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by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
- Rated 5 stars
“However improbable some people think Fairies may be....”

-steward - wrote this review Wednesday, July 1 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Personal Demon

by Kelley Armstrong
- Rated 5 stars
“People looking for a "romance" novel will be disappointed by this novel, which combines 1930's pulp-detective style writing with modern-day fantasy writing about non-human and part-human earthbound beings. As in the old pulps, there is a hint of romance, but details are as earthy and direct as they can be now (unlike in the 1930s when they would have been unmarketable.)”

-steward - wrote this review Tuesday, June 16 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Skin Trade

by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Rated 5 stars
“Much better than the last view, she had been getting way too predictable, but this has some nice twists to it.”

-steward - wrote this review Wednesday, June 10 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Escape from Hell

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
- Rated 3 stars
“A rehash of their previous "Inferno", which was much better. They would have done better to redo the Purgatorio and/or Paradiso. If you've read their version of Inferno, you will be somewhat disappointed.”

-steward - wrote this review Friday, May 15 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Unity

by S. D. Perry
- Rated 4 stars
“Story was good overall, but K.D. Perry would work better as a concept person working alongside with a better storyteller such as Candido or Duane.”

-steward - wrote this review Tuesday, May 5 2009. ( reply | permalink )
The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey From Peasant to International Legend

by Phoolan Devi
- Rated 5 stars
“No wonder so many people from India want to move to the US - the bandits are the true protectors of the people and the government is abominably corrupt!”

-steward - wrote this review Saturday, March 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Out of My Mind: The Discovery of Saunders-Vixen

by Richard Bach
- Rated 4 stars
“If you can get your mind around the possibility of parallel universes branching from small decisions through big ones, and the possibility of communications among those universes, you'll like it.

If you limit your mind to what science can currently measure, you won't like it. Some people probably wouldn't believe the sun existed before the invention of the light meter.”

-steward - wrote this review Tuesday, August 19 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Blowing My Cover : My Life as a CIA Spy

by Lindsay Moran
- Rated 5 stars
“If you want to know about the systemic failures of the US intelligence system that lead to the 9/11/01 attack (for example, that CIA didn't recruit informants with terrorist ties; who else would know about terrorist plans?), this book is a must read. Cheap, too, I got it on a Borders remainders rack.”

-steward - wrote this review Sunday, August 10 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Necronomicon Gnosis

by Asenath Mason
- Rated 5 stars
“If you're into the Gods of the Lovecraftian mythos, or certain crossover Gods such as Hastur, Lilith, Naamah, or Samael, you'll find this chock-full of workings.

If you have no idea what I'm writing about, or it scares the manure out of you, better stay away.”

-steward - wrote this review Monday, August 4 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Blood Noir

by Laurell K. Hamilton, Cynthia Holloway
- Rated 4 stars
“Laurell Hamilton's revenge on those who have been saying her next book will probably last over a ten-second timespan in the vamp world, this is so slow you wonder if she was bespelled by Jean-Claude...”

-steward - wrote this review Wednesday, July 30 2008. ( reply | permalink )