About the Book A prince with a quest. A commoner with mysterious powers. And dragons that demand to be freed—at any cost. Prince Corin has been chosen to free the dragons from their bondage to the Empire, but dragons aren’t big on directions. They have given him some of their power, but none of their…

A few fun dollops of news. A few weeks ago in this Books I’m Eyeing, I posted Crossover by Joel Shepherd. A few days ago, the UPS guy showed up at my door with, you guessed it, that book, and a nice note from Lisa, one of the lovely PR Guru’s at Pyr. What a…

About the Book As any reader of Jo Walton’s Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures,…

About the Book The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom’s magical elite—the Grisha. Could she be the key to…

About the Book Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn’t stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and their wild spell-casting shamans. Having split the walls with their sorcery and slaughtered the inhabitants with their axes, the victors carved up…

This week has been absolutely amazing, but a lot of what is so amazing about it is something I can’t talk about right now. The other part of what is so awesome happened last night, and I CAN talk about that. I have an open invitation to authors: If you people ever travel through this…

Ah yes, it is that time again. Friday, sweet Friday, where I post links to other reviews that other people worked hard to write so I don’t have to (today). In other news, tonight all of my badgering, bugging, coercing, and otherwise annoying someone pays off. Peter Orullian, the author of The Unremembered, is in…

About the Book Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die. Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die…

You can find me over on SF Signal (twice) right now. 1. I am attempting to make a Special Needs in Strange Worlds reading list, so head over there and tell me about ALL THE BOOKS I’ve missed (and there are a TON, I know). 2. You can also find me on the SF Signal…

About the Book THE GIRL WHO WOULDN’T DIE HUNTS THE KILLER WHO SHOULDN’T EXIST. The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.”  Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to…