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The Book Of M by Peng Shepherd One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.… Continue reading Review: The Book Of M by Peng Shepherd
City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trades she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, and a mysterious gift for healing—are all tricks, both… Continue reading Review: City Of Brass by S A Chakraborty
Blackwing by Ed McDonald Hope, reason, humanity: the Misery breaks them all. Under its cracked and wailing sky, the Misery is a vast and blighted expanse, the arcane remnant of a devastating war with the immortals known as the Deep Kings. The war ended nearly a century ago, and the enemy is kept at bay… Continue reading Review: Blackwing by Ed McDonald
Not So Much, Said The Cat by Michael Swanwick Amazon Michael Swanwick takes us on a whirlwind journey across the globe and across time and space, where magic and science exist in possibilities that are not of this world. These tales are intimate in their telling, galactic in their scope, and delightfully sesquipedalian in their… Continue reading Review: Not So Much, Said The Cat by Michael Swanwick
I've been looking forward to reading Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. All of the book bloggers, and booktubers, have been talking about it so highly, and as I picked it up to read I began to worry it wouldn't live up to my expectations. I needn't have worried. I really enjoyed this book! The world… Continue reading Review: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman Published: April 2013 Amazon Book Depository Back of the book blurb: After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island,… Continue reading Book Review: The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman