Not A Review: Afterparty – Daryl Gregory

About the Book It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church…

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Books I’m Eyeing

Well, I meant to get this posted much earlier today and failed in an epic way. I decided to sleep last night instead of writing posts for the website. I apologize. Anyway… My giveaway of Blood and Iron and The Barrow has ended. One of my coworkers picked a random number between 1-81 (which is…

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A Turn of Light – Julie E. Czerneda

About the Book The village of Marrowdell is an isolated pioneer community, but it is also the place where two worlds overlap, and at the turn of light–sunset–the world of magic known as the Verge can briefly be seen. Jenn Nalynn belongs to both Verge and Marrowdell, but even she doesn’t know how special she…

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The Lascar’s Dagger – Glenda Larke

About the Book Faith will not save him. Saker appears to be a simple priest, but in truth he’s a spy for the head of his faith. Wounded in the line of duty by a Lascar sailor’s blade, the weapon seems to follow him home. Unable to discard it, nor the sense of responsibility it…

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Gemsigns – Stephanie Saulter

About the Book Humanity stands on the brink. Again. Surviving the Syndrome meant genetically modifying almost every person on the planet. But norms and gems are different. Gems may have the superpowers that once made them valuable commodities, but they also have more than their share of the disabled, the violent and the psychotic. After…

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Books I’m Eyeing

This week my giveaway for two copies of Night Owls has ended. I decided I could randomly choose two winners myself, or I could assign everyone who entered a number and have two people at my work (who know absolutely nothing about my website) pick two numbers. The two winners (as chosen by two kind…

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GIVEAWAY | The Barrow AND Blood and Iron

Ah, my lovelies, I know what you are thinking: “Sarah, you just HAD a giveaway. What the hell is this all about? Are you hungry for attention or something?” (Okay, maybe that’s not what you are thinking…) Well, here’s the deal. I have a record number of giveaways coming through the website in the next…

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The Tropic of Serpents – Marie Brennan

About the Book The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan’s The Tropic of Serpents . . . Attentive readers of Lady Trent’s earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one…

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Blood and Iron – Jon Sprunk

About the Book Set in a richly-imagined world, this action-heavy fantasy epic and series opener is like a sword-and-sorcery Spartacus. It starts with a shipwreck following a magical storm at sea. Horace, a soldier from the west, had joined the Great Crusade against the heathens of Akeshia after the deaths of his wife and son…

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Night Broken – Patricia Briggs

About the Book An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam’s ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from her new boyfriend. Adam isn’t the kind of man to turn away a person in need—and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam’s house, Mercy can’t shake the…

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