Namely George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn. Ubisoft has a PC game scheduled for release in September called A Game of Thrones: Genesis. It’s a RTS starting approximately 700 years before the beginning of the book A Game of Thrones and leading up to that point. For more information, read this article or visit the official site. Progress has also been made on the Mistborn pen and paper RPG and there should […]
The Leaning Pile of Books: BEA Edition (Young Adult)
This is the first of two posts on books from Book Expo America (BEA). Instead of doing one post, I decided to split it into two with one focused on young adult (or in the case of the last book, middle grade – Amazon says it’s young adult but the ARC and Tor catalog both say middle grade so I’m trusting those instead). The other post will be on books that fall into the adult fantasy, science fiction, and horror […]
The Leaning Pile of Books
Hope everybody had a good week! I am back after being at Book Expo America (BEA) and the Book Blogger Convention. Because of this, I have a whole bunch of books I could add here, but I’ve decided to do books from BEA in a separate post. I’m also going to talk about some books in some of the fall catalogs I picked up while I was there in a separate post. So for now I’m just going to list […]
The Leaning Pile of Books
This week brought 3 review copies and 1 book bargain that I couldn’t resist! Fox & Phoenix by Beth Bernobich After reading Passion Play, I really wanted to read Beth Bernobich’s young adult book coming out this fall. So when the author contacting me about receiving a galley to review, accepting was a no-brainer! Now that I’ve had a chance to look through it, I’m looking forward to it even more. It sounds really good, and I loved the opening […]
Guest Post by Barbara Chepaitis: The Ordinary Empath
This week I am pleased to be part of the Virtual Book Tour for Barbara Cheapaitis (also known as B. A. Chepaitis), author of The Fear Principle and the rest of the books in the Fear series featuring Jaguar Addams. Tomorrow I’ll have a review of The Fear Principle for you. For today’s post, Barbara shares some thoughts on empathy, an ability that is very important in the series. The Ordinary Empath In my novel The Fear Principle and the […]
Excerpt: Embassytown by China Mieville
Yesterday Embassytown, the latest book by China Mieville, was released, and Tor.com posted an excerpt. I’ve read the first 60 pages or so of this book, which is what I am reading now, and it’s very interesting so far. About Embassytown:
