Smugglivus 2012
Every year around this time, Ana and Thea of one of my favorite blogs, The Book Smugglers, host Smugglivus. I look forward to it every year; they get a lot of great author and blogger guests and I love their own end of the year posts, too! Today I’m over there discussing some of my favorite books I’ve read this year and the books coming out next year that I’m most excited about. I definitely recommend checking out some of […]
Special Edition of Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
On December 31, a trade paperback/ebook special edition of Magic Bites, the first Kate Daniels book by Ilona Andrews will be released. This includes FAQs about the world of Kate Daniels, information on characters and factions, a faction quiz, some scenes from Curran’s point of view, and the prequel story “A Questionable Client” (about Kate and Saiman’s first meeting). It also has the best cover of any in the entire series, in my opinion. This is the start to one […]
The Leaning Pile of Books
The Leaning Pile of Books is a feature where I talk about books I got over the last week – old or new, bought or received for review consideration. Since I hope you will find new books you’re interested in reading in these posts, I try to be as informative as possible. If I can find them, links to excerpts, author’s websites, and places where you can find more information on the book are included. This was a pretty big […]
Review of The Siren Depths by Martha Wells
The Siren Depths is the third volume in The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells, whose work has been nominated for the Nebula Award. This science fiction/fantasy series has become one of my favorite recent book discoveries, both for its original setting of the Three Worlds and its endearing characters. For this reason, I was glad to hear that Martha Wells will be writing four novellas set in the same world that will be published as ebooks. At least the […]
Guest Post: It’s a Mad Mad Mad Science by Lev AC Rosen
Today I’m happy to share a guest post about mad scientists by Lev AC Rosen! His debut novel, All Men of Genius, was one of my favorite books I read last year (my review). I was quite drawn to the idea of this steampunk novel inspired by both William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and it ended up being just as wonderful as it sounded. The story mainly follows Violet, a young woman with an extraordinary gift for […]
