About the Book In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson’s The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies: genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To join one of the…

For what its worth, this is probably my favorite series going right now. It’s fantastic, well written, with characters you can’t help but love. More than that, it is an important series, highlighting diversity in all different forms, in thoughtful, considerate ways that will really stick with readers and provoke thought. I am going to…

About the Book Jacob Kelley’s family is turned upside down when an old friend turns up, waving a gun and babbling about an alien quantum intelligence. The mystery deepens when the friend is found dead in an underground bunker…apparently murdered the night before he appeared at Jacob’s house. Jacob is arrested for the murder and…

About the Book Gavin Guile is dying. He’d thought he had five years left—now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the…

Well, this is a lot later than I thought it would be. Life kind of exploded and I’ve been… overwhelmed. Anyway, I read my first five books and I thought a bit about how I could best go about reviewing them. I could write full length reviews, but honestly I’m pretty crunched for time right…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably been aware of the Sad Puppies Hugo drama that erupted this weekend. I won’t go over the details. You guys can look them up. They are everywhere. For the first year ever I do have some thoughts I want to put into the ether regarding this…

About the Book The #1 New York Times bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, “is back with a vengeance” (Tangled Web) with this first book in an all-new trilogy—and inviting readers to an even darker place on the map…  Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few…

About the Book Peter Orullian’s epic fantasy debut, The Unremembered, has been critically acclaimed, earning starred reviews and glowing praise. And as much as readers enjoyed the first edition of The Unremembered, it’s about to get even better. In anticipation of the second volume in Orullian’s epic series, and for one of the few times…

About the Book My name is Jax. That is the name granted to be by my human masters. I am a clakker: a mechanical man, powered by alchemy. Armies of my kind have conquered the world – and made the Brasswork Throne the sole superpower. I am a faithful servant. I am the ultimate fighting…

I’ve recently started listening to audiobooks. I’ve discovered that I really enjoy them… well, some of them. Others, not so much. I haven’t listened to a ton of them yet, but I’ve listened to enough to give you a Top Five list. I’ve been getting most of them from the library, which keeps me listening…