Feeling: sleepy (Review of Part one of the Ancient Mirrors Series The Dragon Queen) In the second Ancient Mirrors tale, author Jayel Gibson continues the tale of Ædracmoræ two decades past the reunion of Ædracmoræ by the Dragon Queen, Yávië. (Refer The Dragon Queen – An Ancient Mirrors Tale). The Wrekening tells the story of Cwen, [...]
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Book Review – The Wrekening by Jayel Gibson
July 25th, 2008 2 Comments
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Book Review: The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, Edited by Otto Penzler
July 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
During the Great Depression, many authors wrote stories at a penny a word to make ends meet. Some of these authors wrote up to a million words a year, usually in the form of detective stories, mysteries and thrillers. A lot of these stories, featuring smart, cynical but brave detectives, were first printed in [...]
Tags: black lizard · Captain Jerry Frost · Cornell Woolrich · dames · Dashiell Hammett · detectives · Erle Stanley Gardner · fiction · heroes · Phillipe Marlowe · pulp · pulp fiction · Raymond Chandler · Sam Spade · villains
Book Review: The Dragon Queen
June 22nd, 2008 2 Comments
The Dragon Queen is the first part of the “Ancient Mirrors Tale” series by Jayel Gibson. This tale, based in the fantasy world of Ædracmoræ (pronounced Dracmor), is the story of the guardians Yávië and her companions Nall and Rydén resurrected and sworn to protect Ædracmoræ along with the help of other guardians who also [...]
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Book Review: Crecent Garden
February 20th, 2008 Comments Off
Crescent Garden is written by Christopher Love and is the first book published by Evermore Books. As the tag line says, “A novel of New Orleans, the book is set entirely in New Orleans. Love creates a very tightly written book with the story taking place over 3 days just before Mardi Gras in New [...]
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Heroes and Villains
November 12th, 2007 8 Comments
Feeling: sleepyEvery hero must have a villain to destroy, in order to prove himself a villain hero. But not every villain needs a hero in order to prove himself a villain- Ravan, from The Ramayan