NOTE: This is a review of a full trilogy, so I did not add book synopses and yes, this may contain some minor spoilers. — I don’t generally like to review an entire series at once, but sometimes it must be done. I recently read The Assassini trilogy by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. I read each…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book The Incrementalists—a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations, races, and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city – for the undead! Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book editor in…
Continue ReadingAlright, earlier this week I posted the cover art from Tor that has me excited. Now it’s Orbit’s turn. Do any of these covers hit you just right? — Blaine McFadden survived six years in the brutal Velant prison colony, exiled for murder. When war devastates his homeland of Donderath, it also destroys the intentional…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book TWO THIEVES WANT ANSWERS. RIYRIA IS BORN. For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the two thieves return to Medford but receive a very different…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book A dark, romantic fantasy set against the backdrop of San Francisco devastated by the Great Quake It is the dawn of a new century in San Francisco and Delia Martin is a wealthy young woman whose life appears ideal. But a dark secret colors her life, for Delia’s most loyal companions are…
Continue ReadingDue to popular request, I’m going to continue with cover art. Why? Because I can, and you asked for it. Over on Gollancz, Sam Sykes has revealed his cover art for his new book, A City Stained Red, as well as a nice post about the book, the cover art, etc. Check it out here….
Continue ReadingAbout the Book Miriam Black knows when you will die. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides. But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book Edward Lazellari brings you The Lost Prince, and the race to find the missing prince is on . . . In Lazellari’s debut fantasy, Awakenings, New York City cop Cal MacDonnell and photographer Seth Raincrest found themselves stalked by otherworldly beings intent on killing them. The two had to accept the aid of a mysterious…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics–at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science. Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn…
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