Kai Ashante Wilson, The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps. Tor.com Publishing, 2015. Copy courtesy of Tor.com.
Read for review. It’s a very interesting little piece of sword-and-sorcery, albeit perhaps not entirely to my tastes.
Laurie R. King, Dreaming Spies. Allison & Busby, 2015.
This is more travelogue than mystery. Very good travelogue. Weak on the mystery.
Jaime Lee Moyer, Against A Brightening Sky. Tor, 2015. Copy courtesy of the publisher.
Read for column. Third and last in Moyer’s trilogy, set in early 20th-century San Francisco. Moyer has a compelling touch with characterisation, but many elements of this volume sat ill with me – it’s a little too romantically inclined towards the aristocracy of pre- and post-Great War Europe, and inclines towards Evil Bolsheviks, while not feeling as rooted as I would prefer in the actual tenor of the era (although that may be mere European bias on my part: I don’t know much about America in the years immediately following the Great War).
Anyway. It’s entertaining.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 