The giveaway winners for Containment by Christian Cantrell have been selected and contacted. The winners are: Elise Ben Renee Congratulations and I hope you each enjoy the book! The 2012 Hugo Award winners were announced Sunday night. Best Novel went to Among Others by Jo Walton and Game of Thrones took Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. I was especially pleased to see the wonderful blog SF Signal won Best Fanzine. A complete list of the winners along with a few […]
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. 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. Last week there were no books […]
Review of The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells
The Serpent Sea is the second book in The Books of the Raksura series by Martha Wells, following The Cloud Roads. The third book, The Siren Depths, is scheduled for release in December 2012. Warning: Since this is the second book in a series, there may be spoilers for the first book in this review. If you are interested in reading about the first book in this series, here is my review of The Cloud Roads (one of my favorite […]
Abandoned Books: Indigo Eyes by Fel Kian
This is not technically a review since I did not finish Indigo Eyes, a dark fantasy novel by Fel Kian. It is the author’s first novel, and as far as I know, it is a stand alone. I always feel kind of badly about writing posts about books I liked so little I didn’t even finish them, but I try to write them anyway since I find these types of posts useful when other people write them. After all, not […]
Besieged Giveaway Winner
The giveaway for one copy of Besieged by Rowena Cory Daniells is now over, and a winner has been randomly selected. The winner is: Dovile Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to kristen (at) fantasybookcafe (dot) com so the book can be sent to you. Update: I never heard back from the winner so I drew a new winner from the entries. Congratulations, SueCCCP! For those of you who didn’t win, you can still sign up to try to win […]
