Of Blood and Honey – Stina Leicht

About the book Liam never knew who his father was. The town of Derry had always assumed that he was the bastard of a protestant — his mother never spoke of him, and Liam assumed he was dead. But when the war between the fallen and the fey began to heat up, Liam and his…

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Mr. Shivers – Robert Jackson Bennett

About the book It is the time of the Great Depression. Thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing, and one thing only. Revenge. Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant…

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World’s End – Mark Chadbourn

About the book   When Jack Churchill and Ruth Gallagher encounter a terrifying, misshapen giant beneath a London bridge they are plunged into a mystery which portends the end of the world as we know it. All over the country, the ancient gods of Celtic myth are returning to the land from which they were…

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Fair Coin – E.C. Myers

Aboutthe book Sixteen-year-oldEphraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his motherunconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. The reason forher suicide attempt is even more disturbing: she thought she’d identifiedEphraim’s body at the hospital that day.  Among his dead double’s belongings, Ephraimfinds a strange coin—a coin that…

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11/22/63 – Stephen King

About the book On November 22,1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the worldchanged forever.  If you had the chance to change the course ofhistory, would you?  Would the consequences be worth it?  Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old highschool English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teachingadults in…

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Jack of Ravens – Mark Chadbourn

Aboutthe book A quest of epicreach spanning the globe under the mythologies of five great cultures – andfinally crossing the barrier between life and death.  Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walksout of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before hewas born, with no knowledge of how he got there.  All…

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Wide Open – Deborah Coates

About the book When Sergeant HallieMichaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days’ compassionateleave, her sister Dell’s ghost is waiting at the airport to greet her. The sheriff says that Dell’s death was suicide,but Hallie doesn’t believe it. Something happened or Dell’s ghost wouldn’tstill be hanging around. Friends and family, mourning Dell’s…

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Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins

About the book Against all odds,Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute PeetaMellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even.After all, she has returned to her family and longtime friend, Gale. Yetnothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance.Peeta…

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A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness

About the book Debut novelist Harkness has crafted a mesmerizingand addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense–arichly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, andthe mysterious manuscript that draws them together. 579pages (Hardcover) Publishedon: February 8, 2011 Author’swebpage —– BeforeI start this review, I must apologize to the author. This…

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Shadow Ops – Myke Cole

About the book Army Officer.Fugitive. Sorcerer.  Across the country and in every nation, peopleare waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms,raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze.  Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it.A lieutenant attached to the military’s Supernatural Operations Corps, hismission is to bring order…

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