Stepping into Stories, One Word at a Time
"You cannot lead as a tyrant. The people under you will not let you. To lead is a kind of service, a duty you owe to those who follow."Demon in White by Christopher Ruocchio It's absolutely not surprising to me that this book is being called one of the greatest science fiction novels of all... Continue Reading →
"Sarkis turned around and began to beat his forehead very gently against the wall. “The great god is punishing me,” he said softly, “for my crimes. I cannot go to his hell, and so he has sent a woman to torment me."Swordheart by T. Kingfisher My love of T. Kingfisher grows with every book. Sometimes... Continue Reading →
"Secrets do not stay in the dark where we put them. Some lie dormant, but others slither beneath doors, over windowsills, through the cracks in walls, out into the light where everyone can see them, poke at them, know them."The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter I decided to try out A.G. Slatter's Sourdough Universe... Continue Reading →
“The guardian is a woman, or something that looks very much like a woman, though she is inhumanly beautiful and unnaturally still. There is something in her that resembles a river itself, in that she seems both placid and restless; eternally in place, and yet constantly in motion. She doesn’t have a name, though most... Continue Reading →
"The Hall women were born to hard breaks and bad decisions. They fell in love with the wrong people so consistently it was as though an ancestral curse doomed them to heartbreak, from a grandmother married to a guy so terrible she killed him, to Charlie’s last boyfriend , who shot her. Posey said that... Continue Reading →
"Moments after we docked onto the Structure - just as I was considering whether I could risk glancing fondly at her again - we were suddenly plunged into absolute darkness. Though the interior lights in the depth-craft activated quickly, all I could see outside was impenetrable murk. No luminous fish, no shadowy deep-sea whales, not... Continue Reading →
Of Worlds Forgotten 