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Published: September 13, 2011 Publisher: Doubleday Genre: Fantasy Pages: 387 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des... Continue Reading →
Published: November 5, 2013 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Genre: YA, Fantasy Pages: 310 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests? Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing... Continue Reading →
Published: July 5, 2016 Publisher: Ace Genre: Fantasy Pages: 592 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.5/5.0 Synopsis: The Waking Fire is set in a vibrant new world where the blood of drakes—creatures similar to dragons—is valued beyond reckoning, and can be distilled into elixirs that grant fearsome powers to those who are “blood-blessed.” The novel follows... Continue Reading →
Published: August 9, 2016 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Genre: Fantasy Pages: 448 (Hardcover) My Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape... Continue Reading →
Published: June 2, 2011 Publisher: Orbit Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 561 (Paperback) My Rating: 3.0/5.0 Synopsis: Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings... Continue Reading →
Published: July 26, 2016 Publisher: Tor Books Genre: Horror, Fantasy Pages: 304 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.0/5.0 Synopsis: Charlie Tristan Moore isn't a hero. She's a survivor. On a night when her demons from the past are triggered, she arrives home to something even more harrowing-an attack by three monstrous skinhounds, creatures straight out... Continue Reading →
Published: April 16, 2013 Publisher: Orbit Genre: Fantasy Pages: 545 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it. It's a bloody business overthrowing a king... Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to... Continue Reading →
Published: July 19, 2016 Publisher: Tor.com Genre: Urban Fantasy Pages: 176 (Kindle) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: Alex McKenna is the new Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the Bureau of Paranormal Investigations—the division tasked with investigating crimes involving shades. Or vampires, as they’re more widely known. Children have been going missing, and... Continue Reading →
Published: June 14, 2016 Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company Genre: Fantasy Pages: 583 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: In this spirited sequel, The Rook returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert epic—and slimy—supernatural war. When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the... Continue Reading →
Published: July 12, 2016 Publisher: Tor Books Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 432 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: Having been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future. Earth is a toxic, sparsely inhabited wastelandthe perfect hiding place for a fugitive exchronman to hide from the... Continue Reading →
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