At the end of the day, Zeroes was an ok read – with really great, fun parts but underwhelming on the whole. Given the premise and the authors involved, I am afraid I was expecting a lot more. Title:…
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Old School Wednesdays Book Review: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters #1)
Fun midnight-hour shenanigans from Scott Westerfeld–yes, please. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smugglers 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…
Title: Stupid Perfect World Author: Scott Westerfeld Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult, Novella Publisher: Harper Teen Impulse Publication Date: December 2012 Ebook: 55 Pages In this future-set novella by bestselling author Scott Westerfeld, Kieran Black lives in a “perfect”…
Welcome everyone, to The Book Smugglers’ Nebula Readathon 2011! In honor of the annual Nebula Awards, we will be hosting an interwebs readathon, in which we will attempt to read all of the titles on the Best Novel and…
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Guest Author & Giveaway: Scott Westerfeld on the Leviathan Series
“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 reign so they can go wild…
Title: Behemoth Author: Scott Westerfeld Genre: Steampunk/ YA Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK/ Simon & Schuster Children (US) Publication Date: October 1st 2010 (UK)/ October 5th 2010 (US) Hardcover: 496 pages Stand alone or series: Book two in the…
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Book Review & Giveaway: Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier
Title: Zombies vs. Unicorns Authors: Team Unicorn edited by Holly Black – Kathleen Duey, Meg Cabot, Garth Nix, Margo Lanagan, Naomi Novik & Diana Peterfreund; Team Zombie edited by Justine Larbalestier – Libba Bray, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Cassandra Clare,…
Title: Leviathan Author: Scott Westerfeld / Illustrations by Keith Thompson Genre: YA (Steampunk) Publisher:Simon and Schuster’s Children/Simon Pulse Publishing Date: 1 Oct 2009/ 6 Oct 2009 Hardcover: 448 pages Stand Alone or series: First in a planned trilogy Summary:…
Howdy fellows! How is everybody this Sunday? Good? Good. Getting straight down to business then. Giveaway winners: The two winners of the Ariel prize packs are: Kate (comment #54) Jenny N (comment #34) Congratulations! Please send us your snail…
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WHY HAVEN’T I READ THESE BOOKS?!: The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
Today, we bring you two reviews for pretty well-known books that for some reason we hadn’t picked up yet. Before the onslaughts of “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU HAVEN’T READ THAT?!” begin, let us just offer our profuse apologies. We…
