Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner

(Shalini hates the inverted commas, it seems, and so: This review was posted 1/24/2006 at wotmania.com. Wotmania closed down at the end of August 2009, and most of the members have since migrated to RAFO. I’m moving the review here because, being normally narcissistic, I do not want to lose it. Also, I am currently [...]

Something Wicked This Way Comes; The Illustrated Man – by Ray Bradbury

(This is an amalgamation of two “reviews” originally posted 6/20/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited here and there, for grammar and cohesion. But still, they are blunt and short and somewhat uneloquent. Blame Youth!)
In some [...]

The Dark Mirror by Juliet Marillier

(This “review” was originally posted 6/20/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has not been edited, since I cannot remember the novel in question. Seriously. The cover [I read the blue twilight edition) is lovely, and that is all [...]

The Famished Road, by Ben Okri

(This “review” was originally posted 6/22/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for spelling and grammar. It has NOT been edited for style, and it is blunt and tactless and appallingly unfluid. I [...]

Hart’s Hope by Orson Scott Card

(This “review” was originally posted 2/28/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for  some coherency, spelling and grammar. It is blunt and tactless and appallingly unfluid. I apologise.)
At Orson Scott Card’s website: [...]

The Tamír Triad, by Lynn Flewelling

(This “review” was originally posted 8/29/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found atRAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for  some coherency, spelling and grammar. It has been edited a VERY LITTLE for style, and it is blunt and tactless [...]

The Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling

(This “review” was originally posted 4/11/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for  some coherency, spelling and grammar. It has NOT been edited for style, and it is blunt and tactless and [...]

Mélusine by Sarah Monette

[I have a very big bone to pick with Sarah Monette's Mélusine: it is not a stand-alone novel, being the first of a series (a quadrilogy?), and no where on the cover is this information given. I mean, it says it's a first novel, and there's an extract of her "next" novel inside, but until [...]

Arthuriana.

The first Arthurian narrative I ever knew was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I must’ve been… twelve? Anyway. I hated it. I had no idea what was going on, other than randomised stupidity and French people throwing things at the guys who pretended to be on horses (that one made sense because I have [...]

Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer

(This review is littered with spoilers. I do not believe they “give away” the text, but I thought you should know.)
In a sane world, an Afterword is no more and no less than reflection upon that which went before, perhaps, or an apology for the lack of nachos. [All good things have nachos.] In Shriek: [...]