The Native Star – M.K. Hobson

About the book The year is 1876. Inthe small Sierra Nevada settlement of Lost Pine, the town witch, Emily Edwards,is being run out of business by an influx of mail-order patent magics.Attempting to solve her problem with a love spell, Emily only makes thingsworse. But before she can undo the damage, an enchanted artifact falls…

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Thief’s Covenant – Ari Marmell

About thebook Onceshe was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escapeddestitution and climbed to the ranks of the city’s aristocracy in arags-to-riches story straight from an ancient fairy tale. Until one horridnight, when a conspiracy of forces—human and other—stole it all away in aflurry of blood and murder.  Today she isWiddershins, a…

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Home Fires – Gene Wolfe

About the book Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America atonce familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fallin love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is awar on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down….

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The Doctor and the Kid – Mike Resnick

About the book Doc Holliday needs to replenish his bankrollquickly and uses his skill as a shootist to turn bounty hunter. The biggestreward is for the death of Billy the Kid. Doc enlists the aid of both magic(Geronimo) and science (Thomas Edison). 323pages (paperback) Publishedby: Pyr Author’swebsite Thanks to Pyr for sending me a copy…

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The Third Section – Jasper Kent

About the book The third novel in Jasper Kent’s enthralling, chilling and acclaimed historical vampire sequence — The Danilov Quintet.Russia 1855. After forty years of peace in Europe, war rages. In the Crimea, the city of Sevastopol is besieged. In the north, Saint Petersburg is blockaded. But in Moscow there is one who needs only…

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Territory – Emma Bull

About the book Wyatt Earp. DocHolliday. Ike Clanton.   You think you know the story. You don’t.   Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one ofthe richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run likeley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knowshow to…

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Not a review: Percepliquis – Michael J. Sullivan

About the book IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS…THE ELVES HAVE CROSSEDTHE NIDWALDEN. TWO THIEVES WILL DECIDE THE FUTURE  “I saw a great journey. Ten upon theroad, she who wears the light will lead the way. The road goes deep into theearth, and into despair. The voices of the dead guide your steps. You walk…

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Lightbringer – K.D. McEntire

About the book The Never is a place of greys, a world a breathbeyond our own, layered just past the memories of yesterday and the fleetingpresent moment. It is here, in this dismal limbo, that ghosts such as Piotr,Lily, and Elle must sort out an existence, both protecting the children calledLost and themselves from the…

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Legacy of Kings – C.S. Friedman

About the book The young peasant woman Kamala has proven strongand determined enough to claim the most powerful Magister sorcery forherself-but now the Magisters hunt her for killing one of their own. Her onlyhope of survival lies in the northern Protectorates, where spells are warped bya curse called the Wrath that even the Magisters fear….

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Laini Taylor

About the book Around the world, black handprints are appearing ondoorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit inthe sky.  In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply ofhuman teeth grown dangerously low.  And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young artstudent is about to be caught up in…

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