Book ReviewsA Gothic novel of extraordinary intensity and psychological depth, built on an unusual nested structure and a fusion of wild landscape with wilder passion. Deliberately dark, populated by intentionally unlikable characters, and emphatically not the love story it is so…
Book ReviewsAn award-winning, illuminating account of how World War I shaped Tolkien and the making of Middle-earth, meticulous in reconstructing his wartime experience and rare in its clarity about his theory of myth and resistance to allegory. One of the best…
Book ReviewsMost dictionaries document a language that already exists; this one documents an invented one, and does it seriously, a linguist-built guide with real grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, far more rigorous than its Star Trek origin suggests. Solid for its craftsmanship…
Book ReviewsNarrated by Patrick Bateman, who describes murders and designer labels in the same flat voice, this is a genuinely sharp satire of consumer emptiness and an extreme experiment in unreliable narration, also punishing and arguably self-defeating in its excess. Important…
AmericaVery nearly a perfect short novel, and a model of prose style and compression: gorgeous language, indelible characters, and a deep critique of the American Dream in two hundred unwasted pages. Its quiet, craft-driven greatness rewards the right approach over…
Book ReviewsLovely, disciplined prose, a compelling first-person voice, and a deeply immersive story of Kvothe, a genuine modern classic of fantasy. It earns its rating on the merits, kept from the top tier only by the well-known problem that it opens…
Book ReviewsAn inventive, emotionally ambitious debut that uses time travel as a metaphor for absence and longing instead of technical SF, built on an original non-linear structure. It earns its rating for ambition and feeling, held back by melodrama that divides…
Book ReviewsThere are no human characters in Bradbury's story, and that is the point: an automated house goes through its daily routines after nuclear war has killed everyone. It teaches emotional power without people, horror through implication, and lyrical prose in…
Book ReviewsA cat who is not a cat, a key that fits nothing, an impossible door in a strange little house on Infinity Loop, and the book with which Bonnie Dillabough became a novelist at sixty-three. The first door of her…
Book ReviewsThe third Dimensional Alliance book turns on a single idea that clearly mattered to Bonnie Dillabough: choice. In all things, choice is the pivotal factor, and no one can choose for Jenny, a reluctant heroine carrying the fate of a…
Book ReviewsWith the fourth Dimensional Alliance book, Bonnie Dillabough turns the camera. After three books centered on Jenny, this one finally tells Lizzie's story, the aunt whose house, cat, and mysterious key set the whole series in motion. A confident writer's…
Book ReviewsThe fifth Dimensional Alliance book stays deep in the aunt's journals: as Jenny recuperates from her last battle with the Groga, she keeps reading the writings of Lizzie Japhet, the woman who left her the house on Infinity Loop and…
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