Synopsis: Tell me how it happened… Layne was a soldier, conscripted to fight under the Fox in a vengeance fueled march. He, and his friends, were due for a fated confrontation, one that has ended in blood and loss. Now, the inquisitors want to hear every detail of his conscription, his training, and the duel […]
Reviews
The Misheard World by Aliya Whiteley
Synopsis Before wars are won, they must be witnessed. Elize Janview is a soldier, one of the few survivors of an unimaginably terrible weapon, which ended the long detente between the North and the South and plunged them back into all-out war. She enlisted with a dream of finding those responsible, of somehow getting revenge […]
Review: For Human Use by Sarah G. Pierce
Synopsis: Finding a human connection online has become impossible. Enter Liv: a dating app that matches people with dead bodies. Somehow, it has taken the world by storm. Millions of users are convinced that life with a corpse presents a better alternative to conventional relationships. Flailing against Liv’s popularity, venture capital superstar Tom Williamson–whose company […]
Review: The Builders by Daniel Polansky
Synopsis A missing eye.A broken wing.A stolen country. The last job didn’t end well. Years go by, and scars fade, but memories only fester. For the animals of the Captain’s company, survival has meant keeping a low profile, building a new life, and trying to forget the war they lost. But now the Captain’s whiskers […]
Review: Red Empire (Rogue Team International Series Book 5) by Jonathan Maberry
Synopsis In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the team faces new and old enemies alike as a bioengineered version of The Black Death surfaces.Hundreds of years after the first waves of the bubonic plague swept through Europe, a new, more dangerous version […]
Book Review: The Trident and the Pearl (The Fisher King #1) by Sarah KL Wilson
TL;DR Review: Fans of Circe and A Song for Achilles will be instantly enchanted by the beautiful prose and Greek-coded flavor of this myth retelling. Synopsis: A desperate queen makes a deal with the gods to save her land in this spellbinding romantasy debut from Sarah K. L. Wilson. Queen Coralys rules the Kingdom of […]
Review: The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
Synopsis: 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, […]
Review: The Extra (The Outsiders Sequence #1) by Annie Neugebauer
The Extra grabbed me by the throat, pulled me into its web of paranoia, dread, existential questions, and nerve-shredding, palm-sweating pace, and refused to let me go until I read the whole thing in one sitting.
Review: Night of the Manequins by Stephen Graham Jones
Synopsis: We thought we’d play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead. One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until it starts killing. […]
SPFBO Review: Flint in the Bones (Norwich Map Runners #1) by Eva St. John
Synopsis In a city where history bites back, murder is just the beginning. Detective Eliza “Bish” Barnaby thought she’d left her home behind—along with its plague outbreaks, random time-shifts, and tendency to accidentally host people from the 1600s during breakfast. But when a dangerous practitioner escapes custody in London, Bish is forced back to Norwich, […]
Review: Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo
Synopsis Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price―and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . . […]
Review: Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
Synopsis A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl. All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch with his sister, maybe play a gig […]