Fantastes

book reviews

  • A Word About Awards

    What is it about awards and the striving for prizes? We humans get a big thrill out of the drama of it all. My recent posts have covered some of the biggest speculative fiction awards. I’ve been reading the nominated… Continue reading

  • Speculative Series With Problems

    TODAY: Problem Series The last of three posts: Classic series, Some of my Favorites, Problem series (today)–but tomorrow I’ll do a brief wrap-up about series I DON’T discuss in these posts. So many books. . .so little time (continued) Let’s… Continue reading

  • Valentine Week: Fairytale Fantasy returns!

    Each year, at the start of the week including Valentine’s Day, this blog reviews books based on fairytales. Yep, it’s FAIRYTALE FANTASY WEEK once more. This year’s theme: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD If you thought there would not be very… Continue reading