Synopsis Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that […]
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Review: Upon the Forge of Battle (Age of Wrath, #3) by Anthony Ryan
Synopsis: As the Age of Wrath reaches its bloody conclusion, the world will be reforged in steel and fire . . . Thera Blackspear was once champion to the Sister Queens. Now she’s a queen herself, with Elvine as her spear maiden, wielding a weapon forged by the gods. But while the traitorous Sister Lore […]
Review: Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
Synopsis: “We wake up to tomorrow, never yesterday.” At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she’s ever known. For ten hours a day, six days per week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica. She tells no one that before she arrived, […]
Review: Scion by James Islington
Synopsis: John Wick meets Blade Runner in this fast-paced cyberpunk thriller by the #1 NYT bestselling author of The Will of the Many. My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of […]
Review: The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims
Synopsis From the dark and twisted mind behind the podcast sensation The Magnus Archives comes a suffocating, socially charged nightmare that reveals how fear festers in the cracks of everyday life… Beneath the streets of London, it hungers… It’s the hottest summer on record and the city is suffering. Prices are high, pay is low. And on […]
Review: Hero of the Imperium (Warhammer 40K, Ciaphas Cain #1) by Sandy Mitchell
Synopsis The first Ciaphas Cain omnibus In the 41st millennium Commissar Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium, is an inspiration to his men – at least that’s what the propaganda would have you believe… READ IT BECAUSE Enjoy tall tales of adventure and derring-do in Commissar Cain’s memoirs (annotated by a sarcastic inquisitor). T’au, necrons […]
Review: Flame of Almandraaz (Ashes and Embers #1) by Timothy Robare
It seems like Dragonriders are everywhere nowadays. It’s not hard to understand why; dragons are cool. But more importantly, the subgenre taps into many of the fundamental elements that makes fantasy so captivating and fulfilling.
Animus Paradox (Digital Extremities #2) by Adam Bassett
Synopsis There’s a thief on the loose. The Tigres excel at tipping the scales in their favor, be it through bribes, politics, or blood. They unofficially run Viterbo, Italy—and somebody stole from them. Private investigators David and Mafalda De Campo have been hired to help find the thief. They’re in it for the money, but […]
Review: Daughters of Tith (Children of the Trees #1) by J. Patricia Anderson
Synopsis The kandar are the children of the trees. Powerful. Immutable. Nine hundred eternal beings who need no sleep nor sustenance, created at the beginning of time to guard the nine human Earths. That was never meant to change. The youngest of five sisters, Tchardin is about to be acknowledged as queen of the kandar. […]
Review: Daybreak (Sorrowsong University #2) by Autumn Woods
I read this in two days. I only stopped reading when I had to. I quite literally cried at the end. I actually adore this duology, and I know I’ll be re-reading it again in the future.
Review: One-Fifth Dragon by Shami Stovall
Synopsis: DRAGONS, ASSASSINS, AND NINJAS! They call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold. Their ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me into a weapon. They taught me the art of how to slip […]
Digital Extremities (Digital Extremities #1) by Adam Bassett
Synopsis A collection of eight stories, Digital Extremities shines a spotlight on ordinary people in a callous yet hopeful future. Set across small towns and remote islands, where neon flickers against old buildings and oaks, this collection paints a unique view of a traditionally cyberpunk setting. In 2089, a woman miscarries and seeks a way […]