Booklist:…Peppered with plot twists that will keep readers on their toes. Conradt succeeds at creating well-rounded main characters that complement one another, filling their stories with drama reminiscent of quick-moving made-for-TV movies. Romance fans will gobble up Candace and Toby’s story, rooting for them to be together despite the odds stacked against them. A thrilling romance sure to entertain.
Publishers Weekly: This enjoyable latest installment of the long-running Liaden space adventure saga, featuring the ever-resourceful Clan Korval and their eclectic allies, picks up on the simultaneous and parallel story lines of ALLIANCE OF EQUALS (2016) and THE GATHERING EDGE (2017)… As always, this intelligent space opera focuses on matters of manners, honor, duty, and clever repartee; violence is rarely the solution, and subtlety wins out over overt force. For returning fans, it provides thoroughly satisfying progression or resolution for multiple threads and will feel comfortably familiar for […]
Georgina Kamsika’s GODDESS OF THE NORTH, an #OwnVoices contemporary fantasy about a bright young police detective who is secretly the Hindu goddess Saraswathi, who must solve a murder with repercussions in both the human world and the world of the gods, to Ashley Rugirello at Reuts by Jennie Goloboy.
Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made the 2017 Locus Recommended Reading list! NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus) NOVELS – FANTASY The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor) City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher) Creatures of Will and Temper, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams) NOVELS – HORROR Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK) YOUNG ADULT […]
Kirkus: Ireland takes the [zombie] genre up a notch with her deft exploration of racial oppression in this alternative Reconstruction-Era America. With a shrewd, scythe-wielding protagonist of color, Dread Nation is an exciting must-read.
DMLA congratulates Lucy Taylor! Taylor’s Sweetlings is a finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award! Superior Achievement in Long Fiction: Lucy Taylor – Sweetlings (Tor.com)
Publishers Weekly: The sixth installment of Bishop’s paranormal series (after 2017’s Etched in Bone), set in an alternate upstate New York, constitutes a fresh take on a series concept…It is a standalone thriller, set near a village called Sproing in the Finger Lakes. New to the cast is narrator Vicki DeVine, who, unlike past protagonists, is an ordinary human woman. Recently divorced from an abusive wheeler-dealer, she has come to Lake Silence to renovate the property that constituted her settlement. The Jumble is exactly that: a dilapidated sprawl […]
School Library Journal: Slavery comes to a halt when the dead on Civil War battlefields begin to rise and eat their compatriots. The north and south put aside their philosophical differences and join forces against the undead. They are aided in their efforts by the passage of the Native and Negro Reeducation Act which forces African American boys and girls into combat schools. Graduates from these schools are a buffer between the living and the undead. Jane McKeen is a biracial […]
Audio rights to C.L. Polk’s forthcoming debut WITCHMARK, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, in a nice deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Caitlin McDonald.
Hungarian rights to New York Times best-selling author Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON, and GRAVE PERIL, the first three books in the Dresden Files series, to Delta Vision KFT via Milena Kaplaveric at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson. Korean rights to Yoon Ha Lee’s Hugo- and Nebula-nominated NINEFOX GAMBIT and its first sequel RAVEN STRATAGEM, to East-Asia Publishing Co., by Jackie Yang at Eric Yang Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry. Russian rights to the Nebula and Hugo Award […]