Synopsis Beginning with a novella by Spider-Man’s co-creator Stan Lee and veteran Marvel writer Peter David retelling the wall-crawler’s origin, this exciting anthology has original stories featuring one of the world’s most enduring heroes. From Tom De Haven and Dean Wesley Smith’s look at Spidey’s early career to David Michelinie’s portrait of a dying reporter […]
Reviews
Review: Your Blood and Bones by J. Patricia Anderson
Synopsis: Kill the monsters when they’re found. No matter who they used to be. The girl with secret feathers in her skin and strange bones jutting out beneath her clothes is resigned to her fate. Her deformities mark her a monster and the stories say monsters must die. When her family finds out and turns […]
Book Review: Hell of a Witch (Tear Down Heaven #2) by Rachel Aaron
TL;DR Review: Action, romance, magic, and intrigue dialed up to max intensity. A delicious “will they, won’t they” I absolutely loved. Synopsis: The hotly anticipated sequel to HELL FOR HIRE! One month ago, Bex, the demon Queen of Wrath, and Adrian, witch of the Blackwood, pulled off the upset victory of the century. Now, they […]
Review: From the Depths (The Heart of Quinaria #0.6) by B.S.H. Garcia
Synopsis: The world can sustain the needs of many, but the greed of a few can destroy it for all. In a life steeped in peril, the Brune family has thrived on the knife’s edge. Renowned for their smuggling and bounty exploits, Konar and Karliah’s parents command both respect and fear. Comfortable yet haunted, the […]
Review: Fall, Sacred Apple by Emory Glass (The Chroma Books)
A tragedy that punches well above its weight, Fall, Sacred Apple introduces us to a world teeming with possibilities and unrest.
Review: Ted’s Score by Daniel P. Coughlin
Synopsis When beautiful Jules Benton, a seventeen-year-old senior, goes missing after the spring formal dance in the small town of Watertown, Wisconsin, her father, Richard, becomes suspicious of Jules’ boyfriend, David Miller, and his involvement with her disappearance. When Richard confirms his suspicions, the brutality of his capability consumes him, and soon David will find […]
Review: A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) by Deborah Harkness
Synopsis: In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Review: I picked up this book based […]
Review: For A Few Days More by Z.B. Steele
Synopsis The Hinterlands are a lawless place of broken dreams and broken people. Roth is a bodyguard trying to leave his dark past behind, but history has a way of turning back up. Cynthia is a bandit who’s trying to make a future by wading through blood. They travel separately, trying to live by their own codes. […]
Book Review : New York Minute by Stephen Aryan
Synopsis: A noir story, set in an alternate New York City. After years of being a cop, and now a private investigator, there’s little that surprises Cole Blackstone. But when someone working for Karl Dolman, the most notorious crime boss in the city asks for his help, Cole is caught off guard, and more than […]
Review: And He Shall Appear by Kate Van Der Borgh
And He Shall Appear is very much a spec-fic character and psychology study, with few and unexpected answers, beautiful if at times self-indulgent prose (which fits perfectly in context) and very lyrical narration carried out by an unreliable and (very cleverly) unnamed narrator.
Review: A Slow Ship to Oblivion by Jake Theriault
Synopsis Jett Dresden is an engineer aboard the mammoth generation ship The Cradle of Sky, 4,000 years into a 6,000 year voyage toward a new star system. But when the ship’s astronomers make a startling discovery about the Cradle’s destination, Jett learns that she may be the only person capable of righting the course of […]
Review: After the Syzygy by J.D. Sanderson
In 1977, humans placed the Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft with the hope it would be found by an alien civilization in the future.
In 2036, the alien equivalent arrived on Earth.