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Under My Skin – Fake It Til You Make It

September 20, 2023Categories ReviewsLeave a Comment on Under My Skin – Fake It Til You Make It

Boy, do I have a tasty box of treats for you today. Under My Skin, by K.J. Parker, is a collection of novellas and novelettes all taking place in the same collective universe and focusing on the subject of people who are not what they seem. Parker is a master of short stories and even…

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Devices and Desires – Unalluring

January 21, 2021Categories ReviewsLeave a Comment on Devices and Desires – Unalluring

After very positive experiences with a number of recent books by K.J. Parker, I decided to dive into the far back year of 2006 and read one of his larger, better known series - specifically his Engineer Trilogy. The first book in the set is Devices and Desires, and Parker describes the series as (and…

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The Best Novellas of 2020

December 8, 2020January 19, 2021Categories Lists1 Comment on The Best Novellas of 2020

You may have noticed we didn’t include any novellas on our Best of 2020 list. As we combed through the year’s many magnificent reads, we struggled to balance the short, punchy narratives of 2020’s various novellas with the sweeping stories of the novels that made our top rankings. To give credit where it is so…

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