Boy Nobody – Allen Zadoff

About the Book Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school, in a new town, under a new name, makes few friends and doesn’t stay long. Just long enough for someone in his new friend’s family to…

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Love Minus Eighty – Will McIntosh

About the Book Years in the future, dead women in cryogenic dating farms await rich, lonely suitors to resurrect them and take them home. LOVE MINUS EIGHTY follows interconnected lives touched by these dating farms. There’s Rob, who accidentally kills a jogger, then sells everything to visit her, seeking her forgiveness but instead falling in…

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Thieves’ Quarry – D.B. Jackson

About the Book Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, September 28, 1768 Autumn has come to New England, and with it a new threat to the city of Boston. British naval ships have sailed into Boston Harbor bearing over a thousand of His Majesty King George III’s soldiers. After a summer of rioting and political unrest,…

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An Aside | Books I’m Eyeing

I have recently rebooted my RSS feed, which is totally and absolutely making Mount TBR explode. I saw this feature over at Book Smugglers and it inspired me to do a similar feature of my own. Occasionally I’ll post the books that are looking at me. Maybe you guys can add to my list and…

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London Falling – Paul Cornell

About the Book The dark is rising . . . Detective Inspector James Quill is about to complete the drugs bust of his career. Then his prize suspect Rob Toshack is murdered in custody. Furious, Quill pursues the investigation, co-opting intelligence analyst Lisa Ross and undercover cops Costain and Sefton. But nothing about Toshack’s murder…

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A Well Deserved CONGRATULATIONS

I’ve been running this website for about three and a half years. In those three and a half years I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to meet and interact with some incredible authors, publishers, agents, PR gurus, fellow reviewers, and wonderful readers. I’ve found a vibrant and incredible internet community, which keeps me endlessly entertained and…

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The White Forest – Adam McOmber

About the Book Young Jane Silverlake lives with her father in a crumbling family estate on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Jane has a secret—an unexplainable gift that allows her to see the souls of man-made objects—and this talent isolates her from the outside world. Her greatest joy is wandering the wild heath with her…

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The Crown Tower – Michael J. Sullivan

About the Book TWO MEN WHO HATE EACH OTHER. ONE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION. A LEGEND IN THE MAKING. A warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Together they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest…

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Not A Review: Emperor of Thorns – Mark Lawrence

About the Book The path to the throne is broken – only the broken may walk it. *** To reach the throne requires that a man journey. Even a path paved with good intentions can lead to hell, and my intentions were never good. The Hundred converge for Congression to politic upon the corpse of…

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Thinking Through Type | Unique Magic Systems

I’ve recently started to ask a Bookworm Question of the Day on my Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes these questions die as soon as I ask them, and other times I get tons of interaction and lots of great discussion. Today was one of those days where lots of people participated. Due to the level of…

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