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Published: September 8, 2015 Publisher: Orbit Series: The First Law #2 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 515 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s... Continue Reading →
Published: February 12, 2019 Publisher: Berkley Series: Stand alone Genre: Fantasy Pages: 416 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: A sumptuously magical, brand new take on a tale as old as time—read the Beast's side of the story at long... Continue Reading →
Published: February 26, 2019 Publisher: Orbit Books Series: Untitled #1 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 432 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast... Continue Reading →
Published: November 6, 2018 Publisher: Orbit Books Series: Stand alone Genre: Horror, Thriller Pages: 512 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: SHE LOOKS LIKE ME. SHE SOUNDS LIKE ME. NOW SHE'S TRYING TO TAKE MY PLACE. Liz Kendall wouldn't hurt... Continue Reading →
Published: October 1, 2008 Publisher: Orbit Genre: Fantasy Pages: 645 (Mass Market) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: From New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks... For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's... Continue Reading →
Published: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Flatiron Books Genre: Fiction Pages: 256 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: A debut novel in stories that follows one woman's life from age 16 to 60, and what happens when certain celebrities—Neil Young, Meryl Streep, John Updike, Taylor Swift, Karl Ove Knausgaard—start turning up in her private life, at the... Continue Reading →
Published: October 4, 2016 Publisher: Regan Arts Genre: Fantasy Pages: 304 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: M is a drifter with a sharp tongue, few scruples, and limited magical ability, who would prefer drinking artisanal beer to involving himself in the politics of the city. Alas, in the infinite nexus of the universe which... Continue Reading →
Published: April 2, 2013 Publisher: Roc Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction Pages: 656 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with... Continue Reading →
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 →
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