Imagine that there are thousands of worlds in many different realities, and every time a person dies they wake up as themselves to live a new life, but on a different world. This is repeated over and over until the person eventually wakes in the City Unspoken, the only place where True Death can be
The Night Circus is the debut book by Erin Morgenstern; at this point it’s also the only book by Erin Morgenstern. She has some poetry and several smaller essays on her website, but for now this is her only novel. And while I’d like to see another book by this author, at this point I can’t
The Blood Guard by Carter Roy wasn’t anything like what I’d expected. The main character Ronan may be a teenager who’s stumbled across a world of swords and sorcery and automatic weapons, but this is not one of those stories where he turns out to be some kind of “chosen one” or demigod. Not even
What had once been rafters holding up a roof were now floor joists in Palmer’s house. Someone else’s house stood below theirs, long abandoned and unclaimed. Soon, his own home would be someone’s basement and this a sand-filled cellar. And so it went, sand piling up to the heavens and homes sinking toward hell. My
We’ve all run into it at one time or another. As a literary genre it’s pretty much inescapable. There are a few gems here and there, but the quality is generally middling-to-poor: words churned out by writers who might not excel at anything else. Sometimes we find one that appeals to us, or that we’ve
It’s Valentine’s Day! A night to hit the singles bar, snuggle up with ice cream and a movie and cry yourself to sleep, or call desperately for any available babysitter who is not going to double their price just because they can (I’m looking at you Tiffany!) Well, regardless of how you spend your Valentine’s
A dual post from Kathryn and Elizabeth When talking about great couples from sci-fi and fantasy books, there are a lot of obvious ones: Harry and Ginny, Westley and Buttercup, Drogo and Daenerys, Katniss and Peeta (or Gale), and Bella and Edward (or Jacob), to name a few. We decided instead of listing all the
This book was released less than a month ago, but it’s already causing a stir, and it’s easy to see why. Red Rising has elements that will be familiar to anyone who’s read books like Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, or Divergent, but Pierce Brown has taken these concepts and made them into something original and
Love is the color of blood. Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing… I read the description for Six Gun Snow White on Goodreads: “…Valente transports the title’s heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West…” and thought, oh well, I’m not much of a fan of Westerns,