I’ve just finished Blade Dancer by Sheila Viehl. Here’s another great opening line for you: All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave. This opens a very strange book, but truth to tell, most anything Sheila writes (and she writes in five genres, so that’s…
Coalesce, according to Webster, means ‘to grow or come together, fuse’. This definition describes Coalescent by Stephen Baxter on several levels. It is a science fiction novel, based on fourth century history (the decline and fall of the Roman empire in Britain). Baxter weaves a contemporary timeline with a fourth century one, which *coalesce* towards…
I have just finished reading Wolfskin, by Juliet Marillier. I had one serious problem with the book, which I otherwise enjoyed. The problem? The story doesn’t actually begin until page 130, and it was well past that, at around page 200 of a total of 516, before I got immersed in it. You might wonder…