A few weeks ago, our UK HQ received what can only be described as the coolest book-related invitation ever. To celebrate the release of Nightshade, the sequel to The Poison Diaries, I was to be whisked away to Alnwick Castle in the North of England and take part in a two-day event visiting the locations [...]
Title: The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter
Author: Brent Hayward
Genre: New Weird, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: ChiZine Publications
Publication date: May 15th 2011
Paperback: 250 pages
The city is crumbling… Clouds over Nowy Solum have not parted in a hundred years. Gods have deserted their temples. In the last days of a [...]
What She Said: The Waste Lands and Devil’s Kiss
Today we bring you the latest installment in our feature, “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has already read and reviewed. The idea arose because of the dilemma that if one of us reads and reviews a book, the other can’t really post again about it, right? WRONG! [...]
Title: The Replacement
Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Genre: Young Adult, Dark Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Razorbill (US) / Simon & Schuster Children’s (UK)
Publication Date: September 2010 (US) / January 2011 (UK)
Hardcover: 352 Pages
Mackie Doyle is [...]
Author: Brom
Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling
Publisher: Eos
Publication Date: August 2009
Trade Paperback: 496 Pages
Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief—and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling [...]
Halloween Week Anthology Review: Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O’Neil
Title: Taste of Tenderloin
Author: Gene O’Neil
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Apex Book Company
Publishing Date: August 2009
Paperback: 162 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone
How did I get the book: ARC from the publisher
Why did I read the book: We always try to support small [...]
Title: Firethorn
Author: Sarah Micklem
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult (US Hardcover) / Spectra (US Mass Market) / Voyager (UK)
Publication Date: June 2004 (US Hardcover) / April 2009 (US Mass Market) / March 2006 (UK)
Book Review: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Title: Tender Morsels
Author: Margo Lanagan
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Publisher: Knopf Young Adult (US) / David Fickling Books (UK)
Publication Date: October 1998 (US) / July 2009 (UK)
Hardcover: 448 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone [...]
Title: Naamah’s Kiss
Author: Jacqueline Carey
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: June 24, 2009
Hardcover: 656 pages
Stand alone or series: Book one of a new series set in the same world as the Kushiel’s Legacy books, though following a completely new heroine. Naamah’s Kiss stands on its own, [...]
Title: Street Magic
Author: Caitlin Kittredge
Genre: Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Publisher: St. Martin’s
Publication Date: June 2, 2009
Paperback: 352 pages
Stand Alone or Series: Book one in the new Black London series.
Why did I read this book: I had read Ms. Kittredge’s Nocturne City books, and though was not [...]
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