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Published: October 24, 2017 Publisher: Orbit Genre: Fantasy Series: Swords and Fire #1 Pages: 438 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: In the Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled -- taken as children... Continue Reading →
Published: October 17, 2017 Publisher: Tor.com Genre: Fantasy Series: Industrial Magic #2 Pages: 192 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Charlotte is learning to control her emerging magical prowess under the secret tutelage of Magus Hopkins. Her first covert mission... Continue Reading →
Published: December 5, 2017 Publisher: Del Rey Genre: Fantasy Series: Winternight Trilogy #2 Pages: 363 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to... Continue Reading →
Published: February 8, 2011 Publisher: Penguin Books Genre: Fantasy Series: All Souls Trilogy #1 Pages: 579 (Hardcover) My Rating: 2.5/5.0 Synopsis: A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up... Continue Reading →
Published: August 1, 2017 Publisher: Lorena Jones Books Genre: Cooking Pages: 352 (Hardcover) I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: A beautiful culinary and ethnobotanical survey of the punch-packing ingredient central to today's multi-cultural palate, with more than 40 pan-Latin recipes from a three-time James... Continue Reading →
Published: November 1, 2016 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Genre: Fantasy Series: Standalone Pages: 672 (Paperback) My Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: The first casualty of war is truth . . . First, Denland's revolutionaries assassinated their king, launching a wave of bloodshed after generations of peace. Next they clashed with Lascanne, their royalist neighbour, pitching war-machines against warlocks... Continue Reading →
Published: November 7, 2017 Publisher: Tor Books Genre: Science Fiction Series: Standalone Pages: 416 (Paperback) My Rating: DNF A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Steal the Stars, a debut novel by Nat Cassidy, is based on the debut science fiction podcast from Tor Labs.... Continue Reading →
Published: September 26, 2017 Publisher: Little,Brown Books for Young Readers Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction Series: Standalone Pages: 458 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Time flies when you're plundering history. Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The... Continue Reading →
Published: November 14, 2017 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Genre: Fantasy Series: The Stormlight Archive #3 Length: 55 hr 2 min My Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Timesbestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.... Continue Reading →
Published: November 14, 2017 Publisher: Hachette Audio Genre: Horror, Science Fiction Series: Rolling in the Deep #1 Length: 17 hr 14 min My Rating: 4.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana... Continue Reading →
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