On Community by Casey Plett
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann This book begins with two encounters author Casey Plett experienced. In the first, Plett returned after...
Authorized Cruelty by Janice Barrett
Reviewed by Gail M. Murray In her debut novel, Barrett’s impeccable research, in particular Matthew Connelly’s, The Declassification...
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol.1 (2023)
Reviewed by Robert Runté When John Robert Columbo came out with the first anthology of Canadian speculative fiction, Other Canadas, in...
Season's Greetings ORB December 2023 Issue
As 2023 draws to a close, we at the Ottawa Review of Books wish you the very best for the holiday season. We will be taking a short break...
The Black State by John Delacourt
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw In his latest novel, The Black State, John Delacourt achieves what many American and British authors have...
The Future by Catherine Leroux
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann What if the city of Detroit, Michigan, founded by French explorer Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac,...
Lost Cargo by Noah Chinn
Reviewed by Robert Runté Lost Cargo is the sequel to Lost Souls. I gave Lost Souls a positive review (February 2023 issue of ORB), but...
Scorch Mark by JP McLean
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin If you’re unfamiliar with JP McLean’s award-winning supernatural crime novels, you should investigate her Dark...
Life’s Journey by L. Patricia Bayley
Reviewed by Gail M. Murray Although L. Patricia Bayley has been writing poems from an early age; it took two key events in her...
Welcome to the November 2023 Issue of ORB
Leaves have fallen in Canada, the colours are gone. So, it is an excellent time to compensate with the colourful imagination of Canadian...