Synopsis: During one of the most violent battles of the Civil War, three brothers fighting for the Confederate army decide to go AWOL and make their way home, willing to risk execution rather than be killed in a losing war. After several exhausting weeks of rough terrain, the brothers find a miracle deep in the […]
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Review: Innamorata (House of Teeth 1) by Ava Reid
Synopsis: Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy. A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic. But defiant against the new order stands the House of Teeth and its last living […]
Review: We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune
Synopsis: We Burned So Bright is the heartfelt, queer, road trip of a novel from TJ Klune, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Cerulean Chronicles and The Bones Beneath My Skin Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good, long life. Together, they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt […]
Review: The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen
Synopsis: The starship Horizon’s crew spent ten years trapped across the expanse of space. Now they’re finally home—only it’s not the home they knew. The Cluster, once a peaceful coalition of planets, has fractured in the wake of civil war. Captain Demora Kim wants nothing more than to protect her surviving crew. It’s what she owes […]
Review: Seek The Traitor’s Son by Veronica Roth
Synopsis: A new epic romantic, dystopian fantasy begins in Seek the Traitor’s Son, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. Elegy Ahn did not ask for destiny to find her. She is happy with her life as a soldier, defending her small country from the Talusar, a powerful nation who worships a deadly Fever. A fever […]
Review: Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption. In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake. Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he […]
SPFBO XI: A Third Semifinalist and more cuts!
Huzzah! We’re back again with our third semi-finalist, and a few more books that we have to cut. We’ll have five total semi-finalists, so there are still two more posts to come! Let’s start with today’s cuts: The Snatcher by Amanda N. Newman What the judges had to say: Arun: Interesting world but not fleshed […]
A Long And Speaking Silence (Singing Hills Cycle #7) by Nghi Vo
Synopsis Every story begins somewhere. On the banks of the Ya-lé River, the town of Luntien gathers to celebrate the start of the rainy season, but the celebration is marred by the arrival of refugees from the sea. Everyone has a story about the foreigners newly in their midst—lazy, violent, unwanted—while the refugees themselves grieve […]
Review: The Umbrella Academy Boxed Set by Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá
Synopsis The New York Times bestselling comics series that was the inspiration for The Umbrella Academy on Netflix, now on Season 3! Three magnificent New York Times bestselling Umbrella Academy graphic novels are collected in one deluxe boxed set featuring an exclusive, double-sided poster! (Note: there is one box; image shows both sides) In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-three extraordinary children were spontaneously born by […]
Review: Priest of Lies (War for the Rose Throne #2) by Peter McLean
Synopsis Tomas Piety has been many things: soldier, priest, gangster…and spy. As Tomas’s power grows, the nobility better watch their backs, in this dark and gritty epic fantasy series. People are weak, and the poorer and more oppressed they are, the weaker they become–until they can’t take it anymore. And when they rise up…may the […]
Review: A Drowned Kingdom (The Drowned Kingdom #1) by P.L. Stuart
Synopsis Once Second Prince of the mightiest kingdom in the known world, Othrun now leads the last survivors of his exiled people into an uncertain future far across the Shimmering Sea from their ancestral home, now lost beneath the waves. With his Single God binding his knights to chivalric oaths, intent on wiping out idolatry […]
Steel Gods (Book Two of The Great Silence) by Richard Swan
***The Sunday Times bestselling Great Silence series continues*** THE EMPIRE OF THE WOLF TEETERS ON THE BRINK The true horror of the Great Silence has been revealed. As nation after nation succumbs to the mind-plague and Sova scrambles to enlist help from across the globe, Ambassador Renata Rainer has been given a simple task: save […]