About the Book Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennett is destined to hang… unless she can disappear. With the untamed territory of Colorado as her most likely refuge, she packs her physician’s kit and heads West. But even with a new life and name, a female doctor with a bounty on her head can hide …
Jul 20
The Skill of Our Hands – Steven Brust & Skyler White
About the Book The Incrementalists are a secret society of two hundred people; an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world …
Jul 19
Strange Practice – Vivian Shaw
About the Book Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well in London has been her family’s specialty for generations. Greta Helsing inherited the family’s highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills – vocal …
Jul 18
The Shadow of What Was Lost – James Islington
About the Book It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs – once thought of almost as gods – were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the …
Jul 17
#SPFBO 2017 | Round Two Mini Reviews
Oh my gosh, you guys, this year has been kicking me so hard. I’m sorry I skipped last week. My family ended up with a stomach bug, and I basically spent the whole week cleaning up throw up. It was just glorious, let me tell you. Now the stomach bug has seemed to move on …
Jul 06
Thunderbird – Chuck Wendig
About the Book In the fourth installment of the Miriam Black series, Miriam heads to the southwest in search of another psychic who may be able to help her understand her curse, but instead finds a cult of domestic terrorists and the worst vision of death she’s had yet. Miriam Black is being developed as …
Jul 05
#SPFBO 2017 | Round One Mini Reviews
Well, it’s that time of year again. Time for me to sink into the SPFBO and tell you guys what I think and why I think it. Like always, this first group of thirty books I broke up into five groups of six books. Each book will get a mini-review, generally about a paragraph or …
Jun 30
Faithless – Graham Austin-King
About the Book The temples of the Forgefather have fallen. The clerics and defenders that could once be found across the nine lands are no more. Priests huddle in the great temple, clinging to the echoes of their lost religion. But the Father has fallen silent. There are none who still hear his voice. The …
Jun 20
Red Sister – Mark Lawrence
About the Book I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin. At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly …
Jun 12
Six Wakes – Mur Lafferty
About the Book A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer — before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how …
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