Book Bite | Twelve Kings in Sharakhai – Bradley P. Beaulieu

See my full disclosure here. About the Book Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings—cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade Maidens, and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold…

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Book Bite | Luna: New Moon – Ian McDonald

About the Book The scions of a falling house must navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family’s status in the Moon’s vicious political atmosphere The Moon wants to kill you. Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water, and air runs out, just before you hit…

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Book Bites | The Last Witness – K.J. Parker

[notice][/notice] About the Book When you need a memory to be wiped, call me. Transferring unwanted memories to my own mind is the only form of magic I’ve ever mastered. But now, I’m holding so many memories I’m not always sure which ones are actually mine, any more. Some of them are sensitive; all of…

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Book Bites | Fae: The Wild Hunt – Graham Austin-King

About the Book Faeries… The fae… The stuff of bedtime stories and fables. But sometimes the faerie tales are true. Sometimes they are a warning… For a hundred generations the fae have been locked away from the world, in the cold, the Outside. They have faded out of sight and mind, into myth and folklore….

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Book Bites | The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood

About the Book Living in their car, surviving on tips, Charmaine and Stan are in a desperate state. So, when they see an advertisement for Consilience, a ‘social experiment’ offering stable jobs and a home of their own, they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for suburban paradise is give up…

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