book: The Girl With All The Gifts

The Girl With All The Gifts is an SF zombie thriller by M.R. Carey. Good, had some powerful moments, but I don't really have anything to say about it, and I'm not super excited about it. Definitely worth reading if you like zombies or creepy kids, but not a must-read for SF readers in general.

The Turn Of The Story, Wings In The Morning, serials, fanfiction, and me

So Sarah Rees Brennan has a story, "Wings In The Morning", in this new anthology "Monstrous Affections", which I am not otherwise reviewing at this time. (Although I will mention that my former Swat classmate and D&D party member Josh Lewis also turns out to have a story in there!) Because Brennan turned out to have more to say about her characters than she could in the confines of the story, for the past year+ she's been writing a prequel novel, The Turn Of The Story and posting it in parts on her lj. The last part just posted a few days ago.

The first part is here..

I cannot recommend this novel and story highly enough if you are a) interested in a somewhat critical investigation of portal fantasy, b) love teen drama and pining and angst and unrequited love and feeeeeeeeelings c) a fan of Brennan's work back when she was a fanfiction writer writing Drop Dead Gorgeous.

( I have more to say about all those points. )