East by Edith Pattou is a delightful re-imagining of the fairytale ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’. Rose is born into a large, poor family, to a superstitious ma. The family is starving, the farm failing, when a mysterious visitor approaches them and says he will give the family an improvement of their […]
Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel is a darkly magical re-imagining that fuses two great classics- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice– into a seamless narrative. A chance encounter between Mary Bennett and Victor Frankenstein sets in motion a series of relationships that will leave them both forever changed. Victor is travelling […]
Edison by Torben Kuhlmann follows Pete and the Professor as they decide to search for the missing treasure of Pete’s ancestor. Their investigation determines the location of the ship that sank carrying the treasure. Pete decides he is going to find a way to get the treasure. The Professor declines helping until he rescues Pete […]
Harbinger continues Conway’s Dragonrider Legacy series, splitting time between Jenna, and Reigh, as things really begin to heat up in the war against the Tibrans. Some time is spent with Reigh and Jaevid, setting up Reigh’s next parts, but the bulk follows Jenna. She and Phillip are captured, and Argonox has a proposal for Jenna. […]
The Devil’s Standoff by VS McGrath finds Hettie and her companions in Mexico, at the village of Villa del Punta. They’ve come at the behest of Walker Woodroffe, to return Diablo to its creator, Javier Punta. He wishes to unmake his deadly creation. But Punta is in a coma, and a vicious cryptid is stalking […]
Vol 2 of Marazano’s The Dream of the Butterfly continues the tale of Tutu in the spirit village she found herself lost in. With the help of her bumbling rabbit spy/guards, Tutu continues looking into the special butterfly the Emperor wants. A visit to the local library yields an unexpected find- a book all about […]
The Devil’s Revolver by VS McGrath throws us headlong into the world of Hettie Alabama. A world with magic and machine. All was right in Hettie’s life- as right as it could be with a sick sister- until the day she won a shooting contest, saved a man’s life, and saw her father kill a […]
The Storm Runner by JC Cervantes is part of the Rick Riordan Presents Series, this time focusing on Mayan mythology. Zane Obispo is a ‘freak’, as he puts it. He was born with one leg shorter than the other. He walks with a cane, and pronounced limp. Zane has been homeschooled, but now he’s headed […]
Monstrum is third in the Fourth Talisman series by Kat Ross. Darius and Nazafareen continue to search for the elemental talismans, accompanied by Herodotus and several of the Maenads. Their travels lead them to Tjanjin, and beyond. Meanwhile, among the Marakai Selk fleet, a young girl with a penchant for getting in trouble become the […]
Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milan is the first in the series by the same name. It follows several different, sometimes overlapping perspectives. During a ferocious battle at a river, which featured several of our main male protagonists- Karyl, Jaume, Falk, and Rob Korrigan- Voyvod Karyl is betrayed by his comrades and left for dead. To […]