Reviews
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Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks
“The quest for the missing Elfstones has gone badly awry. The Druid Order has been decimated, and its surviving leader and her followers are trapped inside the Forbidding—the hellish dimension that imprisons the…
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Review: Smudge’s Mark, by Claudia Osmond
“With a shaky hand, I laid the brass key on the paper, flat side down, and slid it over the top of the sketch. It fit the shape exactly. Then the line circling…
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Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines : Review
Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes. Vigilantes. Crusaders for justice, using their superhuman abilites to make Los Angeles a better place. Then the plague of living death spread…
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Children of No One by Nicole Cushing : Review
Sadism, nihilism, poverty, wealth, screams, whimpers, sanity and madness collide in Nowhere, Indiana For Thomas Krieg, Nowhere is a miles-long, pitch-black underground maze in which he’s imprisoned dozens of boys for the…
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Book of the Day, Week 4 & 5
Every day on Facebook we’ll be posting a short description of novels that may not be very well-known. We forgot to post last week’s compilation of our Books of the Day, so this week’s…
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Review: Lotto’s Super-Awesome Unbelievable Park Adventure, by Jan Ellen Ferrigan
Fantasy meets travelogue in an adventure novel for middle grade readers. Eleven-year-old foster kid Lotto Lewis is gifted, but he wants to be cool and watch more TV. Lotto also wishes that his…
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The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett : Review
This post may contain slight spoilers for earlier books. Read my review of the first novel, The Warded Man here. On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the…
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Review: Switch, by Tish Cohen
Good girl Andrea Birch is an honour-roll lifer — a Stanford-bound, mildly neurotic, high-strung twelfth-grader who just wants a bit more privacy. Oh, and perhaps a bit more of a social life. Or…
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Adventure Hunters by Cody L. Martin – Review
Artorius, Regina, and Lisa, three adventurers explore ruins and ancient buildings looking for treasures. When they come across a collection of war machines, they race to find the Lambda Driver, the key to…
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Review: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atwater
Mr. Popper is a humble house painter living in Stillwater who dreams of faraway places like the South Pole. When an explorer responds to his letter by sending him a penguin named Captain…
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Season of the Wolf by Jeffrey J. Mariotte : Review
When Alex Converse — rich, aspiring film-maker — arrives in Silver Gap, Colorado to make an environmentally themed documentary, he and his team get more than they bargained for when wolves start attacking; people…
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City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte
“Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it’s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle…
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Parlor Games by Maryka Biaggio : Review
Meet Baroness May Dugas, the most dangerous woman in the world. Standing trial for extortion, the story of May Dugas unfolds as she tells her version of the events which lead her to…
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The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson : Review
When the Emperor’s mind is damaged after an assassination attempt, Shai — an imprisoned Forger who has been sentenced to execution must create a Forgery of his soul within 100 days — a…
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Review: Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale
It was a lovely idea and Miri wished she could believe it, but she knew the lowlanders would never allow a crown to sit on a mountain girl’s head. High on the slopes…
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Oath of Servitude by C.E. Wilson : Review and Interview!
This is the story of Teague and Cailin, two teenagers who have been brought together by fate. Teague, a human, struggles to come to terms with the consequences of a recent accident that…
