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Set sometime between the action of Solo and Rogue One, Han and Chewie are on Coruscant and hear of a possible job. Easy money! But it's a trap, and Chewbacca is forced on a mission to a very dangerous planet with 'a tall droid and a rogue librarian' to pick up a dark artifact. Pros:... Continue Reading →
From the dark corners of the internet to the eerie depths of the forest, the boogeyman lurks. An odd collection of elongated limbs in black and white, an oval-shaped head, and a lurking, a following, a stalking. The Slender Man. Mark is a young man of monied Manhattan, enrolled in an elite private high school that... Continue Reading →
Age of Assassins is a. a complex castle whodunit b. a back/front/side/top/bottom-stabbing political thriller c. magic-laced coming-of-age d. ALL OF THE ABOVE. At first, the premise seems quite simple: an assassin and her apprentice have been brought to the seat of the kingdom to weed out a possible move on the heir. Master and second... Continue Reading →
"Everything you've done, your past, it's all just a story you tell yourself. Some if it is true, but some of it is lies." Trail of Lightning is filled with lines that I highlighted and reread. This is one of the best. It is one that I not only identify with, but one that revealed... Continue Reading →
'Salarum! Salarum! Salarum! I WANT MY MONEY!' Nicco Salarum grew up in a brothel, lives in an abandoned slaughterhouse, and spends a good deal of this novel getting chased by golems. He doesn't have the best of luck. In debt to the biggest mob boss in town, he needs money fast. He gets an offer... Continue Reading →
The tech is hot, the corruption is rampant, and the grit doesn't wash off easy. Richard K. Morgan's Thin Air is a fast-paced scifi thriller set on the 4th planet from the sun. Hakan Veil has an issue with his physiology: his mech-infused body needs to sleep four out of twelve months of the year,... Continue Reading →
In the Asian-inspired land of Kisia, three lives fight to make sense of new and shifting roles. Exiled Captain Rah e'Torin seeks to protect his soldiers and his herd when they are captured and put into servitude. The assassin Cassandra takes a job that unwittingly puts her in the midst of the greed of desperate... Continue Reading →
After her cargo ship is sunk by a hurricane, the robot Roz is marooned on a deserted island. Her crate is knocked open in the surf and a curious otter presses her activation button. She quickly becomes identified as 'The Monster' by the other animals. It takes time, but Roz is able to befriend her... Continue Reading →
In a futuristic, polluted - Escape from New York/ Terminator- style Los Angeles, Ash receives a frantic message from his bioengineer father telling him to run. Two minutes later their penthouse apartment is filled with robots on the hunt. Ash flees with his escape bag to the Red Zone, a non-patrolled sector given over to... Continue Reading →
