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Book Review: Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

Foundryside explores what might happen if a master key could open any lock because it could converse with the laws and rules of reality, as well as what might happen if it came across a human who could understand and talk back to it.

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment December 8, 2018December 6, 2018

Book Review: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Our Murderbot remains ever capable of combat intelligence, but not only does it continue to struggle with social norms, it also now must make decisions for itself, a thrilling but terrifying experience for the newly emancipated SecUnit.

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment November 3, 2018October 30, 2018

Book Review: Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes you find a book that's just about you, about the things you love and the longing in your heart and the fears that consume you at night, and Ballad is of all that for me.

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment October 27, 2018October 24, 2018

Book Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

The Darkest Part of the Forest seems brief as a stand-alone novel, but it's packed full of events, action, and twists, traipsing all over the fictional town of Fairfold, through the woods, and down below the Faerie hill.

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment October 6, 2018October 2, 2018

Book Review: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

When I got the hankering to reread The Rook, I thought I'd give it a review this time. 

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment September 29, 2018September 24, 2018

Book Review: The Death of the Necromancer

High jinks rule the day throughout The Death of the Necromancer. The narrative comes packed with every aspect Victorian-era criminal life has to offer, plus necromancy.

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment September 8, 2018October 30, 2018

Book Review: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Only seven chapters long, 'All Systems Red' moves along at a snappy pace, following the tale of Murderbot, an angry, dismissive robot learning how to deal with autonomy and other people during crisis. Can relate.

S.G. Baker Book Reviews 1 Comment August 11, 2018August 24, 2018

Book Review: Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

While I don't quite agree that 'Thunderhead' beats 'Scythe,' they're absolutely comparable in terms of quality. 

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment August 4, 2018June 12, 2020

Book Review: Valiant

A study in edges, where Faerieland meets big city, where drug addiction meets magic, where homelessness meets whimsy.

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment July 28, 2018July 24, 2018

Book Review: Nightstruck

I dust my hands of this nonsense.

S.G. Baker Book Reviews Leave a comment July 14, 2018August 2, 2018

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S.G. Baker is a writer and editor of fiction who penned the Hopeful Wanderer web series, forthcoming as a novel-in-stories. She has authored climate fiction, fantasy, and horror shorts in Freelancer, The Legacy, Little Blue Marble: Warmer Worlds, With Words We Weave: Hope, and Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 2. Her newest short story, “Well Being,” will be released in Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror by Texas Women in 2026. Find out more at summergbaker.com !

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