Replica (Replica, Book 1), by Jenna Black, is a fast-paced YA novel featuring two protagonists, 16 year olds Nadia Lake and Nate Hayes. Children of the wealthy elite in the repressive Corporate States, Nate and Nadia are like celebrities. They are also betrothed to be married, forming the lynchpin in a powerful alliance between important […]
Book Review: THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES by Scott Lynch
October 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A couple of years ago, I needed a book to read for vacation. So I stopped down by my local indie bookstore and grabbed one of the thicker fantasy volumes on the shelf. That book – The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch – almost made me forget I was sitting on a beautiful […]
Book Review: THE MACHINE by James Smythe
October 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
My first experience reading James Smythe was discovering his novel, The Explorer, a book which became my Top 3 read of 2012. It hooked me from the first sentence and gave me a story that was never boring, creating strong empathy for the main character’s plight in a fast-paced adventure through time and space, literally. […]
Book Review and Giveaway: THREE by Jay Posey
October 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
All mutants, zombies, monsters, aliens and other semi-sentient beings aside, the end of the world leaves behind a surprising number of survivors – human survivors. That human detritus makes a surprising recovery regardless of whatever dystopian wasteland they inhabit. In Three, by Jay Posey, it’s the world before its fall that draws the reader in […]
Book Review: STAR WARS: EMPIRE AND REBELLION: RAZOR’S EDGE by Martha Wells
September 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Star Wars Expanded Universe has grown immensely since the early days when George Lucas gave the go-ahead to Timothy Zahn and a few others to begin writing stories that went beyond the original trilogy. There were the comic books too, of course. Then the prequels occurred – and things went the way of an […]
Book Review: A THOUSAND PERFECT THINGS by Kay Kenyon
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In her epic new work, A Thousand Perfect Things (Premier Digital Publishing), award-winning author Kay Kenyon creates an alternate 19th century earth ruled by the warring factions of scientific Anglica (England) and magical Bharata (India). The main protagonist is Astoria (Tori) Harding, a young woman who aspires to be a scientist in the mould of her […]
Book Review: THE SHAMBLING GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY by Mur Lafferty
September 3, 2013 by 1 Comment
All Zoe Norris wants is a job and a chance to start over again. When she stumbles across an opportunity as a travel book editor in New York City, she thinks she’s found the perfect chance. The only problem? She’s human. Her boss is a vampire, her favorite co-worker is a water sprite, an incubus […]
Book Review: Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares by James Lovegrove
August 28, 2013 by 4 Comments
Sherlock Holmes has seen numerous iterations across the spectrum of media, some good some bad. James Lovegrove, the author of Age of Odin, is the latest author to put his pen to the test in Sherlock Holmes – The Stuff of Nightmares, and he excels. Lovegrove returns Holmes to his roots of 19th century London with […]
Book Review: CELEBROMANCY, by Michael R. Underwood
August 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Ree Reyes is no ordinary geek. Not only is she a geekomancer–someone able to tap into the energy of fandom and perform magic, but she’s also a burgeoning screenwriter having her first screenplay turned into a pilot called Awakenings. However, when Ree discovers the production’s star, Jane Konrad, is the target of magical mayhem, she […]
Book Review: SEA CHANGE by S.M. Wheeler
August 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Lilly is the unhappy child of two powerful but dysfunctional parents who despise each other. The girl, however, finds solace at the ocean, where she meets and befriends an eloquent, intelligent sea monster, a kraken, whom she names Octavius. Octavius wants to hear stories all the time and, in exchange, he teaches the girl about […]
