Obsessed with the apocalypse, in all its trivial detail.
The Sunshine Series
Author: Nikki Rae
Publisher: Nikki Rae
Genre: Paranormal Romance/Vampire
This is a bit of an unorthodox review from me, since I’m reviewing all the three books of a trilogy together. I did this to make it easier though, so I could post the review all at once. (And because I didn’t want to make the author wait even longer, since she’s waited a hell of a long time already.
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Cities and Thrones
Author: Carrie Patel
Publisher: Angry Robot
Release date: July 2, 2015 (UK), July 7 (North America)
Note: This book was provided by the publisher.
Blurb:
In the fantastical, gaslit underground city of Recoletta, oligarchs from foreign states and revolutionaries from the farming communes vie for power in the wake of the city’s coup. The dark, forbidden knowledge of how the city came to be founded has been released into the world for all to read,
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Title: The Walled City
Author: Ryan Graudin
Publisher: Little, Brown
Genre: YA
Release Date: November4, 2014
I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley.
Blurb:
There are three rules in the Walled City: Run fast. Trust no one. Always carry your knife. Right now, my life depends completely on the first. Run, run, run.
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Title: Heaven’s Queen
Author: Rachel Bach
Publisher: Orbit
Genre: SF
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Blurb:
From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell’s doomed ship, Devi Morris’ life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that’s eating her alive.
Now, with the captain missing and everyone —
The Shadow Master
Author: Craig Cormick
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Angry Robot
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Note: this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley
Blurb:
DescriptionIn a land riven with plague, inside the infamous Walled City, two families vie for control: the Medicis with their genius inventor Leonardo; the Lorraines with Galileo, the most brilliant alchemist of his generation.
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Child of a Hidden Sea
Author: A.M. Dellamonica
Genre: SF/F
Publisher: Tor
Available now
Note: this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley
Blurb:
One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life of the aunt she has never known. The next, she finds herself flung into the warm and salty waters of an unfamiliar world.
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Everyone and their mother is reading The Girl With All The Gifts, and that is how it should be.
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class.
When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite.
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The Mirror Empire
Author: Kameron Hurley
Series: Worldbreaker Saga (book 1)
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Angry Robot
Release date: September 2, 2014 (North America); September 4, 2014 (UK)
Note: This book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley.
Blurb:
On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself.
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Some Fine Day
Author: Kat Ross
Genre: YA SF
Publisher: Strange Chemistry/Angry Robot
Release Date: July 1, 2014 (North America and digital); Jul 3, 2014 (UK)
Note: this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley
Blurb:
Sixteen-year-old Jansin Nordqvist is on the verge of graduating from the black ops factory known as the Academy. She’s smart and deadly and knows three things with absolute certainty.
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The Buried Life
Author: Carrie Patel
Genre: Dystopian, SF
Publisher: Angry Robot
Release Date: July 29, 2014 (North America), August 7, 2014 (UK)
Note: this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley.
Blurb:
The gaslight and shadows of the underground city of Recoletta hide secrets and lies. When Inspector Liesl Malone investigates the murder of a renowned historian,
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The Kiss of Deception
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publisher: Holt/Macmillan Children’s
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Note: this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley.
Blurb:
In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met.
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Last God Standing
Author: Michael Boatman
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Angry Robot
Release date: March 2014 (US/Canada/ebook); April 2014 (UK)
Blurb:
Creator. Supreme being. Stand-up comic…?!
When God decides to quit and join the human race to see what all the fuss is about, all Hell breaks loose.
Sensing his abdication,
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Th
e Book of the Crowman
Series: The Black Dawn
Author: Joseph D’Lacey
Publisher: Angry Robot
Genre: Fantasy
Release date: March 2014
Blurb:
It is the Black Dawn, a time of environmental apocalypse, the earth wracked and dying.
It is the Bright Day, a time long generations hence, when a peace has descended across the world.
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