SJardine
Posts by SJardine.
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The House of Daniel by Harry Turtledove : Review
A picaresque tale of minor league baseball—in an alternate Great Depression America full of wild magic. Since the Big Bubble popped in 1929, life in the United States hasn’t been the same. Hotshot…
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Alcatraz Versus The Knights of Crystallia by Brandon Sanderson : Review
When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, the Smedry home base, Alcatraz is shocked to see that he is, in fact, a legend. When he…
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Maestro: Homecoming, Book II by R.A. Salvatore : Review
Something terrible, unspeakable, immense, has come to Menzoberranzan and is leaving death and destruction in its wake. The primordial of Gauntlgrym stirs, sending Cattie-brie and Gromph to Luskan, and the ruins of the…
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Burned: An Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka : Review
Diviner Alex Verus finally made one too many enemies on the Council of Mages, and now one of them is angry enough to have him executed. Fighting for his life is nothing new,…
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The Pirates of Pacta Servanda (The Pillars of Reality #4) by Jack Campbell
The world feels oddly strained, like a line pulled too taunt and apt to snap, smashing everything in its path.” Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain have survived every attempt to stop them,…
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The Lyre Thief by Jennifer Fallon : Review
Her Serene Highness, Rakaia, Princess of Fardohnya, is off to Hythria, where her eldest sister is now the High Princess, to find herself a husband, and escape the inevitable bloodbath in the harem…
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Alcatraz VS The Evil Librarians: The Scrivener’s Bones (Alcatraz #2) by Brandon Sanderson : Review
In this second Alcatraz adventure, Alcatraz finds himself on a mission to meet Grandpa Smedry when he gets swept up by a flying glass dragon filled with his unusual and mouthy Smedry cohorts.…
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Alcatraz VS The Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson : Review
A hero with an incredible talent…for breaking things. A life-or-death mission…to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network…the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn’t seem destined for anything…
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Revisionary by Jim C. Hines : Review
When Isaac Vainio helped to reveal magic to the world, he dreamed of a new millennium of magical prosperity. One year later, things aren’t going quite as he’d hoped. A newly-formed magical organization…
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Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson : Review
With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a…
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Only the Stones Survive by Morgan Llywelyn : Review
For centuries the Túatha Dé Danann lived in peace on an island where time flowed more slowly and the seasons were gentle–until that peace was shattered by the arrival of invaders. The Gaels,…
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The 15 SF&F Novels We’re Anticipating This Year!
Happy New Year! With the new year, comes new books! From January to June, these are the science fiction and fantasy book releases we’re looking forward to the most: [toggler title=”Bands of Mourning…
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Dragon Trials (Return of the Darkening Book One) : Review
High-born Agathea Flamma intends to bring honor to her family by following in her brothers’ footsteps and taking her rightful place as a Dragon Rider. With her only other option being marriage, Thea…
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Steamborn by Eric R. Asher : Review
Jacob, a tinker’s apprentice and sometime thief, has lived his entire life in the mountain city of Ancora, protected by the massive city walls. The towering barriers keep the Deadlands creatures at bay,…
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The Assassins of Altis by Jack Campbell : Review
Trapped within the dead city of Marandur, Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain must escape both merciless barbarians and the pitiless Imperial Legion. Beyond those dangers lie the mightiest and most unforgiving powers…
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Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein : Review
The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces…