cyphomandra

I should have paid more attention to the blurb on this, which uses the phrases "an intelligent boy on the edge of sexuality" and "a sensual world ruled by an alien intelligence" and translated them into "group sex with aliens on page 21", which would have stopped me from trying to read this at the hairdresser and having to rapidly abandon it for ageing issues of Hello. Anyway. Learn from my experience. ( Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Catalyst (more spoilers here than other reviews, because I had problems with it) )

( Ysabel S Wilce, Flora Segunda: Being the magickal mishaps of a girl of spirit, her glass-gazing sidekick, two ominous butlers (one blue), a house with eleven thousand rooms and a red dog. )


( Frank Beddor, The Looking-Glass Wars. )

( Stephen Donaldson, Fatal Revenant. )