Note: Not all the books were published in 2018. I just wanted to share with you eight titles I've read this year and have really liked. Okay, here we go, in no particular order! Pride and Prometheus—John Kessel Derek Newman-Stille, eight-time winner of the Aurora Award for Speculating Canada, is also the editor of the We Shall Be …
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Several of my author peeps post about their favourite books of the year and I think it’s a great idea. We’re not only writers, we’re also readers! This year I dove into books from authors I’ve met or had contact with on social media (except maybe Mary Shelley, but we so would have been tweeps). …
Continue reading Life in My Microcosm: Cait G’s Top Ten Books of 2017!
When a story stays in my head days after I've read it or has a major impact on me, it goes on my reviews list. Su Sokol's Cycling to Asylum is one of those books that will remain with me a good while. In Asylum we meet Laek, a married school teacher and father of two with a …
So, full disclosure: I received an e-ARC of this book from my publisher, in hopes I might give words of praise for it. Even before I met John Haas, and The Reluctant Barbarian had only been pitched to Renaissance at CanCon 2016, this book had me at the title. That would have been enough to intrigue …
I only met Stephen Graham King online, when he asked to write for the Spoonie Authors Network. It took about five minutes for me to like him, and I'm probably exaggerating by four minutes. I'd heard author ’Nathan Bourgoine rave about Stephen's space operas, so I decided to read Soul's Blood, the first of his Maverick Heart Cycle …
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Truth be told, I thought perhaps there was something wrong with author Caroline Fréchette. They kept enthusiastically going on and on and on about some book called Tremontaine, insisting that we all read it. Finally, not wanted to incur Caro's eyebrows of wrath, I bought the eBook version. And now, after reading it, I can say …
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Some people can write a tome and not really tell a decent story, but then authors like ’Nathan Bourgoine can create an entire lifetime—or two—in a short work of fiction that cuts right to the soul. In Memoriam follows the story of James, an editor who has just been given a diagnosis that will debilitate and …
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How am I supposed to resist reading a book that begins with, "When Nathan came to, the dead girl was crying. He was relatively sure she wasn't supposed to do that."? Let me explain the title of this review. Last Thursday while I was taking a walk and about to take a sip of juice, …
Continue reading Making a Living: More Potent than a Toxic Beetle
I met Alexis James on Twitter and when I discovered she was such a lovely person, I wanted to support her by purchasing her books. Well, I started backward and bought Loving Emma before Losing Faith, but she said it was okay, because each book stands on its own. (Each one really does, too!) Both of these stories …
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I have to say something right off the bat: author S.M. Carrière made a liar out of me. Yup, she totally did. And that's because I told people I'm not a vampirey book type of person. Then I read her work, Human, A Shadow Empires Book. Now I'm a big liar, liar pants on fire. This …
Continue reading Human, A Shadows Empires Book: left me enthralled
Cait Gordon—author and editor 