Publishers Weekly: Sometimes the most terrifying horrors are not those involving monsters out of fantasy but those taken straight from today’s headlines. Nijkamp’s debut follows four high school students on their first day of the spring semester in Opportunity, Ala. Over the course of 54 minutes—the amount of time a gunman holds their school hostage—their lives collide. Each of the four has an intimate connection to the shooter, and all must find a way to face the unfolding tragedy. While Claire views the event from outside the school, Autumn, Sylv, and Tomás are on the front lines. Love, loyalty, bravery, and loss meld into a chaotic, heart-wrenching mélange of issues that unite some and divide others. A highly diverse cast of characters, paired with vivid imagery and close attention to detail, set the stage for an engrossing, unrelenting tale. The starkly chilling realism and themes of abuse, death, and assault, among others, may prove too much for younger or sensitive readers, but the story unquestionably leaves an indelible mark.
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B&N SF&F Blog: This is a rich, complicated, textured world, with a myriad of different people, different creatures, different cultures, coming together in both a hard clash and a harder understanding. This is the kind of fantasy that makes you slow down, sound out the unforgiving consonants of a foreign culture, so you can hear those uncomfortable vowels, both the familiar and the alien. We don’t have to be just one thing, but several, and in fruitful opposition. Winter isn’t coming. It’s already here.
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New York Times: In Amanda Downum’s novel DREAMS OF SHREDS AND TATTERS, Liz Drake is a young woman living on the East Coast with her devoted boyfriend, whom she seems a bit ambivalent about which probably explains her rather casual attitude toward him, a casualness that extends to other things as well.
The Monitor: This fascinating novel subverts Pygmalion, rags-to-riches and boy-meets-girl tropes to memorable effect….The narrative style is a delightful pastiche of Georgian and Victorian suffused with striking sensuality and modern sensibilities, as if Charles Dickens and Jane Austen had a child together and raised her on shojo and yaoi manga. The voice of the Pleasure Merchant’s apprentice will stay with you for days.
Kirkus: I missed Stinger when in first came out in the late 1980s, but the new reprint from Subterranean Press is the perfect chance to correct that oversight. The story takes place over a 24-hour period in Inferno, Texas—a town that’s already primed for trouble because of racial tension, a poor economy, and gang violence. Things ignite when two unidentified flying objects land nearby, thus beginning a battle in an interstellar war that spells trouble for the small Texas town. The unidentified objects are actually visitors from another world. One of them is an alien bounty hunter known as Stinger, and the complete destruction of an alien town is a small price to pay to capture his deadly prey. 
Locus: Dickinson has taken the gender concerns of Delany, and Delany’s attention to economic/vocational matters and colonialism/imperialism, all set in a pre-technological milieu, and conflated them with some of the aforementioned Cherryh-esque literary/thematic tactics to create a truly fine and distinctively individual fantasy novel that delivers action and philosophy, economics and warfare, love and hatred, in equal measures. His voice, however originally influenced, rings out strong and clear as a new addition to the chorus of fantasists.
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Booklist: After barely surviving the events in Koko Takes a Holiday (2014), Koko Martstellar, the world’s most badass mercenary, and her boyfriend, Jedidiah Flynn, are back home trying to live peacefully as the proprietors of the most decadent and violent resort on twenty-sixth-century Earth. Koko wants to leave the killing behind, but there is still a determined bounty hunter out to capture her. So begins Koko’s next cyberpunk adventure, one that is even more dangerous and with bigger stakes than those in her previous outing. Told in an urgent present-tense voice, with alternating viewpoints, this novel is fast paced, action packed, violent, and just plain fun. And since this is a sequel, readers are treated to even more world building and character development, both of which are just as interesting and satisfying as the action-driven plot. Although Koko’s tale is told in words only, it has a graphic-novel storytelling sensibility that will appeal to fans of series like Hellboy or Saga. As the ending implies, we can expect more from Koko in the future, so make sure this crowd-pleasing, well-executed series is on library shelves now.
Forbidden Planet: Picking up where ‘The Incorruptibles’ left off, ‘Foreign Devils’ is a fast paced ride through a rough and dangerous world. […] ‘Foreign Devils’ is one hell of a ride – pun fully intended – and I can’t wait to see where Jacobs takes us next.