The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
I found it to be a lyrical and imaginative story. Granted it requires the “suspension of disbelief” but if you can just let the story flow the mix of fantasy and folklore is beautiful.
Tag: Speculative fiction
Hell and Beyond by Michael Phillips
While I am not in any way offended by his unorthodox views on these issues and/or his attempts to explore them in fiction. I found the overall effect rather flat. It seems a little too much like a CS Lewis Pilgrims Progress mashup.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
In typical Gaiman fashion, this story draws you by both making you feel a part of the story but also leaving mystery and the unknown to play their roles. Gaiman never comes across as trying too hard to make everything fit together perfectly in a technical world building exercise. Instead he draws you in through his characters and the way they see the world; the way the world feels, and looks and works to them. He is not trying to explain the world but show you the world through another set of eyes.
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Six-Gun Snow White seemed like the perfect book for me: From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one the best known fairy tales of all time. In the novella Six-Gun Snow White, Valente transports the title s heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West …
The Book of Neil by Frank Turner Hollon
As regular readers of this blog know, I am fascinated by fiction that has a religious or supernatural aspect; particularly creative or unconventional ones. It is likely for this reason that MacAdam Cage sent me The Book of Neil by Frank Turner Hollon (and good for them for sending me a book I …
The Book of Neil by Frank Turner Hollon
As regular readers of this blog know, I am fascinated by fiction that has a religious or supernatural aspect; particularly creative or unconventional ones. It is likely for this reason that MacAdam Cage sent me The Book of Neil by Frank Turner Hollon (and good for them for sending me a book I …
Troll Valley by Lars Walker
Who knows what you call it. But it is engaging, entertaining, often thought provoking and for $3 a real steal.
The Singer by Calvin Miller
For most who live, hell is never knowing who they are. The Singer knew and knowing was his torment. Recalling the popularity of The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict by Calvin Miller when I was younger, and having a vaguely positive recollection of reading and enjoying it as …