Review: Visions of Ascension aka Fate of Spectrums by Nicholas L Carter

 

 

 

 

 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5089363194

 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5089378385

 

This is Book One in a very comprehensive universe created to hold a supremely powerful ruling being. They are named Corianna and are ultimately tamed by love. I was strongly reminded of the epic of Gilgamesh.

The grammar was terribly lacking, as if English was not the author's first language. The title is not clear-- 'Spectrum' appears nowhere in the story. Weighing against the technical problems are some awesome concepts of how a super-being can work either for or against its own species as a whole. The attempts at depicting gender-fluid family life are commendable if not convincing, and the depiction of different alien species is slap-dash and left to us readers to complete.

Review: Distant Gardens anthology FF sff

 

 

five great sff authors, ten happy endings

These authors love lesbian sci-fi fantasy as much as I do and display that love to spectacular effect here. The heat levels vary and are specified up front. There are tentacles, fungi, carnivorous plants, inter-species pairings, dimensional rifts, life-or-death struggles, pirates and politicos, intergalactic espionage, nerds and naifs, immortals and pixies, evil corporations and bureaucracies to circumvent, all paving the way for non-binary and sapphic heart bonds. We need more of those unconventional balances in our own reality, so what better way to seed them in our imaginations than this?

Each of the five gifts us with a tale from their established sff universes, as well as one that takes place elsewhere, providing a wonderful introduction to their worlds, and their literary chops. The volume delivers exactly what I wish for in boundary breaking romances. May they all live long and prosper, writing happily ever after.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

 

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58363764-distant-gardens

Victoria Marmot and the Dragon's Rage, Victoria Marmot and the Road to Hell by Virginia McClain --YA review

Victoria Adelaide Marmot is a one-off incredible heroine you will instantly like and if she doesn't succeed in saving the universe, you will never get to meet her. So read any one of her series of adventures while you have this chance.

I was plunged into the midst of her struggles and updated on the previous developments very smoothly in the course of the adventure, meaning I felt no lack from not having begun with volume 1 at all. That's a great skill by itself. And although I do feel a bit of itch to find out what happens when Vic manages to use her dimension-hopping ability to claw her way back to Earth AGAIN (because in this volume alone she leaves and returns several times), I am comfortably aware that because I am here and typing this review, she did make it. Because the Universe is still here; the villain got thwarted.

Well, all right, I'd like to know more and I will probably try to get a few more volumes into my reader, because Vic and her colleagues are an international, inter-species magical shifter supernatural rainbow of diversity, including gods and demons. There is snogging and flirting but it remains YA suitable without sacrificing realism very much.

I think the shocking sexy stuff happened more in volume 3 where she meets the succubus :D



 Victoria Marmot and the Road to Hell

 Yes, that is our Victoria on the cover. She hasn't even assumed her final form!

The witty asides, and breaking of the fourth wall (in which Vic berates the author for dropping her from the frying pan into the fire repeatedly) continue in this final volume of the series. Goddess Gwyn explains things, Vic and her friends manage to save the universe and what is more, save her loving family as Vic finds it within her to finally forgive.

Any story with a succubus among the good guys and polyamory front and center is going to mention sex, but is through tasteful elisions and fully YA compliant IMO. Only kissing. And there is a kitten.

Highly recommended, entire series.
"I received a free review copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review."


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Review of The Priestess of Camelot by Helgaleena

Those who enjoyed Marion Zimmer Bradley's retelling of the Arthurian legend will be quite happy with this new alternative, which has plenty of well-described love scenes. 

It's a shame about the historical inaccuracies in the book, which render Anya a 'Rus from Jutland'. Evidently author confused Viborg in Karelia with Viborg in Denmark. All notes about supposed equivalency of Rus with Vikings are thereby invalidated. However since this is not a history book per se, it is only interfering with our suspension of disbelief. Also the dying visions are rendered in full as if Anya came back to life to write them down. Third mistake: heavy mention of using the herb coneflower, which is exclusive to North America. Scratch the Pulitzer off the wish list, Heirs of Camelot.

That said, it's a pleasant, Goddess-affirmative fantasy of feminine fulfillment. I have a feeling the cursing of Morgaine is going to set up plenty of future adventures.


 https://www.amazon.com/Priestess-Camelot-Prequel-Heirs-ebook/dp/B07HSYTNRT/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_pdt_img_top?ie=UTF8