It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana revels in the awesomeness of Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear. Go HERE for the full scoop.…
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Joint Review: A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
“I’m not afraid of dying. But I am afraid of dying here.” She swept her hand over the room, the tavern, the city. “I’d rather die on an adventure than live standing still.” Title: A Darker Shade of Magic…
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…
“Everywhere you go, pain and misery seem to follow. Well, I’m done following along with it. I won’t be a part of your violence anymore. And I won’t let the children be infected by it either.” Title: Sweet Tooth:…
Announcing Speculative Fiction 2014: Meet the Contributors!
In which we unveil the contributors for the 2014 edition of an award-winning collection Speculative Fiction is a series that celebrates the best in online non-fiction – the top book reviews, essays and commentary of the year and we…
Hello everyone and a Happy Sunday to all! I’ve been ill the whole week with the Cold of Doom and it’s been awful but I am slowly recovering. Hope you are all well! Let’s get down to business. Giveaway…
“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 talks about Mira Grant’s new novella, Rolling in the Deep. It’s a novella of horror about terrifying mermaids and a ship lost at sea. It’s pretty great fun.…
Echo is a novel of great ambition, with four historical settings, different characters and stories in a planned symphony that doesn’t quite sound perfect when it all comes together in the end. Title: Echo Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan Genre:…
In which we take a break from the books, and dive into a television show for Old School Wednesday’s March event… The Middleman was a short-lived TV show with 12 episodes that aired in 2008 on ABC Family and…