About Tia Bowman

Mercury Rises is, above all things, a humorous book. It made me laugh, snicker, giggle, and snort (an embarrassing but satisfying thing to happen in the middle of a crowded room).

At first glance, this book might simply look like an homage to World of Warcraft: Omnitopia is a MMO game that surpasses television and the internet as the world’s number one entertainment source. Everyone and their dog plays. Most players are obsessed. But that’s where it stopped reminding me of WoW and started reeling me [...]

In a world where the walking undead are a fact of life, Jessie is a zombie. With all of her memories and conscious thoughts, there’s more going on beneath her deteriorating scalp than a hoo like you or I could begin to guess. In Dust we get to experience zombie matters from the eyes of [...]

Black Blade Blues is an urban fantasy by J.A. Pitts. I have some major love for UF right now. Firstly, it’s a very interesting genre, allowing monsters and fantastic creatures to live and creep nearer to where we live with every new story. In this particular book, Sarah Beauhall is a blacksmith/movie prop maker who [...]

In A Young Man Without Magic, Anrel Murau is just your average cynical, non-magical being living in a world where only those who control magic are deigned worthy enough to control anything else. Using this premise Lawrence Watt-Evans creates one of the more politically charged fantasy books of late. Anrel, a well-educated young man, returns [...]

Let me start off by admitting that I love both Zombies and Regency novels. So, naturally, when I saw a zombified portrait of Jane Austen on the cover of a book, I was intrigued. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a parody (or as the back cover describes it, “an expanded edition”) of Jane Austin's [...]