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Roy Adams

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Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

I mainly read sci-fi, mystery, some suspense/horror and the occasional non-fiction.

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Curtis C. Chen: True Blue Kangaroo (EBook, 2024)

sunlight and offer vacationers endless good times while floating through blue skies above the clouds …

Kangaroo finds himself a Prisoner while on a mission

More space spying, twists & turns and Kangaroo trying his best to emulate being authentic with his love interest. (He's not "faking it", just doesn't know a better way to be.) Along the way Kangaroo finds himself a Prisoner in a "blue site" on Venus.

reviewed The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach (The Endsong, #1)

Sascha Stronach: The Dawnhounds (EBook, 2022, Saga Press)

The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, …

Unique world where magic is replacing engineering

The story is set in a unique world where magic is slowly replacing engineering. The protagonist Yat goes from being a demoted cop to a reluctant hero for her city.

Otto Penzler: Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries (2022, Penzler Publishers)

Very good collection of mysteries

An interesting set of locked door mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction (roughly the 1920s and 1930s). Fourteen interesting and ingenious tales with unexpected twists and turns along the way. I particularly enjoyed the Ellery Queen's The House of Haunts and C. Daly King’s The Episode of the Nail and the Requiem.

Warning that some of the stories do have dated attitudes, especially towards women (thus dropping the rating to four stars). #Bookstodon