The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

About the Book It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only…

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The "Gateway Drug" of Speculative Fiction

Instead of posting a review today (I’m having another bad energy day so I just don’t have it in me) I’m going to ask a question of my dear readers about what YOUR gateway drugs of speculative fiction are. Continue reading to see what I’m talking about.  I was online talking to a fellow speculative…

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Archangel – Sharon Shinn (TMWTR)

About the Book From the acclaimed author of The Shape-Changer’s Wife comes a stunningly beautiful novel of a distant future–where the fate of the world rests in the voice of an angel. An age of corruption has come to the planet of Samaria, threatening that peace and placing the Samaritans in grave danger. Their only…

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Among Others – Jo Walton

I don’t really know where to start with this book. I read it, and had to put it aside for a few days to fully process it before I could even contemplate reviewing it. The book is…different. In some respects subtle might be a good word for it.  Among Others is written as a sort…

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A thrilling book related meme

So, Amanda over on Floor to Ceiling Books is doing a Passion series to kind of familiarize her readers with who she is as a person. I thought this was an interesting idea and since I’m not reviewing a book today I figured I’d kind of do my own take on her idea. I found this…

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Fathom – Cherie Priest

About the Book The ageless water witch Arahab has been scheming for aeons, gathering the means to awaken the great Leviathan. She aims to bring him and the old gods back to their former glory, caring little that their ascendance would also mean an end to the human race. However, awakening the Leviathan is no…

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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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The Broken Kingdoms – N.K. Jemisin

About the Book In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies…

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