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Published: June 24, 2014 Publisher: Harper Voyager ISBN: 9780062286727 Pages: 352 (Hardcover) Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: They call us things with teeth. These words from Lily Rose Sullivan the night of her death haunts her seventeen-year-old sister, Finn, who has moved with her widowed father to his hometown of Fair Hollow, New York. After befriending a... Continue Reading →
Published: September 29, 2015 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company ISBN: 9781627792127 Pages: 465 (Hardcover) Rating: 4.5/5.0 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... Continue Reading →
Published: October 6, 2015 Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 9780765378552 Pages: 383 (Hardcover) Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: Shadows of Self shows Mistborn’s society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for converts. This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society now... Continue Reading →
Published: January 1, 2012 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer ISBN: 1503946606 Pages: 309 (paperback) Rating: 3.5/5.0 Synopsis: Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved... Continue Reading →
Published: January 14, 2014 Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 0765336405 Author Info: Blog • Twitter Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: Book one in an epic fantasy of intrigue and empire, for fans of George R. R. Martin and Douglas Hulick. The circle is closing. The stakes are high. And old truths will live again . . . The... Continue Reading →
Rating: 4.0/5.0 Published: Nov. 11, 2015 Publisher: Full Fathom Five Digital Format: eBook ISBN: 9781633700871 Synopsis: From the moment Laura Rivers steps foot into Englewood High, she notices the stares—and they aren’t the typical once-overs every pretty new girl endures. The students seem confused and…spooked. Whispers echoing through the halls confirm that something is seriously... Continue Reading →
Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the two thieves return to Medford but receive a very different reception --- Gwen refuses to see them.... Continue Reading →
Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: Centuries after the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity - railroads, electric street lights, and skyscrapers. Waxillium Ladrian can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After 20 years in the dusty Roughs, in the city of Elendel, the new... Continue Reading →
Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England--until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight. Soon,... Continue Reading →
Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: Sean dips even further into his magical destiny, but will blood prove thicker than the mysteries of Innsmouth's briny depths? Sean Wyndham has tried to stay away from the lure of magic—the last time he tried to dabble in the dark studies, he inadvertently summoned a blood familiar, wreaking havoc on his... Continue Reading →
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