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A collection that’s a little all over the place, but wholly enjoyable

Hex Life by Christopher Golden, Rachel Autumn Deering

May 22, 2022 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

I do not think I am the target reader for a short story. I value stories that have complete resolutions. I want characters that have had the chance to rise and fall, succeed and fail, and sometimes more than once. These things are not always the aim of a short story. I get that, and yet I keep going back to these collections. This is one of the first collections that I have read that are all written by different authors. Though each story centers […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: alma katsu, Amber Benson, Angela Slatter, Ania Ahlborn, chesya burke, Christopher Golden, Rachel Autumn Deering, helen marshall, hillary monahan, Jennifer McMahon, Kat Howard, Kelley Armstrong, kristin dearborn, madaug kenyon, Mary SanGiovanni, rachel autumn deering, Rachel Caine, Sarah Langan, sherrilyn kenyon, tananarive due, theodora goss

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: alma katsu, Amber Benson, Angela Slatter, Ania Ahlborn, chesya burke, Christopher Golden, Rachel Autumn Deering, helen marshall, hillary monahan, Jennifer McMahon, Kat Howard, Kelley Armstrong, kristin dearborn, madaug kenyon, Mary SanGiovanni, rachel autumn deering, Rachel Caine, Sarah Langan, sherrilyn kenyon, tananarive due, theodora goss ·
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How I Met Your Monster

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter: The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club Book 1 by Theodora Goss

February 2, 2022 by ElCicco 1 Comment

This YA novel, the first in a trilogy, introduces the reader to the members of the Athena Club. It is their origin story. What is the Athena Club? It is a group of young women in London ca. 1900 who have one thing in common — a monstrous past! They are Mary Jekyll, Diana Hyde, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein and Beatrice Rappaccini. A series of gruesome murders of prostitutes will bring these young women together with a little help from none other than Sherlock Holmes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr14, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ElCicco, Fiction, Frankenstein, Rappaccini’s Daughter, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, theodora goss

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr14, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, ElCicco, Fiction, Frankenstein, Rappaccini’s Daughter, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, theodora goss ·
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Girl Power Monsters

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

July 14, 2020 by LanierHgts Leave a Comment

Mary Jekyll, daughter of the famous Dr. Jekyll, finds herself trying to solve the mysteries of her father’s past.  Along the way, she meets the off-spring of several of literature’s most famous characters – Dr. Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau and Dr. Rappaccini.  Together with Sherlock Holmes and his trusty side kick Dr. Watson, her formidable housekeeper Mrs. Poole, and scullery maid Alice, the ladies join forces to help solve the Whitechapel murders (aka Jack the Ripper).   That’s a lot to unpack in a book. […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, girl power, monsters, theodora goss

LanierHgts's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, girl power, monsters, theodora goss ·
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Here there and everywhere

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

Orphans of Empire by Helen Berry

May 21, 2020 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

This is hopefully my last catch up post. I’ve got one more individual review to write and then I’m up to speed with everything I’ve read so far this year, thank the goodness. Here goes. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven is one of my all time favorite books so maybe my expectations were just too high for this one. I enjoyed The Glass Hotel, I really did, but of all the books I’m catching up on, it’s not one I’m singling out for […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Emily St. John Mandel, Helen Berry, theodora goss

lowercasesee's CBR12 Review No:38 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Emily St. John Mandel, Helen Berry, theodora goss ·
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When adventures are actually hard stuff and the characters are made all the better for it

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss

January 31, 2020 by zinka 1 Comment

I love it when I come across fiction of the fantasy and science fiction variety that I can and want to devour ravenously. This happened in college when I discovered Octavia Butler and then read everything she’d ever written in a week and last year when a friend introduced me to N.K. Jemisin and spent several months reading two of her series. This only ever happens with fiction for me and I think I may be doing the same with Goss, albeit a bit slower […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: theodora goss

zinka's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: theodora goss ·
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Amid every adventure is also drudgery, lady adventures have a specific kind

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

January 25, 2020 by zinka 2 Comments

This is the first book I read as a direct result of a Cannonball review, so thank you very very much to long_pig_tailor for that! The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter begins with the death of Mary Jekyll’s mother, and with a host of characters that you eventually meet breaking the fourth wall to add commentary to the story. With her mother’s death, Mary is left destitute and must dismiss all of her staff, excepting her housekeeper Ms. Poole who refuses to leave having […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: theodora goss

zinka's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: theodora goss ·
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