Synopsis: Heaven was perfect, until they came for his son. When angel engineer Zak’s infant son is cast down for being born without wings, he faces Heaven’s cruel mandate: forget, or fall. Clipped, Zak plummets to a broken Earth, where false prophets exploit the faithful, drug lords rule dead cities, and every truth comes with […]
Dystopian
Review: Hive (Madders of Time #1) by D.L. Orton
Synopsis: What if saving the future meant rewriting the past? In a dying world overrun by microdrones, humanity’s last survivors cling to life inside the Eden-17 biodome. Isabelle Sanborn knows her time is running out, but one desperate plan might give humanity a second chance. With the help of Madders, an enigmatic AI built from […]
Review: The Lost Years PT I (Hell Divers 1.5) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Synopsis From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes a brand new novella set in the world of the Hell Divers series. Before you knew him as the king or the Immortal, he was Commander Xavier “X” Rodriguez—with ninety-six dives under his belt, the most experienced Hell Diver on the airship known as the […]
Review: Scales by Christopher Hinz
Synopsis An electrifying thriller about species re-engineering run amok, Scales is a great, fast-paced read perfect for fans of Jurassic Park. A secret corporate-military project enhances four men with dinosaur traits to sell the public on a next-gen army of super-soldiers. But weeks before the big media unveiling, Eddie Boka, leader of the dino-prototypes, falls victim to a […]
Review: Last Chance to Save The World (Chaotic Orbits #3) by Beth Revis
Synopsis After a few weeks trapped on board a spaceship with Ada (and, oh look, there’s only one bed), Rian has to admit that maybe Ada’s rebels have a point. The nanobots poised to be unleashed on Earth are infected with malware that will ultimately leave the residents of Earth in a worse position than […]
Review: Rebel Unbound (Promissa Trilogy #1) by E.R. Phoenix
Synopsis: 2213. After decades of war, the city of Promissa is under the rule of the New World Government, which controls every aspect of the citizens’ lives by restricting resource distribution. Abigail is hurled into this world of brutality and despair and loses hope as loneliness and misery swallow her whole. Little does she know […]
Review: How to Steal a Galaxy (Chaotic Orbits #2) by Beth Revis
Synopsis Ada had no intention whatsoever to continue working for the rebel group that hired her to retrieve the government’s plans for a nanobot climate cleaner if they weren’t willing to pay her for it, but then they offer a different perk: an undercover mission to a charity gala where Rian will be in attendance. […]
Review: Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits #1) by Beth Revis
Synopsis Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s rights won’t get her far when she’s got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a government salvage crew—and while they reluctantly rescue her […]
Review: Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers
Synopsis Becky Chambers’ delightful, post-Utopian, Hugo Award-winning series gives us hope for the future. It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the […]
Review: Unlucky Evens, Cursed Odds by Bill Adams
Synopsis: The hateful Path, that of the 9th Born. The survival of the Ark—humanity’s last bastion after God’s wrath destroyed the world—is balanced by birth order: the oddborn are assigned a Path, the evenborn are given over to the will of God. And it is upon those of the 9th Born Path to sanitize the […]
Review: Orders of Magnitude by Yuval Kordov
Synopsis: The Moon was once colonized. Now it lies silent—mostly. When a mysterious radio signal echoes from the abandoned colony of Serenitatis, the Vatican dispatches an elite squad of space marines to investigate. Paladin-Captain Samuel Cohen’s mission is simple: locate survivors, uncover the signal’s source, and get out. But beneath the sterile domes, something ancient stirs—an […]
Review: Rhino: The Rise of a Warrior: A Hell Divers Novel by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Synopsis “Conan meets Mad Max for a new generation.” –Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author In the brutal wasteland centuries after the nuclear apocalypse, a warrior baptized in blood will defy the brutal empire that has enslaved his people. Over two centuries have passed since the Third World War reduced civilization to ashes in a global […]