Woken Furies is the 3rd Takeshi Kovacs novel by Richard K. Morgan, after Altered Carbon and Broken Angles. Takeshi Kovacs has a VERY small monkeysphere.

Bones of Faerie, by Janni Lee Simner, is a post-apocalyptic YA fantasy set in a small Missouri town ravaged by magic. The main character is Liza, a teenage girl still haunted by the memory of her dead baby sister.

If Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere married a Hollywood blockbuster and had a child, Mind the Gap by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon might be the result. This dark, fast paced adventure is in love with London, especially with London’s Underground and what might lie beneath.

Dragonhaven, by Robin McKinley, takes a look of what it might be like if dragons existed on earth, and how they would fit in with modern society. It’s told as a memoir, from the point of view of Jake, who has spent his entire life at a wildlife refuge for dragons called Smokehill.

Reviewed by Catherine Cheek The Somnambulist, by Jonathan Barnes, will defy your expectations at every turn. It’s a murder mystery set in post-Victorian London, full of odd characters and even odder events. The main character is Edward Moon, a stage magician who has seen better days. His omnipresent sidekick is the Somnambulist, a golem-like giant […]

By Catherine Cheek Long-time fans of high fantasy will find The Dark Ferryman, by Jenna Rhodes very comforting and familiar. Elvish Vaelinors, Hobbit-like Dwellers, and various humanoid races struggle in an epic war of sword and sorcery for control of the land of Kerith. It’s book two of a series called The Elven Ways, sequel […]

By Catherine Cheek Dogs by Nancy Kress is an exciting novel by an expert writer. It deals with America’s paranoia about terrorism and our unreasonable attachment to our pets. Not only does Kress convincingly portray espionage and politics, but she also has a good handle on how to immerse a reader in a tale so […]

By Catherine Cheek If you want to read about tough guys killing monsters, Madhouse, by Rob Thurman is your book. Half-human Cal and his brother Niko are so tough they make Bruce Willis’s character from the Die Hard movies seem like a hemophiliac asthmatic with a gimp knee. With their friend Robin, and Niko’s vampire […]