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by Mercedes Lackey
- Rated 5 stars
“It would have been nice to have a map to show how far Valdemar has grown in the two generations since Vanyel. Maybe she can make this into a four-book series instead of a trilogy...”

-steward - wrote this review Sunday, January 1, 2012. ( reply | permalink )
The 120 Days of Sodom

by Marquis de Sade
- Rated 5 stars
“A splendid political satire, lost completely on the readers of the current generation, but well understood by both the Royal government and its Revolutionary replacement.”

-steward - wrote this review Saturday, December 31, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
Unnatural Issue

by Mercedes Lackey
- Rated 3 stars
“It would be a five if she had a competent author edit out about half of the first 2/3 of the book. Very repetitive and formulaic in the first 2/3... and then finally it gets going.”

-steward - wrote this review Friday, October 14, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
Early to Death, Early to Rise

by Kim Harrison
- Rated 4 stars
“Sputters to a near-stop in the middle, but then really gets going again.”

-steward - wrote this review Thursday, July 21, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
Offshoring Information Technology: Sourcing and Outsourcing to a Global Workforce

by Erran Carmel
- Rated 1 stars
“This book tries to be an IT book and an anthropology book... and fails miserably at both. Universities would be well advised to stay away from this, even if it means making the students get an IT book and a book on dealing with comparative culture.”

-steward - wrote this review Monday, June 20, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
Hit List

by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Rated 4 stars
“Starts off slow the first 50 pages or so, but then gets into high gear. And amazingly, the plot covers a period of more than 24 hours!”

-steward - wrote this review Tuesday, June 14, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
The Genius Wars

by Catherine Jinks
- Rated 4 stars
“The back cover calls this "The thrilling conclusion to the Genius Trilogy".

Not likely. There are so many loose ends to tie up that either

- it's the conclusion because the author's tired of writing it; or

- the author is as good as counting the number of books in a trilogy as Isaac Asimov was with The Foundation Trilogy or Douglas Adams was with the Hitchhiker Trilogy.

An overall good read, but... I wouldn't have bought it in hardcover if I knew it left so many ends untied. I would have waited for the paperback. That said, looking on Amazon on 5/15/2011 makes it look like a lot of other people have caught on to things, because the price for hardcover is the same as a paperback now.”

-steward - wrote this review Sunday, May 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
Kitchen Witch

by Cora Anderson
- Rated 5 stars
“Note that this is a retitled-reprint of the hardcover limited edition Childhood Memories.”

-steward - wrote this review Sunday, March 6, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
Devil's Kiss

by Sarwat Chadda
- Rated 3 stars
“Basically Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Knights Templar conspiracy theories, with a dash of Magical Potter Mommy Protection thrown in. Sparsely written; possibly edited down too much.”

-steward - wrote this review Friday, February 18, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
A Thousand Machines

by Gerald Raunig
- Rated 2 stars
“The topic may be interesting, but it is too full of elitist social science jargon, combinedwords, and made-up words to be of any use to the people they want to reach. Typical of the radical-academic set who then wonder why the average person doesn't trust them.”

-steward - wrote this review Monday, December 27, 2010. ( reply | permalink )