literally sent me a copy.
narfna on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”That's gotta be the new headcanon.
drmllz on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”I like to think the wife packs Hastings off to England to hang out with Poirot and enjoys having a whole ranch to herself...
Emmalita on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…Oh yay! Another #BlameMalin victim. That was an expensive miscommunication. I'm glad your grandmother is ok.
Emmalita on I liked this more as an exercise in boundary pushing for meI have to admit, I really liked this one. But Anita Kelly's whole vibe just works for me. I do have a couple of non...

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