THE FAVORED QUEEN, by Carolly Erickson
THE TUDOR COURT’S most opaque figure, Queen Jane Seymour, fictionalized tastefully but with little sparkle.
Grade: SOLID B
THE FAVORED QUEEN
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews
THE TUDOR COURT’S most opaque figure, Queen Jane Seymour, fictionalized tastefully but with little sparkle.
Grade: SOLID B
THE FAVORED QUEEN
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews
STEAMPUNK FANTASY SPACE OPERA offers magic swords, copper robots, and interplanetary travel. Third in a series.
Grade: SOLID B
THE RISE OF THE IRON MOON
Tor
2011
Tags: Fantasy, Novels, SF, Solid B Reviews
MYSTERY/COMEDY OF MANNERS offers some sharply observed satire of upwardly mobile Manhattanites amid the gore.
Grade: SOLID B
Villard
2011
Tags: Humor, Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
TIME TRAVEL, NANOMACHINES, alternate history combine in a novel of intriguing ideas (if lackluster characters).
Grade: SOLID B
THIS SHARED DREAM
Tor
2011
Tags: Alternate History, Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews
JAMES BOND 007, Jeffery Deaver style! Starts slowly (and may disappoint Bond purists) but a darn good thriller.
Grade: SOLID B
CARTE BLANCHE: THE NEW JAMES BOND NOVEL
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Spy Fiction, Thriller
LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY at its highs, snickerworthy even at its lows! Comic essays from the hilarious Larry Doyle.
Grade: B PLUS
DELIRIOUSLY HAPPY; AND OTHER BAD THOUGHTS
HarperCollins
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Non-Fiction
SASSY, FAST-PACED PARANORMAL mystery features a wisecracking thief turned sleuth and a great supporting cast.
Grade: SOLID B
HELLBENT
Spectra
2011
Tags: Fantasy, Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
EPIC, SWEEPING HISTORICAL novel follows Richard the Lionhearted on crusade. Lots of detail, court intrigue.
Grade: B PLUS
LIONHEART
Putnam
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
FUNNY, FUNKY, CUTE, and sometimes bittersweet memoir from an “Art Star” of the Lower East Side’s arts heyday.
Grade: SOLID B
ELF GIRL: A MEMOIR
Gallery Books
2011
Tags: Art History, Memoirs, New York City, Non-Fiction, Social History, Solid B Reviews
INSIDE A COMPLEX, troubling investigation of a multi-victim case of child sexual abuse and its church coverup.
Grade: SOLID B
THE SINS OF BROTHER CURTIS: A STORY OF BETRAYAL, CONVICTION, AND THE MORMON CHURCH
Scribner
2011
Tags: Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime