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Tahlia Newland

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Fun: Space Team by Barry J. Hutchison

January 27, 2017 by Tahlia Newland

Fun: Space Team by Barry J. Hutchison

Watch the review or read it below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCPxWd7MbYo If you like space opera / frivolous sci fi or parody, you’ll like this one. It manages to be amusing but not so silly that you feel like it’s a waste of time. Rather it’s a solid sci fi story with a flippant central character who makes light of every situation. Some may find the character annoying—certainly other characters in the book do—but I rather enjoyed the character’s ability to see everything, no matter how dire, in a light-hearted way. The skill of the author is shown in his ability to maintain a sense of drama amongst the slapstick style. Cal is supported by a cast of interesting characters: a dog woman, a mostly mechanical man with super strength, an officer for the corporation who sends them on their possibly hopeless mission across the reaches of space, and a ball of slime with the ability to take any shape it wants. Cal’s relationship with the ball of slime is quite endearing. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 5 stars, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: space opera

Fun – City of Deceit by  Steph Bennion

January 2, 2017 by Tahlia Newland

Fun – City of Deceit by  Steph Bennion

BUY NOW City of Deceit is the third book in the Hollow Moon series, a space opera tale set in a fascinating future world where India has a colony on another planet and some of the characters live in a man-made hollow moon. The world building is excellent, the characters intriguing and the action a mix of drama and an occasional scene of pure slapstick that had me chuckling away. The prose is also excellent and includes some real gems, such as: “The ship’s extra-dimensional drive whirred into life, punched a ten-light-year hole through reality and whisked the spacecraft away on a vomit-inducing sideways roll through space-time.” Though this is essentially a light hearted tale, it has—as all good space opera has—a dark underside; in this case it’s one of political wheeling and dealing and secret agendas. Though you could read this as a stand-alone novel, it will undoubtably be better if you’ve read the previous two books. Without the previous books the beginning may feel a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 5 stars, Science Fiction Tagged With: space opera

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Fantasy Book Review: The High Priestess by Val Tobin

Fantasy Book Review: The High Priestess by Val Tobin

The High Priestess: Persephone’s Return is the third book in Val Tobin’s Tales from the Unmasqued World Series, and in it she deepens and expands the stories from the previous two book. The book has two central story arcs based around characters we’ve met before. One arc follows Kelsey (a human) who is with Josh […]

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Yesterday I did a photoshoot for my renovated website. Take a look around, particulary at the home page (Click on my name at the top to go there). It’s designed for editing clients with my books secondary because I need to focus on the part of this publishing business that actually earns me more than […]

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