Element Keepers – E.P. Marcellin

About the Book Rhet guts fish for a living, content in obscurity until the day he is plucked from the wharves by nine exotic strangers and carted across the continent to a life-sentence of imprisonment. Though he has done nothing (as far as he knows) to warrant such capture, his captors are certain he will…

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After the Golden Age – Carrie Vaughn

About the Book Can an accountant defeat a supervillain? Celia West, only daughter of the heroic leaders of the superpowered Olympiad, has spent the past few years estranged from her parents and their high-powered lifestyle. She’s had enough of masks and heroics, and wants only to live her own quiet life out from under the…

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The Fallen Blade – Jon Courtenay Grimwood

About the Book In the depths of night, customs officers board a galley in a harbor and overpower its guards. In the hold they find oil and silver, and a naked boy chained to the bulkhead. Stunningly beautiful but half-starved, the boy has no name. The officers break the boy’s chains to rescue him, but…

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Dragon Prince – Melanie Rawn

About the Book Melanie Rawn’s best-selling debut is a novel of love and war, magic and madness, and deadly dangerous dragons that hold the secret to unimaginable wealth that could prove key to mutual peace-or a bloody tyrant’s reign. And among it all, an idealistic young ruler struggles to civilize a culture that understands the…

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The Dark Mirror – Juliet Marillier

About the Book Bridei is a young nobleman, a fosterling of one of the most powerful druids in the land, Broichan. All of Bridei’s earliest memories are of this dark and mysterious man he trusts above all others. Broichan seems to have plans for Bridei, seems to be training him for a special purpose the…

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Leviathan – Scott Westerfeld (TMWTR)

About the Book:  Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She’s…

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Storm Front – Jim Butcher (TMWTR #2)

About this Book Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he’s the onlyat what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most don’t play well…

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In the Shadow of Swords – Val Gunn

About this Book When legendary killer Ciris Sarn ends a life in an empty city plaza with a single dagger thrust, little does he know that an insidious game has been triggered by the brutal slaying. Turning predator into prey, this part fantasy, part espionage novel races along as it follows the now hunted Sarn across…

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Dragon Keeper/Haven – Robin Hobb

I write this review with a heavy heart. I have put off writing this review for a few days now because I just didn’t know what to say or how to say it. I’m a huge Hobb fan. The Farseer trilogy remains firmly wedged on my bookshelf, keeping company with George R. R. Martin and…

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A Forest of Stars – Kevin J. Anderson

Back Cover Blurb:  Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the spiral arm, the hydroges maintain full control over stardive fuel…and their embargo is strangling civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydroges and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don’t realize these military robots have…

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