“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: Proxy Author: Alex London Genre: Dystopia, Science Ficiton, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Philomel Publication Date: June 2013 Hardcover: 384 Pages Knox was born into one of the City’s wealthiest families. A Patron, he has everything a boy…
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! If you’re in the USA, I hope you’re ready for a nice short work week! (I know I am…) Without further ado, let’s get down to business, shall we? Giveaway Winners: The winner of…
“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…
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana looks back at 2013 and talks about some of the best (and some of the most disappointing ) SFF books so far: Go HERE to read the whole…
Hello everyone! Today we are happy to host a book trailer reveal for the upcoming YA mystery/suspense novel This is W.A.R. by Lisa and Laura Roecker. About The Book This is not a story of forgiveness… The mystery of…
Title: Absent Author: Katie Williams Genre: Ghosts, Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Chronicle Books Publication date: May 21st 2013 Hardcover: 184 pages When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound…
Hello everyone! Today we are happy to be a part of the blog tour for Proxy by Alex London. Here to talk about the characters and relationships in this book, particularly the relationship between main characters Knox and Syd,…
Old School Wednesdays Readalong: Angel with the Sword by C.J. Cherryh
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
The results for our July Old School Wednesdays Readalong are in! After 166 votes, the book we will be reading is: Archer’s Goon by Diana Wynne Jones The trouble started when Howard Sykes came home from school and found…


















