Title: There Is No Dog Author: Meg Rosoff Genre: Speculative Fiction Publisher: Puffin books Publication date: September 1st 2011 Hardcover: 256 pages Meet your unforgettable protagonist: God, who, as it turns out, is a 19-year-old boy living in the…
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Title: The Gray Wolf Throne Author: Cinda Williams Chima Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Hyperion (Disney) Publication date: August 2011 Hardcover: 528 pages Han Alister thought he had already lost everyone he loved. But when he finds his friend…
Joint Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern Genre: Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Doubleday (Random House US)/ Harvill Secker (UK) Publication date: September 2011 Hardcover: 387 pages The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is…
Title: This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein Author: Kenneth Oppel Genre: Speculative Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication date: August 2011 Hardcover: 304 pages Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are…
Title: A Long Long Sleep Author: Anna Sheehan Genre: Speculative Fiction/Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fairy Tale Retelling, Young Adult Publisher: Candlewick (US)/Gollancz (UK) Publication date: August 2011 (US & UK) Hardcover: 352 pages Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two…
Title: A Fine and Private Place Author: Peter S. Beagle Genre: Speculative Fiction (Magic Realism) / Romance Publisher: Tachyon Publications Publication date: This edition, 1997. (First published in 1960) Paperback: 296 pages For nineteen years, Jonathan Rebeck has hidden…
Book Review (& Giveaway): Naamah’s Blessing by Jacqueline Carey
Title: Naamah’s Blessing Author: Jacqueline Carey Genre: Fantasy, Alternate History Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: June 2011 Hardcover: 624 Pages Returning to Terre d’Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of…
Title: One Crazy Summer Author: Rita Williams-Garcia Genre: Historical MG (Mid-sixties) Publisher: Amistad Publication Date: January 2010 Hardcover: 218 pages Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern,…
Title: Warm Bodies Author: Isaac Marion Genre: Speculative Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombies, Horror, Romance Publisher: Atria Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 256 Pages R is a young man with an existential crisis–he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America…
Title: Blackout/All Clear Author: Connie Willis Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Spectra Publication date: February / October 2010 Hardcover: 1168 pages altogether xford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to…