Published: December 14, 2011 Publisher: Orbit Genre: Fantasy Pages: 786 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: A PUPPET IS CROWNED. THE TRUE HEIR REMAINS HIDDEN. A ROGUE'S SECRET COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING. War has come to Melengar and once more Royce and Hadrian are hired to make a desperate gamble and form an alliance with the... Continue Reading →
The Dark Side by Anthony O’Neill – Review
Published: June 28, 2016 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 400 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon. Purgatory is... Continue Reading →
Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan – Review
Published: November 23, 2011 Publisher: Orbit Genre: Fantasy Pages: 681 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: THEY KILLED THE KING. THEY PINNED IT ON TWO MEN. THEY CHOSE POORLY. There's no ancient evil to defeat or orphan destined for greatness, just unlikely heroes and classic adventure. Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian... Continue Reading →
The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman – Review
Published: August 5, 2014 Publisher: Viking Genre: Fantasy Pages: 401 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose, he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic, but he can’t hide from his... Continue Reading →
The Heartless City by Andrea Berthot – Review
Published: August 17, 2015 Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Pages: 241 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: Henry Jekyll was a brilliant doctor, a passionate idealist who aimed to free mankind of selfishness and vice. He’s also the man who carelessly created a race of monsters. Once shared secretly among the good... Continue Reading →
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater – Review
Published: September 18, 2012 Publisher: Scholastic Press Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Pages: 416 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is... Continue Reading →
The Magician King by Lev Grossman – Review
Published: August 9, 2011 Publisher: Books on Tape Genre: Fantasy Length: 15 hours, 48 minutes Narrator: Mark Bramhall My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows... Continue Reading →
The Last Mortal Bond by Brian Staveley – Review
Published: March 15, 2016 Publisher: Tor Books Genre: Fantasy Pages: 640 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: The climactic third and final novel in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne The trilogy that began with The Emperor's Blades and continued in The Providence of Fire reaches its epic conclusion, as war engulfs the Annurian Empire. The... Continue Reading →
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett – Review
Published: January 26, 2016 Publisher: Broadway Books Genre: Fantasy Pages: 484 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: The city of Voortyashtan was once the domain of the goddess of death, war, and destruction, but now it’s little more than a ruin. General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this hellish place to... Continue Reading →
Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare – Review
Published: March 8, 2016 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Pages: 720 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel. It’s been... Continue Reading →
