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Ten pages into Steven Brust’s Good Guys, I was worried. Worried that I had met this premise before. I was right, but at the same time, I was wrong. Brust’s novel starts with the familiar: a detective investigating a murder aided by magic. From Butcher to Carriger to many in between, we are familiar with... Continue Reading →
The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French is a raucous epic fantasy set in a world populated by orcs, humans, centaurs, wizards, and more. The story centers around The Grey Bastards band of half-orcs who with other half-orc gangs patrol the southern border to protect humans from full-blooded orcs. The well-written main character Jackal is the... Continue Reading →
Adrienne Celt's Invitation to a Bonfire tells the story of Zoya Andropova's travels from the Soviet Union as a young girl to an all-girls private school on the East Coast of the United States during the 1920s. She struggles through the last years of her schooling trying to learn English and make friends. The novel... Continue Reading →
The Comic Book Story of Baseball would be a great addition to any baseball fan's shelf or school library. Alex Irvine effectively combines the history of our American pastime with the larger fabric our nation's story. Thanks to the whimsical art style (who knew Walt Whitman owned a Beer Guzzler Helmet?) and its vast depth... Continue Reading →
Michael Koryta continues his stellar writing career with this novel about Rob Barrett, a long-time academic in interrogation techniques, but new to the FBI and field work. He works his first case in the same coastal Maine town where he spent his summers as a youth. After two months working the case, he finally gets... Continue Reading →
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