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Published: October 22, 2019 Publisher: Orbit Books Series: Lightbringer #5 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 992 (Hardcover) My Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: The nail-biting conclusion to the Lightbringer series! Stripped of both magical and political power, the people he once ruled told he's dead, and now imprisoned in his own magical dungeon, former Emperor Gavin Guile has no... Continue Reading →
Published: November 5, 2019 Publisher: Tor Books Series: Chronicles of Amicae #2 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 416 (Paperback) My Rating: 3.5/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The Monstrous Citadel is the sequel to Mirah Bolender's City of Broken Magic--a fast-paced, adventure fantasy where a bomb squad... Continue Reading →
Published: December 2, 2019 Publisher: Orbit Books Series: Gods of Blood & Powder #3 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 592 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: As the final battle approaches a sellsword, a spy, and a general must find unlikely and... Continue Reading →
Published: October 8, 2019 Publisher: DAW Series: The Thorne Chronicles #1 Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 416 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: First in a duology that reimagines fairy tale tropes within a space opera—The Princess Bride meets Princess Leia. Rory Thorne... Continue Reading →
Published: October 29, 2019 Publisher: DAW Series: Maradaine Elite #2 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 400 (Paperback) My Rating: 3.5/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The second novel in the Maradaine Elite series blends fast-paced high fantasy and political intrigue. After stopping Tharek Pell and... Continue Reading →
Published: January 28, 2020 Publisher: Harper Perennial Series: Standalone Genre: Fantasy Pages: 384 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a... Continue Reading →
Published: October 8, 2019 Publisher: Flatiron Books Series: Alex Stern #1 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 458 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug... Continue Reading →
Published: September 10, 2019 Publisher: Jimmy Patterson Series: Stalking Jack the Ripper #4 Genre: Young Adult, Mystery Pages: 453 (Hardcover) My Rating: 2.0/5.0 Synopsis: In the shocking finale to the bestselling series that began with Stalking Jack the Ripper, Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the hunt for the depraved, elusive killer known as the... Continue Reading →
Published: October 15, 2019 Publisher: Orbit Books Series: Hostage of Empire #1 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 704 (Paperback) My Rating: 5.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Two queens, two concubines, six princes. Innumerable hidden agendas. Yala, lady-in-waiting to the princess of a vanquished kingdom,... Continue Reading →
Published: October 3, 2013 (orig. Oct 16, 1959) Publisher: Penguin Books Series: Standalone Genre: Horror Pages: 235 (Hardcover) My Rating: 2.0/5.0 Synopsis: First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile... Continue Reading →
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