Booklist: In a novel that works both as stand-alone and sequel, Bennett returns to the same postapocalyptic fantasy world he created to much critical and reader acclaim in City of Stairs (2014), but this time, the setting is a ruined city where the ruling god is dead and lawlessness abounds. The retired General Mulaghesh is forced back into the fray in the city of Voortyashtan, so named for defeated god Voortya, who had promised her army of supporters a glorious afterlife […]
RT Book Reviews: The third book in the Matchmaking Babies series opens with Lord Warrick asking Lady Caroline Trelawney Dowling for help in refining his manners in order to find a wife and provide an heir. Lady Caroline finds that she enjoys spending time with Lord Warrick. For reasons of her own, Lady Caroline has chosen not to marry. But will Lord Warrick and the two abandoned children she has been taking care of make her change her mind? Brown’s latest […]
i09: Newman does a fantastic job…incredibly well-realized world-building, showing a realistic (semi) post-scarcity society on another world…Newman has a real gift for depicting people’s capacity for naivete and viciousness, and how the two things often go together. Planetfall will ultimately mess with your head. It draws you in with such a well-realized world that by the time you start to realize that its main character isn’t quite who you thought she was, you’re already fully inhabiting her skin. (The device […]
RT Book Reviews: Nijkamp’s emotional, powerful debut fictionalizes an all-too-frequent occurrence in today’s world. Her strong storytelling pulls readers into a school shooting, leaving them amongst the gunman’s victims in Opportunity High’s auditorium. Read RT’s full review of This is Where It Ends here.
Congratulations to the DMLA authors on Barnes & Noble’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2015 List! The Traitor Baru Cormorant, by Seth Dickinson Planetfall, by Emma Newman Vision in Silver, by Anne Bishop Karen Memory, by Elizabeth Bear The Aeronaut’s Windlass, by Jim Butcher
Congratulations to Elizabeth Bear on Karen Memory being included in Library Journal‘s Best Books of 2015!
Congratulations to DMLA clients nominated for a 2015 Goodreads Choice Award! Best Science Fiction: Star Wars: Aftermath – Chuck Wendig Best Fantasy: Vision in Silver – Anne Bishop The Aeronaut’s Windlass – Jim Butcher Best Horror: The Border – Robert McCammon
Congratulations to the DMLA clients nominated for a 2015 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award! Best Science Fiction Novel 2015 Cassandra Rose Clarke – Our Lady of the Ice Best Fantasy Adventure Novel 2015 Elizabeth Bear – Karen Memory Jim Butcher – The Aeronaut’s Windlass Best Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding 2015 Anne Bishop – Vision in Silver
Booklist: Crime-fighting duo FBI agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota BCA agent Kirk Stevens (The Stolen Ones, 2015) are drawn into the hunt for an online predator when questions arise about the suicide of a classmate of Stevens’ daughter, Andrea. After promising Andrea they’d poke around, Windermere and Stevens find that the troubled teen forged a suicide pact with a girl she met on an online suicide site. FBI tech experts determine that the girl’s heavily cloaked identity is a cover for […]
Kirkus: “In a conflagrant climax overflowing with images of glory and wonder, Duane neatly manages to pull together and tie off plot threads that have been dangling since the earliest volumes.” Read the full Kirkus review of Games Wizards Play here.