Today I’m delighted to welcome Danya! She’s a librarian and a speculative fiction fan who writes book reviews on her excellent website, Fine Print. I really enjoy reading her thoughts on books and appreciate the way she dissects the books she reads—plus she has fantastic taste, as you can see from her coverage of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, The Midnight Queen by Sylvia Izzo Hunter, and Monstress Volume One by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana […]

Bitterblue is the third novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cashore, whose previous two young adult fantasies impressed quite a few readers. Like its predecessors, Bitterblue is set in the Graceling Realm. It’s a sequel to Graceling that takes place 8 years later with a different protagonist, and Fire is a companion to both that takes place before Graceling and has both a different location and a different protagonist. While I don’t think it matters if Graceling or […]

Courtesy of Penguin, I have 2 copies of Bitterblue, the latest Graceling Realms book by Kristin Cashore, to give away today! Bitterblue takes place 8 years after the end of Graceling, and it’s been a very eagerly anticipated book for fans of both that novel and its companion Fire – two great books I really enjoyed! About Bitterblue: Bitterblue is the long-awaited companion to New York Times bestsellers Graceling and Fire. Eight years after Graceling, Bitterblue is now queen of […]

This was a great week for books – 2 ARCs and 2 finished review copies showed up unexpectedly, including an ARC of one of my very most anticipated books of the year. On the reviewing front, it was a bit quiet last week because my home was in complete chaos due to the construction of a new bookshelf in the bedroom. Part of my bedroom was in the living room and it was such a mess I found it hard […]

Instead of writing one huge post of all the books I’m looking forward to in 2012, I decided to highlight some of these books in their own posts throughout the rest of this year. That way I can include as much information as I want about each one without it being an 8-mile long post and can just compile a list of links to these posts at the end of the year. This is a companion book that goes with […]

Today I saw a lot of interesting SFF book related news and thought I’d share it with you. Publisher’s Weekly has an article today about Bitterblue, the forthcoming novel from Kristin Cashore that is connected to her novels Graceling and Fire. There’s now a cover and a release date – May 2012. I enjoyed Graceling and I LOVED Fire, so I’m excited to see it will be coming out next year! Jacqueline Carey posted an excerpt from Saints Astray, the […]