What is a good vacation without a good book? (Or am I just that much of an introverted geek?)
Anyway, one of the features of this website is that I regularly review science fiction, fantasy, and horror books and rate them on a scale of 1 to 5 palm trees. Some of these books were already in my collection, some I pick up at a store, and others are sent to me as review copies.
For a list of the books I’ve reviewed to date, go here.
The next six books in the review queue are:
By C.L. Talmadge
From Amazon: Lieutenant Helen Andros, a military physician, is caught in theocratic machinations that almost cost her life. Illegitimate, presumed orphaned, she learns her father’s identity as one of Azgard’s powerful Toltec lords and remains a target for the Temple of Kronos.
By Chris Stuckmann
From Amazon: While many books on anime simply offer a list of “essential titles” and recommendations, Anime Impact goes deeper by showcasing the many voices of anime’s biggest fans. You’ll find many distinct stories that only each specific writer could tell, all painting a fun and surprisingly touching portrait of the true impact of anime over multiple generations. It also explores the impression the medium has left on various fans with detailed discussions on television shows and movies from the 1960s all the way to the present.
By James Gunn
From Amazon: Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo award. This third edition brings the history of science fiction up to date, covering developments over the past forty years–a period that has seen the advent of technologies only imagined in the genre’s Golden Age.
By Juliet Dark
From Amazon: Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly sensual dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are the result of her having written the bestselling book The Sex Lives of Demon Lovers. Callie’s lifelong passion is the intersection of lurid fairy tales and Gothic literature — which is why she’s found herself at Fairwick’s renowned folklore department, living in a once-stately Victorian house that, at first sight, seemed to call her name.
But Callie soon realizes that her dreams are alarmingly real. She has a demon lover — an incubus — and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then Callie makes another startling discovery: Her incubus is not the only mythical creature in Fairwick. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the demon, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult—banishing this supernatural lover from her heart.
(Read my NY Journal of Books review)
By Frank Lesser
From Amazon: Monsters have it tough. Besides being deeply misunderstood, they suffer from very real problems: Mummies have body image issues, Godzilla is going through an existential crisis, and creatures from the black lagoon face discrimination from creatures from the white lagoon. At heart, these monsters are human; after all, you are what you eat. Quirkily illustrated, Sad Monsters hilariously documents the trials and tribulations of all the undead creatures monster-mad readers have grown to love, from vampires and werewolves to chupacabras and sphinxes and even claw-footed bathtubs.
(Read my NY Journal of Books review)
By Sarah Schulman
From Amazon: A dystopian satire about urban mores set in New York sometime in the future, when the city has morphed into an idealized version of itself: where rent is cheap, homelessness is nonexistent, and the only job left is marketing. But all is not as it seems, culminating in a murder committed by a prominent New Yorker and a resulting trial that transfixes the city.
(Read my NY Journal of Books review)
Also in the Queue
- Seed by Rob Ziegler (Read my NY Journal of Books review)
- Dead of Winter by Brian Moreland (Read my NY Journal of Books review)
- That’s What They Want You to Think: Conspiracies Real, Possible, and Paranoid by Paul Simpson (Read my NY Journal of Books review)
- 36 by Martin Berman-Gorvine (Read my NY Journal of Books review)
- Pentacostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles and World-Systsems Culture by Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard
- Star Trek Treknoloogy by Ethan Siegel, PhD
- Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction by James Gunn
- Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV by Diana Adesola Mafe
- The Total Novice’s Guide To UFOs: What You Need To Know (The Total Novice’s Guide) by T.L. Keller
- Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever by Joe Kane
- Echoes of Erebus by Joseph Picard
- Crossed Genres Year One edited by Bart R. Leib and K.T. Holt
- The Code of the Zombie Pirate: How to Become an Undead Master of the High Seas by Scott Kenemore
- Mozart’s Blood by Louise Marley
- Alternate Reality Ain’t What It Used To Be by Ira Nayman
- What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children’s Toys by Ira Nayman
- Ashwood by Cynthia Kraack
- Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller by Ben Tripp
- The Best Paranormal Crime Stories Ever Told edited by Martin H. Greenberg
- Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole: Tales from Haunted Disney World by Kristi Petersen Schoonover
- Journey to Virginland – Epistle 1 by Armen Melikian
- The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle by Harle H. Tinney
- Vampyre 2000: Life to the Lifeless by Christopher F. Benson
- The Gods of Fall: The Immortali by Shawn-Paul Allison
- Tearing the Sky by Jamil Moledina
- Cyberkill by Frank Fiore
- Homecoming by Sue Ann Bowling
- Hell’s Horizon by Darren Shan
- 2012 The Awakening by Bill Douglas
- Archibald Zwick and the Eight Towers by Robert Leslie Palmer
- No Urn for the Ashes by Alison Sawyer Current
- Fallen Embers by Lauri J. Owen
- Zombie, Ohio by Scott Kenemore
- The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher
- Shifting Borderlines by Hammad Azzam
- DJ MacDonald: Book One: A Tale of a Malipayon Warrior by Corie Laraya-Coutts
- Mayhem’s Fountain by J. A. Bove
- Twilight’s Ashes: As Heaven Fades: Book 1 by Auler Ivis
- Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes about the Stars and Legends of the Movies! by Stephen Schochet
- Paranormal Encounters with Steve and Steph by Art Kershaw
- That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore: A Zombie Tale by Matt Mogk
- Nanomagica, Book One of Metropolis Fallen by Norman J. LaFave
- Ex Machina by Jonathan Ball
- Clockfire by Jonathan Ball
- The Childe by C.A. Kunz
- The 2012 Black Hole Killer by Aurthur T. White
- Religion Versus Science by Ron Frost
- Empire of Fear: An Epic Vampire Novel by Brian Stableford
- Dark Canvas by Jody Summers
- The Golden Staff Saga: The Pillar of Light by Christina Neely
- Johnny Paradise by Robert Bernardo
- Zombies vs. Nazis: A Lost History of the Walking Undead by Scott Kenemore
- The Tides of Avarice by John Dahlgren
- Tracking Terra by J.K. Scott
- The Medium Next Door by Maureen Hancock
- Breath of Angel by Karyn Henley
- Dark Territory by J. Gabriel Gates and Charlene Keel
- The Light Bringer by Chris Digiuseppi and Mike Force
- Timehole by John Nielsen
- Chosen by C.M. Reber
- Straight Up: Short Bedtime Stories Easy Reading by Rachel A. Frias
- Raising Unicorns: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Starting and Running a Successful – and Magical! – Unicorn Farm by Jessica S. Marquis
- Apocalypse – How to Survive a Global Crisis by Dan Martin
- The Scroll by Grant R. Jeffrey and Alton L. Gansky
- The Shattering by Karen Healey
- Hicky Knocky by Glenn Cannon
- Sword of the Undead by Steven Fujita
- Genetic Soul Brothers by Wayne E Criss
- Night Shivers by Ed Pessalano
- Dark Solus: An Assassin’s Tale by David Andrew Crawford
- The Immortal Lost by H.R. Phillips
- The Lost Fountain by Peter Andrew Sacco
- Dancing with Eternity by John Patrick Lowrie
- Return the Heart by T.K. Richardson
- A Garden Enclosed by Rudolph Cluke
- Spectra by Joanne Elder
- Remnant: An Anthology by Roland Allnach
- Machinations by J.S. Breving
- Every Savage Can Reproduce by Enid Wilson
- Bridging the Gap: The 7th Day Who was early man Vol. 2 Age of Phenomenal Accomplishments by H. Donald Daae, P. Geol.
- The Atlantis Key, Book 1 by Natalie MacGregor
- The Ordinary Life and Extraordinary Death of Josh Turner by David Treciak
- Hiding Space by Linda Andrews
- Dormant Enhancement by Jack Richards
- The Sixth Sun: A prehistory of man’s next 4300 years by Ted Barber
- Cosmic Conspiracy: Psychic to the Rich and Famous by Patricia McLaine
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Walt Disney World, 2012 Edition by Doug Ingersoll
- Chang Cheng: The Mystery Within by Fernando Bascunan Jr.
- Archimedes’ Claw by Theodore Morrison Homa, MD
- Forever and Again by Melanie A Grice
- The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen by Frank Decaro
- Goodbye Milky Way – An Earth in Jeopardy Adventure by Dan Makaon
- The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition by William Peter Blatty
- All You Can Eat by Richard Harlan Miller
- Antiquitas Lost: The Last of the Shamalans by Robert Louis Smith
- The Boomer’s Guide to Story: A Search for Insight in Literature and Film by Roemer McPhee
- The Years of Magic by J. Lyndon Hickman
- The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminski
- The Pitchfork Diaries (Volume 1) by J S. Bannerman
- Spirit Stones: Unraveling the Mysteries of Western Europe’s Prehistoric Monuments by Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
- The Healers by Donna Labermeier
- The Devil’s Jail: The John Abbott Story by John Ivor Mitchell
- The Book of Neophyte: The Awakening by Stephen Alexander
- Hell Is for Real, Too: A Middle-Aged Accountant’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Hell and Back by Skip Shmuley
- Joshua’s Atlas by Gerald T. Dale
- Cobalt City Blues by Nathan Crowder
- Cobalt City Timeslip edited by C. Dombrowski
- Cobalt City Christmas edited by C. Dombrowski
- Growing Dread: Biopunk Visions edited by C. Dombrowski
- Time Line Warriors by Lee B. Holum
- The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek
- Nightshade (Book 1) by Andrea Cremer
- Bloodrose (Book 3) by Andrea Cremer
- Extinction by Ronald C. Meyer
- Phobos: Mayan Fear by Steve Alten
- Frail Absolute by Deak Istvan
- Forbidden Tome: Hansel and Gretel’s True Tale by Jeffrey Underwood
- Drawn by Marie Lamba
- The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi
- Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine by J. Storrs Hall
- The O’Leary Enigma by Bob Purssell
- The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer
- Assassins…Serial Killers…Corrupt Cops…: Chasing the News in a Skirt and High Heels by Mary Neiswender
- Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon’s Children) by Alastair Reynolds
- Fatal Induction A Professor Bradshaw Mystery (Professor Bradshaw Series) by Bernadette Pajer
- 2010 B.C. Chronicles of Courage by RK Baessler
- Albert of Adelaide: A Novel by Howard Anderson
- Celestians (The Ancients and the Angels, Book One) by M. C. O’Neill
- Broken Angels (Eve of Light, Book I) by Harambee K. Grey-Sun
- Doc’s Rules by Mark Alan Jacobs
- H.I. Tech by Mark Alan Jacobs
- Lifeform by Mark Alan Jacobs
- Matt’s Gift by Carol Lynn Thomas
- 6001 Iceworld: Invasion of the Torterats by W.R. Widerberg
- 6001 The Sleepers by W.R. Widerberg
- Seventh Journey, Book 1 by Robert J.R. Graham
- Aldo’s Fantastical Movie Palace by Jonathan Friesen
- The 13th Tribe by Robert Liparrulo
- Crater by Homer Hickman
- The 5 Moons of Tiiana: The Chronicles of Rez Cantor by Paul T. Harry
- Mickey & Nadika: An Adventure Across Time and Space by Jenna Lindsey
- The Being by Michael Morisaki
- Future Tense: Book 2 by Eddie Upnick
- The Black Isle by Sandi Tan
- The Crystal Channelers and the Last Reincarnation by Sharon Ann Rowland
And more.
I’m also keeping track of books read and to read on Good Reads.
Would you like your book added to the queue? Just send an email telling me about your book to editor@thegenretraveler.com.
I’m also happy to review DVDs and games for the Wii platform … as long as they would appeal to a science fiction, fantasy or horror fan base.
Please note that my reviews are honest and from my personal point of view. If I like a book, I say so. If I don’t like a book, I say so. And I do my best to provide both good and bad points so that my readers can make informed decisions about whether or not the book I’ve reviewed is worth their while. Also, I try to explain why I liked or didn’t like a book because I know that others may have differing thoughts on those points.
Please contact me before shipping anything to me.
Also, please note that at this time I’m not reviewing ebooks … my queue of physical books (which are easier for me to carry around and read) is so long, I honestly can’t say when I’ll get around to reading digital-only books. Besides, I would just print them out anyway, which you are free to do and send me via mail. 😉
Feedback from Author’s I’ve Reviewed
“Thank you for your thorough review of Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes, and the Good Luck Circle. We have had many, but none more complete and professional than yours. Thank you for taking the time.”
Frank McKinney
Author of 3 new bestselling books:
The Tap
Burst This! Frank McKinney’s Bubble-Proof Real Estate Strategies
Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes, and the Good Luck Circle