This book foretells the near-future dystopian conclusion to our recent political history: Occupy Wallstreet and the 1%, GMO food scandals, domestic government spying campaigns, and the health detriments of high fructose corn syrup. In this somewhere-in-the-future world, the richest 1% literally float high above the rest. Below, spouses are chosen by government dictate and everyone…
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Review: The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig
Oh, Mookie Pearl. Just an average boy living in a mafia world. One populated by creatures of the Great Below: goblins, snake-faced men, demon gods and other things that would sooner eat you than look at you. Mookie’s got problems. He’s addicted to a (supernatural) underworld drug, his boss is ill, his daughter hates him,…
Review: Trapped by Kevin Hearne
This is the fifth book in the Iron Druid series from Kevin Hearne. It will be released November 27th, 2012 from Del Rey. The Blurb After twelve years of secret training, Atticus O’Sullivan is finally ready to bind his apprentice, Granuaile, to the earth and double the number of Druids in the world. But on…
Review: Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
This book is the first in a series from debut author Jay Kristoff called The Lotus War. It will be released on September 18, 2012 from St. Martin’s Press in hard cover and digital. Buy it here. The Blurb A DYING LAND The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse; an island nation once…
Review: Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig
This is the second book in Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black series. It was released from Angry Robot on August 28th. Continuing the tradition of the first in the series, Blackbirds, this one also has a kick ass cover. The Blurb Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole “settling down thing” that Louis has…