Gods and Robots

Title: Gods and Robots Author: Adrienne Mayor Publisher: Princeton University Press Format Read: Hardback “Gods and Robots” is a nonfiction book I picked up a few years ago – basically, it focuses on the idea and conceptualization of robots, automata, and immortality with a focus on the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. I find these…

Dark Roads

Title: Dark RoadsAuthor: Chevy StevensPublisher: St. Martin’s PressFormat Read: Hardback “Dark Roads” is a psychological suspense novel. The fictitious small town of Cold Creek in Canada has its share of highway murders. Girls have gone missing for years, and it is unsafe for any young woman to be out on her own. Hailey is seventeen,…

The Forest of Stars

Title: The Forest of Stars Author: Heather Kassner Publisher: Henry Holt Format Read: Hardback “The Forest of Stars” is a middle-grade novel featuring a magical carnival. Louisa is an unusual child, for she floats rather than walks. Early on in the tale she loses her mother – and that is the catalyst. Louisa finds herself…

Elektra

Title: Elektra Author: Jennifer Saint Publisher: Wildfire Format Read: Hardback “Elektra” is a retelling from Greek mythology, and specifically, this novel focuses on the Trojan War, and some of the women involved. More specifically, the story has Elektra at its core – the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the daughter devoted to her father, in…

Manhattan in Reverse

Title: Manhattan in Reverse Author: Peter F. Hamilton Publisher: Pan Macmillan Format Read: Paperback “Manhattan in Reverse” is a collection of sci-fi short stories and a couple of novelettes all neatly contained within its 260 pages. You follow some very unique and colourful characters here, and there are wormholes, events from alternative history, immortality, murders…