After twenty-five years of single-minded determination, Marianne Gordon has finally achieved her ambition and been promoted to Principal of the Vesper School for Zero-Gravity Artistic Display. But her moment of triumph is cut short when she discovers that she must share her position with Josephine Knight, a celebrated zero-gravity performer…
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I received this novella from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “14-year old Darian was raised in an isolated village, resisting the King and his army. When his life takes a tragic turn, he ends up in the castle, closer to his former enemies than he…
Leave a CommentTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. As a general rule, it is far, far more difficult for me to find books I won’t re-read than books I will. I’m a committed re-reader. There are books I’ve read upwards of a dozen times. Scouring…
3 Comments“The humans malfunctioned long before their habitat did.” The edges and boundaries of human experience and the possibilities beyond them are the things I like best in my science fiction. I found these in spades within The Collapsing Empire, along with humor alternately dry and caustic, characters I loved and…
2 CommentsTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt was “characters you loved from books you didn’t”, but that doesn’t quite work for me, so I went with this alteration! Characters are at the heart of what I love about stories, and it’s…
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