Scott Lynch, previously dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, freelance writer, and volunteer firefighter, is the author of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence series of books and a volunteer firefighter. The author, hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota, currently resides in Massachusetts with his wife and fellow author, Elizabeth Bear. Lynch, dubbing himself a …
With V.E. Schwab’s A Conjuring of Light, the doors between Londons and her Darker Shades of Magic trilogy comes to a close. In it, the characters find themselves on the frontlines of a major crisis that will test their relationships and the extent of their powers. The first book in the series, A Darker Shade …
Well! Waking Gods certainly doesn’t waste any time, I’ll tell you that much. Despite taking place about ten years after the first book (Sleeping Giants), everything is as urgent and immediate as ever. Global cooperation is tenuous; scientific advancement is not as far along as anyone would like; and another giant robot shows up in …
While it’s not necessary to read This Raging Light to be drawn into But Then I Came Back, this book is a close companion to Estelle Laure’s debut, although very different in tone. If you’ve read it, you already know what the prologue tells you—that Eden Jones, the cool girl in a cool leather jacket, …
I’m trying to imagine being the agent getting this pitch: “A teenage girl who lives in futuristic Versailles wants to escape this corporation-run Baroque world, but has to sell drugs to do it.” Is there any way you don’t pounce on that? I mean, they’re correctly billing it as “Breaking Bad via Marie-Antoinette.” Designer drugs! …
Miss Anna Arden is Barren. And how does an unmarried teenager in Victorian England know such a thing? Well, she’s not barren in the reproductive sense. This is much worse. In the world of Blood Rose Rebellion, Barren women can’t do magic, which is the only proof of a noble’s heritage and worthiness. Only those …
I read the first chapter of A Crown of Wishes and immediately had to check twitter. Sure enough, Roshani Chokshi and Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval, follow each other. Did they also edit each others’ introductory chapters? Because both begin with a mysterious invitation to a mysterious game run by a dangerous and magical individual. …
I was astonished when I picked up The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon, the third installment in the Bone Season septet. It’s only 350 pages, shorter than both previous volumes by more than a hundred pages. Most series this long (I believe this one is planned for seven volumes, a la GRRM) succumb to bloat …
If you have any basic knowledge of Norse Mythology and then picked a Neil Gaiman novel out of a hat, it is probable you’ll discover the author’s love for it strewn about in his many references both obvious and subtle. It’s no surprise that he would eventually be more direct and write his own take …
The Signalman is waiting. The cultists are waiting. Time divides them, and a short, terrible burst of violence, but that’s not very much, in the scheme of this universe. They all want to know what happened–what is happening–in the desert, but only the Signalman knows enough to be afraid. Something the cultists will only learn …