In my endless quest to catch up on my to-be-reviewed pile, I’m going to review three urban fantasy/paranormal romance books I’ve received and read recently. Please keep in mind that this sort of thing isn’t my usual reading diet. I will try, very hard, to write these reviews as if I loved these two genres,…

About the Book Call it a miracle or an accident at the sperm bank. But Julie Katz, the half-sister of Jesus, has been born to a celibate father. Soon poor Julie is tempted by the Devil and challenged by neo-Christian zealots-and that’s just the beginning of her fantastic odyssey through Hell, a seceded New Jersey,…

About the Book I’ve been told to go to Hell more times than I can count. But this time I’m actually going. My name’s Bobby Dollar, sometimes known as Doloriel, and of course, Hell isn’t a great place for someone like me – I’m an angel. They don’t like my kind down there, not even…

About the Book Having pulled off the greatest heist of their career, Locke and his trusted partner in thievery, Jean, have escaped with a tidy fortune. But Locke’s body is paying the price. Poisoned by an enemy from his past, he is slowly dying. And no physiker or alchemist can help him. Yet just as…

It isn’t often that cover art makes me stop in my tracks and just stare for a few minutes. This cover, however, did. Tor.com just released this on Facebook. I’m nabbing it and putting it on my website because… LOOK AT IT.  Full disclosure: This novella will be released on tor.com in April, 2014. Author’s profile,…

About the Book On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren–a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the…

There isn’t much that gets me more excited than a new C.S. Friedman book (Okay, a new K.J. Parker book would probably get me this excited, too.). Friedman was one of the first authors I read when I really started exploring the genre. Her books are deeper and darker than the typical, which is absolutely…

About the Book A masterful, twisted tale of ambition, jealousy, betrayal, and superpowers, set in a near-future world. Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events…

About the Author “A J Dalton (the ‘A’ is for Adam) has been an English language teacher as far afield as Egypt, the Czech Republic, Thailand, Slovakia, Poland and Manchester University. He has lived in Manchester since 2003, but has a conspicuous Cockney accent, as he was born in Croydon on a dark night, when…

About the Author Gini Koch lives in Hell’s Orientation Area (aka Phoenix, AZ), works her butt off (sadly, not literally) by day, and writes by night with the rest of the beautiful people. She writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files series, and the Martian…