Title: White Cat Author: Holly Black Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry (US) / Gollancz (UK) Publication Date: May 2010 (US) / June 2010 (UK) Hardcover: 320 pages Cassel comes from a family of curse…
April 2010
Title:Wicked becomes You Author: Meredith Duran Genre: Historical Romance Publisher: Pocket Publication Date: April 27 2010 Paperback: 416 pages Stand alone or series: Stand Alone She’s been burned not once but twice by London’s so-call ed gentlemen . .…
Title: The World Inside Author: Robert Silverberg Genre: Dystopia, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Orb Books (Tor) Publication Date: 1971 (1st Ed) / March 2010 (2nd Ed) Paperback: 256 Pages (2nd Ed) Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly…
A Dude reads PNR: Harry reads The Shattered Sylph by L.J.McDonald
This is our brand new segment in which our delightful buddy Harry, from Temple Library Reviews will be joining us once a month to review paranormal romance from a guy’s perspective. But we will let him introduce himself, please…
Welcome to guest dare! For those new to the feature, our Guest Dare is a monthly endeavor in which we invite an unsuspecting victim to read a book totally outside of their comfort zone. You can read all previous…
Cover Matters is a new monthly feature in which we examine the medium that is first contact between a reader and a book: the cover. This feature will dedicate more separate space to a topic that has always intrigued,…
Cover Matters is a new monthly feature in which we examine the medium that is first contact between a reader and a book: the cover. This feature will dedicate more separate space to a topic that has always intrigued,…
Title: Spellwright Author: Blake Charlton Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: March 2010 Hardcover: 352 pages Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the caster to create spells by writing out the…
As you may have heard, this past weekend the LA Times Festival of Books took place at my alma mater, UCLA. Over the weekend of April 24th – 25th, thousands of book lovers, authors, book sellers, publishers and other…
Hope you are all having a great Sunday, here’s what we learnt last week and what we have prepared for this one: DRAMA! Mayhem! Blogging! In the past few weeks we have seen a plethora of articles about blogging…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. This is how the Smugglers’…
Well, folks, here it is – the official list of winners of Thursday’s Meg Cabot Twitter Party Giveaway! First, we’d like to extend a huge thank you to the folks that made the party a success – Meg Cabot…
Today we have another author spotlight on The Book Smugglers (two in one week! Go figure!). Today’s guest is the fantastic Urban Fantasy author Laura Bickle. Laura is the author of the brand spankin’ new Anya Kalinczyk series, whose…
Title: The King of the Crags Author: Stephen Deas Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Gollancz Publication date: April 2010 Paperback: 384 pages Stand alone or series:Sequel to The Adamantine Palace, second book in a trilogy. Prince Jehal has murdered, poisoned and…
Title: Epitaph Road Author: David Patneaude Genre: Young Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian Publisher: Egmont USA Publication Date: March 2010 Hardcover: 272 pages 2097 is a transformed world. Thirty years earlier, a mysterious plague wiped out 97 percent of the male…
Title:Radiant Shadows Author:Melissa Marr Genre: YA, Fantasy, Romance Publisher: Harper Teen Publication Date: April 2010 Hardcover: 352 pages Stand alone or series: Book 4 in the Wicked Lovely series Hunger for nourishment. Hunger for touch. Hunger to belong. Half-human…
Hello all! Today we bring you another author spotlight on The Book Smugglers, with the debut urban fantasy novelist Sonya Bateman! Sonya is the author of Master of None – a book about a singularly unlucky thief, a Djinn,…
Title: Master of None Author: Sonya Bateman Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Pocket (Simon & Schuster) Publication Date: March 2010 Paperback: ONE UNLUCKY THIEF. ONE UNLIKELY GENIE. ONE VERY ODD COUPLE. Gavyn Donatti is the world’s unluckiest thief. Just ask…
Graphic Novel Review: Irredeemable Volume #2 by Mark Waid and artwork by Peter Krause
Title: Irredeemable vol.#2 Author: Mark Waid/ Artist: Peter Krause Genre: Graphic Novels/ Comics Publisher: Boom! Studios Publishing Date: March, 2010 Paperback: 128 pages Stand Alone or series: This volume collects issues 5-8 of the ongoing series. What if the…
Good morning to all! It is time to say goodbye to our Steampunk Appreciation Weeks and resume regular schedule with a pretty cool week ahead of us, if we may say so ourselves. But first: Giveaway winners: The winners…
Steampunk Week – Guest Author and Giveaway: Meljean Brook talks Steampunk Romance
Our last day of our Steampunk Appreciation Weeks is dedicated to Steampunk Romance. Earlier today we posted an article by Heather Massey, from The Galaxy Express. Now we open the floor to Meljean Brook, romance writer extraordinaire, whose Guardian…
Our last day of our Steampunk Appreciation Weeks is dedicated to Steampunk Romance. First up is an article by Heather Massey, the force behind The Galaxy Express, a dedicated niche blog for all things Science Fiction Romance; her blog…
Steampunk Week – Book Review: The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
Title: The Alchemy of Stone Author: Ekaterina Sedia Genre: Fantasy, Steampunk Publisher: Prime Books Publication Date: August 2008 Paperback: 301 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds…
Steampunk Week – Novella Review: Here There Be Monsters by Meljean Brook
Title: Here There be Monsters (in the Burning Up anthology ) Author: Meljean Brook Genre: Romance/ Steampunk Publisher: Berkley Publication date: August 2010 Paperback: about 120 pages Stand alone or series: First entry in the author’s upcoming Steampunk Romance…
Title: Anti-Ice Author: Stephen Baxter Genre: Science Fiction, Steampunk Publisher: Eos Publication Date: September 1994 Paperback: 304 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel A new element has been found by millionaire industrialist Josiah Traveller – a mysterious…