Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! Things from This Week: This week was absofreakinglutely bananas. In case you weren’t on the internets, here’s a quick roundup of the ridiculousness: our very own Book Smuggler Ana and Renay (of Lady Business…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
Title: Trading in Danger Author: Elizabeth Moon Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Del Rey Publication Date: September 2003 Paperback: 357 Pages Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck…
Picture Me Gone is a beautiful, thought-provoking book, exactly the type that Meg Rosoff is so good at writing. Unfortunately I am not going to be able to write the review like I meant today[1. Having the Week From…
As you probably know by now, Old School Wednesdays is a new weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when we were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and…
Title: Raven Flight Author: Juliet Marillier Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication Date: July 2013 Hardcover: 416 Pages Neryn has finally found the rebel group at Shadowfell, and now her task is to seek…
SFF in Conversation is a new monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is to create a safe…
This just now. Alongside Renay, I (Ana) have been accused of “despicable behavior” and of “bullying” on Twitter by fellow SFF bloggers @fantasybookcritic and @gavreads. Their accusation of bullying stems from the comments over on Renay’s Strange Horizons article…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
Title: Once We Were Author: Kat Zhang Genre: Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: September 2013 Hardcover: 352 Pages “I’m lucky just to be alive.” Eva was never supposed to have survived this long. As the…
