The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch – review
Publisher’s Description: Having pulled off the greatest heist of their career, Locke and his trusted partner in thievery, Jean, have escaped with a tidy fortune. But Locke’s body is paying the price....
View ArticleTempt the Stars by Karen Chance – review
I have been following the Cassandra Palmer series since the first book, Touch the Dark, came out in 2006. I was immediately captured by the unique vibe of the story – dark, yet with a walloping sense...
View ArticleJinnrise by Sohaib Awan – review
Trying situations often form unlikely allies. In Jinnrise by Sohaib Awan, humans must align with a much maligned group of mythological beings to save the world from an alien invasion. It’s a plot that...
View ArticleA Study in Darkness by Emma Jane Holloway – review
Publisher’s Description: When a bomb goes off at 221B Baker Street, Evelina Cooper is thrown into her Uncle Sherlock’s world of mystery and murder. But just when she thought it was safe to return to...
View ArticleThe Sultan of Byzantium by Selcuk Altun – review
At its heart, The Sultan of Byzantium is a quest novel. There’s a hero with a mysterious heritage, a secret society, and journeys to far-flung locations in order to locate the keys to unlocking a...
View ArticleThe Palace Job by Patrick Weekes – review
Publisher’s Description: Loch is seeking revenge. It would help if she wasn’t in jail. The plan: to steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but now is in the hands of the...
View ArticleThe Spider by Jennifer Estep – review
Last time we left Gin Blanco, Ashland’s most notorious assassin, she was rescuing a friend from being kidnapped in Heart of Venom, the ninth book in Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassin series. Book...
View ArticleA Study in Ashes by Emma Jane Holloway – review
Publisher’s Description: As part of her devil’s bargain with the industrial steam barons, Evelina Cooper is finally enrolled in the Ladies’ College of London. However, she’s attending as the Gold...
View ArticleA Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz – review
Any fantasy book that features an adventure should be fun and exciting. Some of them are, some of them just end up mired in a web of unresolved side plots and forgotten characters. Trying to find the...
View ArticleRomulus Buckle and the Engines of War by Richard Ellis Preston Jr. – review
Publisher’s Description: The frozen wasteland of Snow World – known as Southern California before an alien invasion decimated civilization – is home to warring steampunk clans. Crankshafts, Imperials,...
View ArticleHe Drank, and Saw the Spider by Alex Bledsoe – review
Publisher’s Description: After he fails to save a stranger from being mauled to death by a bear, a young mercenary is saddled with the baby girl the man died to protect. He leaves her with a kindly...
View ArticleTwo Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone – audiobook review
Publisher’s Description: A novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc –...
View ArticlePeacemaker by K.A. Stewart – review
Publisher’s Description: Caleb Marcus is a Peacemaker, a roving lawman tasked with maintaining the peace and bringing control to magic users on the frontier. A Peacemaker isn’t supposed to take a...
View ArticleOphelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee – review
Publisher’s Description: Unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard doesn’t believe in anything that can’t be proven by science. She and her sister Alice are still grieving for their dead...
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...
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 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 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 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 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,...
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