BoingBoing: “Terminator/Matrix territory, the kind of thing that plays an open chord across all the strings of our collective anxieties about power, money, and political corruption . . . always great fun. You’re gonna like this one.” Read Cory Doctorow’s full review of Zer0es here.
InStyle: Leah Ferguson’s debut follows a 30-year-old pregnant woman wondering “what if” in a captivating Sliding Doors-like scenario. Join the conversation using #instylebookclub.
World Fantasy Award nominee Yoon Ha Lee’s debut novel NINEFOX GAMBIT, in which disgraced hexarchate captain Kel Cheris can redeem her career by retaking a star fortress lost to heretics but must ally with the brilliant undead general Shuos Jedao — genius, arch-traitor, and mass murderer, plus two sequels to Jonathan Oliver at Solaris by Jennifer Jackson.
Publishers Weekly: Seventeen young adult writers including Steve Brezenoff, Beth Revis, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Courtney Summers contribute to this powerful project—a single story told through multiple perspectives—to provide insight into what drove Kirby Matheson, an imagined school shooter, to kill five classmates, a teacher, and himself. The voices include those of Kirby’s girlfriend, childhood neighbor, and even the gun he used, creating an external portrait of a complex character who “did some good things and some monstrous things in life.” […]
Wall Street Journal: Five low-level hackers are forcibly recruited by an anonymous three-letter government agency to work on a mysterious project. When these “zeroes” can’t resist using their access to hack the government itself, they uncover something downright diabolical. This taut thriller will reinforce your paranoia about big government, big data, and that big, nerdy barista who just seems to know too much.
Booklist: Best-selling Charbonneau’s newest thriller examines the dark side of social media. When 16-year-old Kayla’s friend introduces her to NEED, a new social networking site that’s giving teens exactly what they say they need in exchange for them completing a task, Kayla is quick to participate. What she needs is a new kidney for her brother, who won’t live long without one. But things quickly escalate to a fever pitch. Told in first-person chapters from Kayla’s point of view and alternating […]
Booklist: What must it be like to know, even tangentially, a shooter who kills 6 teens? This is the horrible realization of 16 young people (and a gun), all of whom have at least a vague memory of, if not a direct link to, highschool junior Kirby Matheson, the strange, quiet “good” kid who kills 6 and wounds 5 of his fellow students one morning at Middleborough High School. Some of the memories are sweet and poignant, others harsh. Many are […]
Each new novel has seen Wendig’s talents become more finely honed, and Zer0es is his most focused and best-written book to date. Like Stephen King, Wendig has the ability to put you inside a character’s head with just a couple of sentences […] As Zer0es progresses, a mythological element starts to come into play, before the novel explodes into conflict on a level far beyond what you might expect from the early part. It’s all told in a slightly breathless style that […]
Ferguson offers women’s fiction a fresh new voice with her first novel, a delightful tale about the roads we choose in life. Readers will enjoy following Molly Sullivan from one New Year’s Eve to the next, the chapters (each a different month between the bookend holidays) cleverly alternating between “if she said no” and “if she said yes.” The brilliant epilogue ties it all together perfectly. This is a unique take on a familiar plot! Read the full review of All […]
Author of I AM PRINCESS X and BONESHAKER, Cherie Priest’s DRAWING FIRE, a new young adult novel in which Denise Farber moves into a haunted house her mother is restoring and discovers a golden age master’s unpublished epic comic book that some people might kill to get their hands on, to Cheryl Klein at Scholastic by Jennifer Jackson.