Promise
A Redemption Series Prequel

In a Nutshell:A speculative fiction anthology. The author has imagination for sure, but the content was too unstructured for me. This is a collection of twenty stories of speculative fiction. However, despite the common genre, the stories are quite distinct from each other in terms of content. The s......more

An excellent collection, positively burning with intelligence and curiosity. Christi Nogle is constantly investigating the spaces between people, and what it is about their relationships with one another that inform each participant. In her first collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Fu......more

(4.25) I'm going to preface this review by saying that weird, sparse, science fiction is my genre of choice so my reviews trend higher for books like this. I absolutely adored Promise. It's a collection of fantastical, weird science fiction, short stories and a fab way to kick off short story month. I......more

When I read a new author I tend to ask myself a couple of questions.  Are the characters going to keep me interested and is the story going to move at a pace that will help the book. This is a bit of a weird story but I can feel fear from the characters as they are infected by something.  They keep w......more

Is this the third release from Christi Nogle in under two years? What did we do to deserve this? Nogle is back with Promise, another banger of weird shorts, albeit of a different style than those collected in The Best of Our Past, The Worst of Our Future. If domesticity and home life were the dominan......more