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Review: Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau

Jan 152014
 

charbonneau-independentstudyShelf Awareness: Joelle Charbonneau melds coming-of-age themes with the suspense of a detective story in this second installment of a planned trilogy, with an intellectual narrative more complex than most dystopian literature.

Malencia “Cia” Vale continues her quest for knowledge, and her life in the dystopian United Commonwealth, a future U.S. that is rebuilding after worldwide political and environmental upheaval. Now a student at Tosu City University in the capital, Cia can’t remember the trauma and betrayals that befell her in the previous novel because her memories were erased. Continue reading »

Lost City by Jay Stringer

Jan 142014
 

stringer-lostcityEven though he’s worked his way to the top of the West Midlands criminal heap as right-hand man to crime boss Veronica Gaines, ex-cop Eoin Miller still has to deal with the dregs of the underworld to earn his pay. That’s why he’s dispatched to a low-end hotel to work damage control after a hooker kills a local lowlife. But when one of his comrades is mysteriously murdered at the scene, and a suspicious fire claims two more victims, a simple clean-up job turns absolutely filthy. Continue reading »

Deal: Joelle Charbonneau

Jan 132014
 

joelle-charbonneauNew York Times best-selling author of The Testing Joelle Charbonneau’s new YA novel N.E.E.D., pitched as Pretty Little Liars meets Homeland, about a website that will fulfill any wish provided you fulfill a request and the teen who investigates when people start getting hurt, to Margaret Raymo at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, for publication in Fall 2015, by Stacia Decker.

Philip K. Dick Award Nominees

Jan 102014
 

clarke-madscientistsdaughterDMLA congratulates Cassandra Rose Clarke on her nomination for a 2013 Philp K. Dick Award for her book The Mad Scientist’s Daughter!

Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion… and more. But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however, Finn struggles to find his place in the world, and in Cat’s heart.

Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau

Jan 072014
 

charbonneau-independentstudyIn the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization. In Independent Study, Cia is a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas—and though the government has tried to erase her memory of the brutal horrors of The Testing, Cia remembers. Continue reading »

A Chorus Lineup by Joelle Charbonneau

Jan 072014
 

charbonneau-achoruslineupPaige Marshall is back in the spotlight in Joelle Charbonneau’s newest Glee Club Mystery. This time the high school show choir coach is fighting to keep her singers in a national competition despite charges of sabotage…

They have the talent. They have the heart. Nothing can stop Prospect Glen’s choir from taking home the trophy in the Show Choir National Competition. But below the soaring voices, there are murmurs of suspicion. Continue reading »

Starred Review: Hang Wire by Adam Christopher

Jan 062014
 

christopher-hangwireBooklist: It’s only natural to approach a new novel by the author of Empire State (2011), Seven Wonders (2012), and The Age Atomic (2013) with wide-eyed enthusiasm and a childlike sense of eager anticipation, and Christopher fulfills our expectations and more: just when we think the story couldn’t get any weirder, he adds a whole new layer of weird, bouncing from one unexpected moment of goofiness to another, keeping us stuck to our chairs until we think it’ll take an industrial-strength solvent to pry us loose. Days after finishing the book, you’ll still have a grin on your face.

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Greed by Dan O’Shea

Jan 022014
 

o'shea-greedEx-Marine, Nick Hardin, heads back from a decade in Africa to his hometown, Chicago, with $100 million in blood diamonds stolen from an Al Qaeda’s financing pipeline. His retirement plan? To cash out through a Chicago Mossad contact and head for the beach. But soon, Hardin’s stuck in Chicago with diamonds he can’t sell and a series of hit men, mobsters, and a Washington off-the-books black ops team on his tail. Continue reading »

Starred Review: The Shibboleth by John Hornor Jacobs

Jan 012014
 

jacobs-theshibbolethBooklist: Jacob’s The Twelve-Fingered Boy (2012) was exactly what the teens-with-powers subgenre needed: a fullbody beat down that reminded us that having such powers would really, really suck. This hefty sequel follows 16-year-old delinquent Shreve, who can possess people’s bodies, as he shifts from juvenile facility to psych ward to, at last, the Society of Extranaturals, a boot camp of sorts for “post-human” kids run by the highly untrustworthy Mr. Quincrux. Continue reading »

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