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Infidel by Kameron Hurley, a rewrite

With Kameron Hurley’s final novel in her Bel Dame Apocrypha being released, I thought it would be appropriate to rerun my God’s War and Infidel reviews at A Dribble of Ink, before publishing a review of Hurley’s concluding volume, Rapture.

I had a problem though, I didn’t really think my review of either of the first two novels was all that good. They were both written in my first six months as a blogger, and I thought they deserved better. So I rewrote them — never an easy thing to do. Here’s Infidel:

Infidel_Kameron_HurleyThere’s a fine line between dark and compelling and horrifying and off-putting. When a story comes right up to the line without crossing it a certain dichotomy comes into existence whereby I want to look away and forget about it, but can’t. No author in recent memory walks this line better that Kameron Hurley whose second novel, Infidel, compliments that description perfectly.

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Find Me in Other Places on the Interweb

Aidan Moher, of genre super blog A Dribble of Ink, has invited me syndicate reviews on his site. The first one, my early review of Alastair Reynolds’ Blue Remembered Earth, went live yesterday, coinciding with the novel’s US release date.

As a prolific reviewer, something Aidan doesn’t do as often as he’d like, I’m hoping to give his readers more frequent input on new releases and the occasional back list title. A Dribble of Ink will be running a few of my reviews every month, typically a week or two after they run here. For those who read me frequently, this won’t impact a thing, but hopefully it exposes me to some new readers from among Aidan’s legion.

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In other news, last week while I was at Balticon, John Anealio of The Functional Nerds asked me to sit in on the podcast for an interview with Compton Crook Award Winner, T.C.

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