Santa Olivia, (Paperback)

from KarenIrelandPhillips

I hadn't liked Ms. Carey's earlier non-Kushiel ventures, Banewreaker and Godslayer (they weren't exactly bad, just not good - enough), so I didn't have really high hopes for this one. Ms. Carey certainly exercises her writing chops here. This post-apocalyptic novel tells the story of a girl, orph...

from aprillee

Carey makes a huge change of pace here, creating a stand-alone tale set in a grim and gritty near-future town that finds itself in a no-man's land between the US and Mexico after an influenza outbreak (making the author seem prescient after the Swine Flu news). The town is dependent on the army o...

from Mardel

The other day, while cruising the shelves at my newest bookstore that I hate to shop at, (yet it's the only one available to me when I'm able to go bookshopping) I saw this book titled Saints Astray. The blurb sounded very interesting....and a bit familiar...I realized that this was a sequel to S...

from PhoenixTerran

Somehow I managed to find myself in a situation with only Santa Olivia on hand as suitable reading material. I really had intended to finish Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series before moving onto her other works, but Santa Olivia it was to be. When I first heard about the book at one of Ca...

from Zapatos

I had a very strange reaction to Santa Olivia. It's not that I didn't adore it (which I did), it's that the word that I think best describes it is very...odd. Take this as you will, but Santa Olivia is a very "warm" book. The characters are just so alive, and the simple way in which Carey describ...