Flood and Ark by Stephen Baxter are the first two books in what will most likely produce a series. I picked up Ark (cool cover) and found out after my purchase that it was the sequel to Flood. Picked that up later the same day there you have it. To…

American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us by Steven Emerson is a scary book. Tracking movements of extremists living here in the U.S. from the 80s until just after 9/11, Emerson shows in quite a bit of detail, where these extremists are living, how they’re funding groups like al Qaeda…

Okay… it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve still been reading. I have six books to comment on, and ten left to finish out my 52 for the year. Not sure I’ll make it, but considering the size of several books I’ve read this year (most were double…

Finally, a fun, well-written novel. Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead is a wonderful sci-fi novel in which you see the brilliance of Lawhead’s writing really starting to take form. I’m familiar with Lawhead’s most famous 5-book epic The Pendragon Cycle, though he has written much since then (which I…

Excruciating. That describes Stephen Deas’ debut novel The Adamantine Palace. I think it’s one of the worst books I’ve ever read. This was one of those books that had a cool cover (dragon on the front), the dust jacket lauded it as the next “Pern” series (which I love) and…