The Lost Child of Lychford is the sequel to The Witches of Lychford, and I don’t think it’s gonna make much sense if you haven’t read the first one. However, it’s a nice little addition to the world Cornell has created and I enjoyed it. I will be keeping my eyes on further books in this series/world and I’ll definitely check out Cornell’s other books. As it was established in the first book, Lychford is an important town located at the crossroads of many worlds. […]
Three Women against all the forces of evil
The Witches of Lychford is a quiet little novella about a small town in England and the supernatural forces that influence it. The book takes the three spheres of faith, science, and magic and looks at how those three things work together to shape the reality of the world Cornell has created. I really enjoyed it and quickly picked up the follow up when I finished it. Lychford, for whatever reason, sits at the center of the roads between the many supernatural worlds and our […]
I just wasn’t into this multi-Doctor meet-up :(
I don’t remember where I heard about this comic, just that I did, and immediately reserved it at my library. Watching the 50th Anniversary special a couple of years ago was one of the best fictional experiences I’ve ever had, so I was looking to recreate the feeling a little. Alas, this comic does not manage to convey the feeling of a Doctor Meet-Up, and honestly for me it didn’t even convey “Doctor Who.” I suppose if this had been a TV episode or even […]
I’m a nice man.
Rogues was my second George R.R. Martin/Gardner Dozois themed anthology in less than six months, and I’m happy to say I enjoyed it more overall than their previous effort, Dangerous Women. (I will pick up Warriors eventually. Maybe next year. I’m soooo done with anthologies for now.) And I’m sad to say, especially for how good Martin is at writing lady characters, I really think the main difference is that a lot of genre writers (including women!) just could not fathom how to write a […]