Fool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb – review
In Fool’s Assassin, Robin Hobb returns to the story of FitzChivalry Farseer, the character that started the Farseer Trilogy nearly two decades ago. While we watched Fitz grow up and become the King’s...
View ArticleShattering the Ley by Joshua Palmatier – review
Shattering the Ley is the first book in a promising new series by Joshua Palmatier. While the cover of this hardcover edition tells us immediately that this is A Fantasy Novel, the setting blends magic...
View ArticleThe Fatal Tree by Stephen R. Lawhead – review
Science fiction and fantasy are filled with stories of all that can go wrong with time-travel. Once human beings gain the ability to travel into the past (or future), they immediately start searching...
View ArticleThe Wicked by Douglas Nicholas – review
While The Wicked is a sequel to Douglas Nicholas’ debut novel, Something Red, it is easily read as a stand-alone story. Set in the north of England in the thirteenth century, this work of historic...
View ArticleThe Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry – review
Editor’s note: This book is scheduled to be published September 23, 2014. Publisher’s Description: The students of St. Etheldreda’s School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible...
View ArticleThe Girl and the Clockwork Cat by Nikki McCormack – review
Publisher’s Description: Feisty teenage thief Maeko and her maybe-more-than-friend Chaff have scraped out an existence in Victorian London’s gritty streets, but after a near-disastrous heist leads her...
View ArticleJani and the Greater Game by Eric Brown – Review
P ublisher’s Description: Jani and the Greater Game is the first book in a rip-roaring, spice-laden, steampunk action adventure series set in India and featuring a heroine who subverts all the...
View ArticleSkin Game by Jim Butcher – review
Editor’s note - this review of Skin Game (Book 15 of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher) is based on the audiobook version, narrated by James Marsters. ** SPOILER ALERT: If you have been reading The...
View ArticleCrown of Renewal by Elizabeth Moon – Review
Publisher’s Description: Eight kingdoms in danger, an enemy that cannot die… Count Jed Drin has received a grisly message. His son, Filis, is dead, brutally killed by Alured the Black – the first move...
View ArticleDeadly Curiosities by Gail Z. Martin – Review
Publisher’s Description: Cassidy Kincaide owns Trifles & Folly, an antique/curio store and high-end pawn shop in Charleston, South Carolina, that is more than what it seems. Dangerous magical and...
View ArticleThe Oversight by Charlie Fletcher – Review
Publisher’s Description: Only five still guard the borders between the worlds. Only five hold back what waits on the other side. Once the Oversight, the secret society that policed the lines between...
View ArticleThe Ophelia Prophecy by Sharon Lynn Fisher – review
In her second book, author Sharon Lynn Fisher has created a variation on a post-apocalyptic world as a setting for a science fiction romance. In The Ophelia Prophecy, rampant genetic engineering led to...
View ArticleThe Foundry’s Edge (First Book of Ore) by Cam Baity and Benny Zelcowicz – Review
Publisher’s Description: Two kids on a rescue mission. A mysterious realm of living metal. One secret that will change the world. For Phoebe Plumm, life in affluent Meridian revolves around trading...
View ArticleThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison – Review
Publisher’s Description: The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father...
View ArticleShards of Time by Lynn Flewelling – Review
Publisher’s Description: The governor of the sacred island of Korous and his mistress have been killed inside a locked and guarded room. The sole witnesses to the crime—guards who broke down the doors,...
View ArticleMarrow’s Pit by Keith Deininger – Review
Publisher’s Description: Built to encompass the entire range of lifeless mountains, it had always, relentlessly, clanked on and on. Within, vast halls and endless corridors were filled with the sounds...
View ArticleTesla’s Attic by Neal Shusterman – review
Publisher’s Description: Tesla’s Attic is the first book in a brilliantly imagined and hilariously written trilogy that combines science, magic, intrigue, and just plain weirdness, about four kids who...
View ArticleBookspot’s Own – PLMII offers free books at Amazon.com (Updated)
Update – 2/12/2014 So the critics of the book entitled : Robin Fairborn, The Galdafax Gems, were proven wrong yesterday. I was told by several literary agents that this book was not marketable and...
View ArticleSailor Twain, Or The Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel – review
Typically, when one thinks of mermaids, one thinks of the sailors on long journeys across open oceans and exotic ports of call. The only mermaid that comes to mind in conjunction with the United...
View ArticleLondon Falling by Paul Cornell – review
Cops are supposed to be rational, critical thinkers. In order to protect us, they’re supposed to be far above flights of fancy. They can certainly be very much in tune with their instincts, but...
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