Tag: books

  • Getting to Know the Witcher in “The Last Wish”

    Getting to Know the Witcher in “The Last Wish”

    At its heart, The Last Wish is a series of monster stories. The first book in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series (which CD Projekt RED’s video games are based on), it’s not so much a novel as a line-up of short stories that depict Geralt of Rivia taking on monster-hunting contracts. It feels like reading dark fairy tales,…

  • The Future is Weird in J.D. Robb’s “In Death” Series

    The Future is Weird in J.D. Robb’s “In Death” Series

    Lately I’ve been listening to the audiobooks of J.D. Robb’s In Death series. (That’s Nora Roberts, in fact.) It’s a science fiction romance series that’s actually more murder mystery than anything. The main character is Eve Dallas, a homicide detective who falls in love with a billionaire industrialist (or something like that) named Roarke. He also…

  • Top 5 Smutty Science Fiction Books!

    Top 5 Smutty Science Fiction Books!

    Sci-fi romance books are a guilty pleasure of mine. And with the holidays approaching, that means downtime and airplane rides — so lots of time to catch up on guilty pleasure fiction. I’m always a sucker for romance in my stories anyway (and you know how I feel about BioWare romances), so having some romantic…