Monk

November 20, 2022

Dead Iron (Review)

o this one is a steampunk western. With magic. It’s even got an airship in there. Did we leave any genres out? And I love the tag line on the book  “America was built on blood, sweet, and gears.” Very cute. So our hero protagonist in this thing is a loner-drifter guy up in the NorthWest in the 1870s or so with a bit of a backstory. You see, Cedar Hunt is a werewolf. And it’s that high-moon-riding time of the month. A boy has gone missing and Cedar wants to find him. The problem is, he’s got to find […]
July 6, 2025

Monk and Robot (Review)

kay, so this is a two-fer, two novelettes in one. With this, you get… A psalm for the Wild-Built A prayer for the Crown-Shy  These are just two stories that combine into a unified whole, so it’s better to get this collection. So anyway, Dex is a young man in a world that, after ecological instability and the robot rebellion (when Robots walked off their factory jobs and wandered into the wilderness), now lives in a utopia. But guess what – you can live in Utopia and still not be happy. So he quits his first job (kinda a part-time […]