As part of Utah Book Month, we’re spotlighting Utah author Dave Wolverton. You can find other posts–including spotlights of other Utah authors, book reviews, book giveaways, contests, and more–related to Utah Book Month at Utah Books. I initially bought Dave Wolverton’s novel as a part of a charity book bomb, but before long it was […]
Archives for August 2013
Review | Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card [Contributor]
2013-08-27 · by ·
Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in Stephen Olson’s series of posts reviewing, contemplating, considering, and discussing Orson Scott Card’s award winning Ender’s Game novels. You can find his other posts on the Ender’s Game series here. The nice thing about Shadows in Flight is that it came out just last year, so I remember very well my […]
Review | Nightingale by David Farland
2013-08-26 · by ·
If you like sparkly vampires, this might be a good segue to more serious fantasy, without giving up all the juice of a good teen romance. If sparkly vampires make you blanch, then you have nothing to worry about. Nightingale, though occasionally dark, is an enjoyable and satisfying story. The worst thing about Nightingale, to […]
Review | City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare
2013-08-23 · by ·
I always like to read the book before seeing the movie. So… with the release of the movie, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones looming, I decided to jump into the book. (From Goodreads) When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder […]
Review | After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
2013-08-22 · by ·
It’s easy to see why Nancy Kress’s After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall has done well with science fiction’s premier awards. Winning the Nebula and the Locus for best novella and garnering a nomination for the Hugo, the story is equally intriguing and gripping. It’s too bad her story flops for failure to […]
Review | Cry Havoc by Keith G. Seegmiller
2013-08-21 · by ·
Every now and then I get lucky. Someone–a publisher, an author–sends me an ARC, a beta edition of their book, or a new release, and I get to be one of the first people to experience a book, to read a new story. Cry Havoc: Book One of the Havoc Journals is just such a […]
Review | Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card [Contributor]
2013-08-20 · by ·
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in the Stephen Olson’s series of posts reviewing, contemplating, considering, and discussing Orson Scott Card’s award winning Ender’s Game novels. You can find his other posts on the Ender’s Game series here. The moment I finished reading Shadow Puppets, I knew I had to find and read Shadow of the Giant as quickly […]
Author Spotlight | Carol Nicolas
2013-08-17 · by ·
It’s Utah Book Month, and today were spotlighting local Utah author and blogger, Carol Nicolas. As we learned about Carol, we found we had a lot in common. Not only is Carol a BYU grad, as both Brittany and I are, but like us she’s a fan of science fiction and fantasy and enjoys quilting […]
Author Guest Post | James A. Moore on writing Seven Forges
2013-08-16 · by ·
SEVEN FORGES, my latest novel, is a sword and sorcery story. Before Robert E. Howard came along and wrote stories of Conan the Barbarian and King Kull, the genre of sword and sorcery fantasy didn’t even exist. Most of the tales along those lines had been fictitious adventures set in a more realistic version of […]
Review | Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card [Contributor]
2013-08-13 · by ·
Editor’s Note: Ender’s Game may be one of the most awaited film adaptations of a novel in recent years, and Stephen Olson is a huge fan of the novel, as well as its sequels. Attack of the Books! will features his weekly review on the novels in the award winning Ender’s Game series. This is the sixth […]
