Published: September 15, 2020 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Series: Standalone Genre: Horror Pages: 336 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.0/5.0 Synopsis: From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores themes of mental illness, rage, and grief, twisted with spine-chilling elements of Stephen King and Agatha Christie.Following her father's... Continue Reading →
Call of the Bone Ships by R.J. Barker – Review
Published: November 24, 2020 Publisher: Orbit Books Series: The Tide Child #2 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 528 (Paperback) My Rating: 5.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: A brilliantly imagined saga of honour, glory and warfare, Call of the Bone Ships is the captivating epic... Continue Reading →
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton – Review
Published: October 6, 2020 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Series: Standalone Genre: Mystery Pages: 463 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist.It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he... Continue Reading →
People of the City by Marshall Ryan Maresca – Review
Published: October 27, 2020 Publisher: DAW Books Series: Maradaine Elite #3 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 404 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The third and final novel in the Maradaine Elite series blends fast-paced high fantasy and political intrigue, bringing together... Continue Reading →
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab – Review
Published: October 6, 2020 Publisher: Tor Books Series: Standalone Genre: Fantasy Pages: 489 (Hardcover) My Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she... Continue Reading →
How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge by K. Eason – Review
Published: October 27, 2020 Publisher: DAW Books Series: The Thorn Chronicles #2 Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 416 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her to change the multiverse in the second... Continue Reading →
Wine Dark Deep by R. Peter Keith – Review
Published: October 12, 2020 Publisher: Uphill Downhill Press Series: Wine Dark Deep #1 Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 149 (ebook) My Rating: 1.5/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: A hard science-fiction space opera.The First Book in the Epic Odyssey of the Spaceship Ulysses and... Continue Reading →
A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe – Review
Published: October 13, 2020 Publisher: Wednesday Books Series: Standalone Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Pages: 352 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.5/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them... Continue Reading →
The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey – Review
Published: September 17, 2020 Publisher: Orbit Books Series: Rampart Trilogy #2 Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 445 (Paperback) My Rating: 3.0/5.0 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The Trials of Koli is the second novel in M R. Carey’s breathtakingly original Rampart trilogy, set in... Continue Reading →
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik – Review
Published: September 29, 2020 Publisher: Del Rey Books Series: The Scholomance #1 Genre: Fantasy Pages: 336 (Hardcover) My Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly.A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins... Continue Reading →
