Author: Julianna Baggott
Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Horror
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: February 2012
Hardcover: 448 pages
We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet [...]
Today we are thrilled to be a part of Julianna Baggott’s blog tour, celebrating the release of her new novel. Pure is the much-buzzed about post-apocalyptic coming of age novel that has garnered praise from the varied likes of Justin Cronin (The Passage), Robert Olen Butler (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Daniel H. Wilson (
Author: James Dawson
Genre: Horror, Young Adult
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books
Publication date: February 2nd 2012
Paperback: 314 pages
Something wicked this way comes… She thought she’d be safe in the country, but you can’t escape your own nightmares, and Lis London dreams repeatedly that someone is [...]
Ana’s Smugglivus 2011 Feats of Strength
The Feats of Strength are an integral part of our annual Smugglivus Tradition. In previous years, the Feats of Strength were a challenge in which we dared each other to read a book that we knew was so far beyond the other’s comfort zone as to put it in another galaxy altogether. This year, we [...]
Title: The Woman in Black
Author: Susan Hill
Genre: Horror, Gothic, Historical
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday (originally published by Hamish Hamilton, UK)
Publication Date: September 2011 (originally October 1983)
Paperback: 176 pages
A classic ghost story: the chilling tale of a menacing specter haunting a small [...]
Author: Marianna Baer
Genre: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Balzer & Bray (HarperCollins)
Publication Date: September 2011
Hardcover: 400 pages
Leena Thomas’s senior year at boarding school starts with a cruel shock: Frost House, the cozy Victorian dorm where she and her best friends chose to live, [...]
Title: Dark Inside
Author: Jeyn Roberts
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Apocalypse, Young Adult
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s (US) / Macmillan Children’s (UK)
Publication Date: November 2011 (US) / September 2011 (UK)
Hardcover: 336 pages
Since mankind began, civilizations have always fallen: the Romans, the Greeks, [...]
Author: Jeff Hirsch
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Horror, Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia, Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Date: September 2011
Hardcover: 288 pages
The wars that followed The Collapse nearly destroyed civilization. Now, twenty years later, the world is faced with a choice—rebuild what was or make something new.
Stephen [...]
Joint Review: Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey
Author: Amy Garvey
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publication date: September 2011
Hardcover: 304 pages
It was a beautiful, warm summer day, the day Danny died.
Suddenly Wren was alone and shattered. In a heartbroken fury, armed with dark incantations and a secret power, Wren [...]
Author: A. Lee Martinez
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy, Weirdness
Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: October 2010
Hardcover: 251 pages
Diana’s life was in a rut – she hated her job, she was perpetually single, and she needed a place to live. But then the perfect apartment came along. [...]
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