January 2012
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The Blood Countess by Tara Moss
Cross posted from here.
I decided to grab this book for a few reasons. In no particular order: Tara Moss is awesome (decided based mainly on her blog), I don’t mind the occasional vampire/urban fantasy/paranormal book, it was on sale (on iTunes/iBooks), and I could use it towards the Australian Women Writers Challenge (not that I’m desperately short of books for that, but excuses...
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Nightsiders by Sue Isle
Cross posted from here.
Nightsiders by Sue Isle is a collection of four short stories set in the same world. It is part of Twelfth Planet Press’s Twelve Planets series, twelve collections which are showcasing the work of twelve Australian female authors. I believe it’s the only one so far to be entirely science fictional (that said, the only other I’ve read is Love and Romanpunk...
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Debris by Jo Anderton
Cross posted from here.
I enjoyed Debris by Jo Anderton.
I read a lot of fantasy, especially by Australian writers (no surprise that they’re dominating my reading so far this year). I’ve found that Australian fantasy is less likely to stick to clichéd convention and in that respect, Debris definitely does not disappoint.
The magical system Anderton has developed is focused around...
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Spare Parts by Sally Rogers-Davidson
Cross posted from here.
This was actually a fairly difficult book to track down. When I first made my list of possible science fiction books by Australian women, many were out of print. This was one of them. Or so I thought at first, since it was published in 1999 and not readily available in the usual places. I actually found it on Audible in audiobook form (if you become a member, even briefly,...
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Hoodwink by Rhonda Roberts
Cross-posed from here.
The first thing I want to note is that despite Hoodwink being the second book in Rhonda Roberts’s Timestalker series, it absolutely stands alone. You don’t have to have read the first book, Gladiatrix, although it’s definitely worth reading for its own sake. If you enjoy Hoodwink, there’s no reason not to go back and read Gladiatrix afterwards. The only spoilers in book 2...
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Eon & Eona by Alison Goodman
Cross-posted from here.
I’m going to combine the reviews for this duology, because they really are two halves of the same story and I don’t think it’s fair to review them separately. You shouldn’t read the second one without reading the first.
Eon by Alison Goodman
5 / 5 stars
(Winner of an Aurealis Award for best Fantasy Novel)
Eon is set in an oriental-inspired...
