Given to the Sea Review: Fathomless Weight
Even though Mindy McGinnis is an accomplished author, this feels very much like a first book. I suppose it's because Given to the Sea is her first foray into fantasy, a genre divide that…
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China Miéville’s The City and The City Coming To Television
BBC Two is set to adapt China Miéville's The City & The City into a four-part series written by Tony Grisoni whose screen credits include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Young Pope (for all you Pope Zone…
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Killing Gravity Review: Aiming to Misbehave
Killing Gravity is a novella by Corey J. White that is hopefully the first in a series featuring Mars, a void witch, space witch, a living psychic weapon. She and her...pet...a creature named Seven,…
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City of Miracles: Immaculate Conclusion
There was never going to be a question of whether City of Miracles, the final installment* of the Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett, was good. Of course it was going to be…
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GeeklyGuide to Authors – Scott Lynch
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,…
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Review: A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
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…
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Waking Gods Review: Rise and Shine
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…
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But Then I Came Back Review: Eden is Burning
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…
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Glitter Review: All That Glitters Is…Drugs
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…
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Blood Rose Rebellion: Hungarian Uprising
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…
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