When you are all out of heroes, all that's left are the villains. Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in all Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen, and a twisted alchemist.... Continue Reading →
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Stewart's debut was "right place/ right time" for me... This is the first book I read on vacation and I had huge expectations. I needed to be transported. I needed to be engaged by characters and plot and conflict and all things not my children or work! Ha! The Bone Shard Daughter took care of... Continue Reading →
The Exodus Betrayal by N.C. Scrimgeour
Three words to describe The Exodus Betrayal: Page-turner. Twisty. Cyber-Fun. (I may have made that last one up:) Synopsis: The cybernetics in her head could save a planet. But when the man who put them there turns them against her in a deadly battle of wills, she’ll have to find a way to save herself.... Continue Reading →
Monkey Around by Jadie Jang
Publisher's Blurb: Barista, activist, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there's disappearances, shapeshifter murders,... Continue Reading →
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Publisher Blurb: Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that... Continue Reading →