Reviews – Townsend S. Wright

Review: Making History

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Townsend Wright — No Comments ↓

Making History by K.J. Parker presents a fascinating problem but ultimately fumbles its reveal. Continue reading Review: Making History→

Review: The Country Under Heaven

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Townsend Wright

Until this past December, I was working at an independent bookstore, and one of the greatest perks of working at an independent bookstore is ARCs: Advance Reader’s Copies, books sent to stores and reviewers some months prior to the publishing date–usually sans some design flairs and the last bit of Continue reading Review: The Country Under Heaven→

Review: Kings of the Wyld

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Townsend Wright

When you work at a bookstore, the natural inclination when it’s slow is to find something to read. Pre-pandemic I’d usually keep to the comics for the sake of speed, but post 2020, things got very slow, which is how I reread Bone and read the Red Rising Trilogy and Continue reading Review: Kings of the Wyld→

Review: Tress of the Emerald Sea

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Townsend Wright

What’s this? I’m not dead! Forgive me father, it’s been four and a half years since I last posted and I decided to stop wasting money keeping the IP up by actually using this site for something. And since I just so happened to start reading a new book on Continue reading Review: Tress of the Emerald Sea→

Suicide Squad: Good, But Could be Better

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Townsend Wright

The friend I went to see Suicide Squad with summed it up pretty well: It’s a perfectly good FX movie. It’s the kind of film you wouldn’t at all mind putting on if it happened to be on TV. It was a good film, in my opinion, I’m glad I Continue reading Suicide Squad: Good, But Could be Better→

A Temporal Ode to River Song

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Townsend Wright

Last night the long-running and absolutely adored British sci-fi TV series Doctor Who aired its latest Christmas Special, The Husbands of River Song. A brilliant and moving episode in its own right, the christmas special by all accounts seemed to close off a recurring plotline in the series which has enthralled viewers since Continue reading A Temporal Ode to River Song→

A Review of Jupiter Ascending: What a Waste

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Townsend Wright

Shockingly, the worst thing about this poster is not that it acknowledges the Matrix sequels.

Before it came out, I’d been looking forward to the Wachowskis’ new film Jupiter Ascending for some time. Sure I knew it could be bad, but hey, it was original sci-fi! It just looked like a cheesey space-opera, and more importantly, it wasn’t an adaptation, sequel, prequel, knock-off, remake, reboot, Continue reading A Review of Jupiter Ascending: What a Waste→