Michele Lee’s Book Love

March 2, 2009

The End of the Road

Filed under: Uncategorized — Michele Lee @ 4:53 pm

Here we are, in March. It’s been a long voyage, and WordPress has been a joy. But it’s time to spread our wings. This is the last entry I’ll be making to this journal.

BookLove has moved to it’s own space at http://www.michelelee.net/booklove

Please update your bookmarks and keep coming for more reviews, genre book news and whatever strikes my fancy.

In the future I’ll be continuing my work with MonsterLibrarian and The Fix, as well as adding links to the work I’m doing for Dark Recesses (which is mostly book, graphic novel and movie reviews). My To Read pile is still quite large, so there will be plenty more to see.

The links here will slowly disappear as I update the index to the new site. The blog itself will stay up, or at least this message will, for probably the next year, until the traffic drops off. So if your book is one of the nearly 200 I’ve reviewed in the last two years please update your link, or save the review for your own use.

It’s been fun, and I’ll see you on the flip side.

Love,

Michele

December 12, 2008

Genre Book Review Blogs

Filed under: Uncategorized — Michele Lee @ 12:50 am

July 29, 2008

Apex Digest: In the Seams by Andrew Porter

Filed under: e-zine, free fiction, horror, magazine, short story — Michele Lee @ 1:01 pm
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Apex Digest recently made the jump to an online magazine, raising the pay rates and making content free to readers. The new format puts out a story and a series of articles and columns each week, new content every Sunday.

This week’s fiction offering is a horror tale, Andrew Porter’s “In the Seams”. Part Appalachian thriller and part Lovecraft mythos its science fiction elements are debatable, but the story is a solid one. It centers on a pair of coal miners, excavating one of the richest veins in local history, only to discover a large number of strange fossils in the mineral itself. Scientific curiosity and a drive to be more than “the coal miners who discovered the fossils” to the annals of history lead the pair to get far too involved in uncovering what should remain buried.

It’s nice to see a story that’s both local, and doesn’t portray the region like a bunch of hicks or greedy, Earth plundering creeps. Porter manages to make what’s practically in my back yard into a near-exotic local, rich with a dark history.

July 8, 2008

Quantum Moon by Denise Vitola

Filed under: horror, monsterlibrarian, science fiction, shape shifters — Michele Lee @ 11:39 am
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Quantum Moon by Denise Vitola

Quantum Moon is the first in a series of strange lycanthrope novels set in a future where the world is under one government and everything is rationed: food, fuel, and even water. Poverty and despair are a way of life…

Full review at MonsterLibrarian.com

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