by admin | Jul 17, 2025 | Reading Matters
The ‘better’ is his storytelling, style, unexpected plotting, and startling characters. The ‘worse’ is the depth and complexity he achieves just keeps getting more effective and disturbing with each story. I’ve been a Nat Cassidy fan since Steal the Stars, the truly...
by admin | Feb 8, 2024 | Reading Matters
I just finished Jenny Kiefer’s This Wretched Valley, by first-time novelist Jenny Kiefer … and I almost liked it. But there was something missing… and I wonder if anyone else felt it, too. You remember the podcast, Talking Scared, that I reviewed a while back? They...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Reading Matters
Nat Cassidy’s Mary is basically the story of Carrie suffering through a very bloody version of menopause – among so many other things. In the beginning, Mary herself looks like a singularly uninteresting woman: quiet, middle-aged unassuming, working in the basement of...
by admin | Nov 29, 2022 | Reading Matters
Yeah, it’s that simple: Joe Abercrombie is one of the best writers of gritty, realistic fantasy working today. His only flaw is that there isn’t enough of him. Abercrombie has created a number of interlocking series set in a world of barbarian nations,...
