Featured Review | The Liar’s Key – Mark Lawrence

Read my disclaimer here. P.S. I meant for this to be a book bite, but it ended up being the length of a normal review. About the Book The Red Queen has set her players on the board… Winter is keeping Prince Jalan Kendeth far from the longed-for luxuries of his southern palace. And although…

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Book Bite | Twelve Kings in Sharakhai – Bradley P. Beaulieu

See my full disclosure here. About the Book Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings—cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade Maidens, and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold…

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Featured Review | Our Lady of the Ice – Cassandra Rose Clarke

About the Book Hope City, Antarctica. The southernmost city in the world, with only a glass dome and a faltering infrastructure to protect its citizens from the freezing, ceaseless winds of the Antarctic wilderness. Within this bell jar four people–some human, some not–will shape the future of the city forever: Eliana Gomez, a female PI…

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Book Bite | Luna: New Moon – Ian McDonald

About the Book The scions of a falling house must navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family’s status in the Moon’s vicious political atmosphere The Moon wants to kill you. Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water, and air runs out, just before you hit…

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Featured Review | Wake of Vultures – Lila Bowen

About the Book A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She’s a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don’t call her a slave but use her like one….

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