Gothic sci-fi horror, steampunk action and some good old detective fiction all rolled into one makes Chasm City a page turner. Tanner Mirabel, the protagonist, who is a security expert, and a hired assassin, has your attention from page one. The novel moves in flashbacks & we learn a lot more about why Tanner worked at Sky’s Edge, and why he was one day on the way to Chasm City. The mystery sustaining the pace…
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It’s that season of the year. Snowy evenings, foggy mornings, and early sunsets. Shadows on the streets. The quiet in the house with the radiator buzzing in the background. The quiet outside as everyone stays in avoiding the cold. The quiet everywhere. Winter is the time for ghosts to come calling. I know Halloween month is for spooky stories, but where is the fear in silly costumes and golden autumn light. No, it is the…
“Sooner or later…one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.” ― Graham Greene, The Quiet American Brighton Rock was my first exposure to Graham Greene, and it wasn’t pleasant. I found it quite morbid, but the writing appealed to me. I chanced upon ‘The Quiet American’ while staying at a friend’s place and picked it up because it was a slim book and I could get through it in a few days.…
As a reader, I stay away from the most recent bestsellers cause I am not always the biggest fan of modern prose. Once in a while, though, a book calls out to me, as did Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. I saw it recommended on all my online reading apps, propped up on the local library shelves, and finally on my Netflix feed. I don’t know if this was a cross-platform marketing conspiracy,…
Shannon Chakraborty, the Hugo-nominated author of The Daevabad Trilogy, returns with a new fantasy series set in the pirate-infested waters of the 12th-century Arabian Sea. When the novel opens, Amina, a middle-aged woman, a sea captain in retirement (or hiding, if you prefer)is attempting a quiet staid life with her aged mother and young daughter. However, she can’t escape her fearsome reputation and adventure comes knocking on her door in the form of a rich,…
I am not entirely sure how I stumbled upon Who Rules The World (WRTW) except Netflix kept pushing this up on my recommendations list. Additionally, the male lead is extremely good looking (honestly have you seen how symmetrical Yang Yang’s face is?!). Since I’ve never watched a Chinese drama before and costume period fantasy is a favorite genre of mine, I decided to give it a try. So, what’s it about? The curtain opens on…
Having found the first season of The Witcher forgettable and generic fantasy fare (yes, even with Henry Cavill, I wasn’t planning to read the series. However, Season 2 came around and I was totally drawn into the lives of Geralt, Ciri & Yennefer. I felt invested in the myths, the relationships and this weird, monstrous world and wanted to know more. I started my Witcher journey with The Last Wish, the first novel of this…
Join us as we dive into this multi-award winning 2023 Korean drama on our podcast. With MCU in its phase 4, doling out content like its nobody’s business, it can be safe to say that we don’t need more superhero themed content. But then comes along Moving, and I find myself invested in this brilliantly scripted, produced and executed Korean drama about a bunch of reluctant superheroes. Based on the webtooon ‘Moving’, the show is…
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