Debut Review: Shadow Bound

Shadow Bound by Erin Kellison Dorchester Publishing

Mass Market Paperback – 7.99

Imagine if your father was what the world fears most. Imagine if your father was Death.

Talia O’Brien doesn’t have to imagine in Erin Kellison’s Shadow Bound. Hunted by inhuman monsters all her life with no knowledge of why, regarded strangely [...]

Debut Review: Shades of Milk and Honey

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Tor Books

Hardcover, provided by Tor books (along with an advance ARC copy) — thank you!

While this will mostly be a positive review, I had one major problem with Shades of Milk and Honey that threatened to destroy my enjoyment of it altogether. [...]

Debut Review: Redemption in Indigo

Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord Small Beer Press Trade Paperback – $16

I have often said that I love novels that can take me to a different time, or a different place, or both. Redemption in Indigo does that and more–it takes me to a different culture. These are the best of [...]

Review: The Alchemy of Stone

The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia Prime Books Trade Paperback – $14.95

Reviewed by Superwench83

The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia introduces us to a world where the class lines are set in stone–in some cases literally. There are the Alchemists, whose draughts can heal and hurt; the Mechanics, whose engineering [...]

Review: Bewitched and Betrayed

Bewitched and Betrayed by Lisa Shearin Ace Books – $7.99

Reviewed by Superwench83.

Any novel that begins with the words, “I was being chased by a pissed-off naked guy with a knife,” is a hook for me. And in typical Lisa Shearin style, Bewitched and Betrayed continues to hook the reader beyond [...]

Review: The Mall of Cthulhu

The Mall of Cthulhu by Seamus Cooper (on Twitter) Night Shade Books – 13.95

The Mall of Cthulhu by Seamus Cooper is the funniest book I’ve read since Kimberly Frost’s Barely Bewitched. I laughed so hard that at one point, I thought I was getting chest pains. It was a muscle cramp, but [...]

Debut Graduate: The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber Paperback = 6.99 Dorchester

With radiant, snow-white skin and hair, Percy Parker was a beacon for Fate. True love had found her, in the tempestuous form of Professor Alexi Rychman. But her mythic destiny was not complete. Accompanying the ghosts with which [...]

Debut Review – Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

Three Days to Dead Kelly Meding (website) Dell Mass market paperback, $7.99

Reviewed by Raven

A murdered woman wakes up in the morgue, in a stranger’s body, with three days to figure out who killed her and why. After those three days are up, she’ll be dead for good. With that plot, I [...]

Review: Dream of the Dragon Pool: A Daoist Quest

Dream of the Dragon Pool: A Daoist Quest Albert A. Dalia Pleasure Boat Studio

Reviewed by Superwench83

Excerpt from author’s blurb:

Forced by the emperor’s exile order, Li Bo travels up the great Yangtze River toward certain death in distant Burma/Myanmar. Yet Li, not so concerned by his imminent death, regards his trip [...]

Debut Review – Soulless by Gail Carriger

Soulless By Gail Carriger (website) Orbit Mass market paperback, $7.99

Reviewed by Raven

Soulless was a fun novel. Mix Victorian England with vampires and werewolves and a coy sense of humor, and this book is the result. I think I can safely recommend it for fans of urban fantasy and Jane Austen (I [...]

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