Review: Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl by Carolita Blythe

Apr 152013
 

Blythe - Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty-Girl coverLibrary Journal: Faye, 14, feels worthless and oppressed. Her father, a struggling musician, left her and her mother years earlier, her mother is full of anger and takes it out on the teen, and her two neighborhood friends have convinced her that if you aren’t attractive, the only way to make it in life is to take what you want. The novel, which is set in 1984 Brooklyn, opens with Faye and her friends staking out a former movie star’s apartment so they can take her money. The robbery goes awry Continue reading »

Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl by Carolita Blythe

Apr 092013
 

Blythe - Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty-Girl coverFans of Walter Dean Myers and Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer will cherish this gripping story of an African American girl living in 1980s Brooklyn, who overcomes abuse and neglect in discovering real friendship, self-respect, and that pretty and mean don’t always win. Continue reading »

Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells

Apr 022013
 

Emilie and the Hollow WorldWhile running away from home for reasons that are eminently defensible, Emilie’s plans to stow away on the steamship Merry Bell and reach her cousin in the big city go awry, landing her on the wrong ship and at the beginning of a fantastic adventure. Taken under the protection of Lady Marlende, Emilie learns that the crew hopes to use the aether currents and an experimental engine, and with the assistance of Lord Engal, journey to the interior of the planet in search of Marlende’s missing father. Continue reading »

Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel

Apr 022013
 

Maazel - Woke Up Lonely alt coverThurlow Dan is the founder of the Helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness in the twenty-first century. With its communes and speed-dating, mixers and confession sessions, the Helix has become a national phenomenon—and attracted the attention of governments worldwide. But Thurlow, camped out in his Cincinnati headquarters, is lonely—for his ex-wife, Esme, and their daughter, whom he hasn’t seen in ten years. Continue reading »

Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal

Apr 022013
 

Kowal - Without a Summer coverUp-and-coming fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal enchanted fans with her novels Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass, which introduced Regency glamourists Jane and David Vincent. In Without a Summer, Jane and Vincent take a break from their international travels. But in a world where magic is real, nothing—even the domestic sphere—is quite what it seems. Continue reading »

Congratulations to Brian Francis Slattery!

Mar 292013
 

Slattery - Lost EverythingLOST EVERYTHING wins the Philip K. Dick Award!

From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road. Continue reading »

Deal: Jim Butcher

Mar 182013
 

Photo credit: Julie Woodman-SchneiderNew York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS, beginning a new series “The Cinder Spires”, to Anne Sowards at Roc, in a seven-figure deal, in a three-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.

Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson

Mar 122013
 

Hopkinson - Sister Mine coverAs the only one in the family without magic, Makeda has decided to move out on her own and make a life for herself among the claypicken humans. But when her father goes missing, Makeda will have to find her own power—and reconcile with her twin sister, Abby-if she’s to have a hope of saving him . . . Continue reading »

Review: The Fainting Room by Sarah Pemberton Strong

Mar 032013
 

Strong - The Fainting Room coverKirkus Reviews: Strong (Burning the Sea, 2002) presents a disturbing and erotic narrative about the lives of an oddly matched married couple who host a teenage girl for the summer.

Ray Shepard is a prominent architect who marries Evelyn, a former circus employee/manicurist with a dark past, after he meets her while both attend a show under the big top. Evelyn’s arms and torso are heavily tattooed, and she keeps her skin hidden from Ray’s colleagues and friends Continue reading »

Deal: Cherie Priest

Feb 282013
 

Photo credit: Libby BulloffCherie Priest’s MAPLECROFT, a reinvention of the infamous legend of Lizzie Borden in which she and her scientist sister continue to investigate the monsters behind their parents’ death and build their defenses, little knowing that soon they and a few companions will be all that stands between humanity and the creatures that may destroy them, to Anne Sowards at Roc, in a two-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.

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