I’ll be honest: I don’t really know how to review an art book. Much to my artist husband’s sorrow, my appreciation of art is usually limited to such devastatingly acute thoughts as, “Wow. Pretty.” I’m still training myself to read comic books. If I don’t stop to think about it, my eyes go right to…
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Review: Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
This is the first book in the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger, released February 5th, 2013. The Blurb It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor…
Review: The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination Edited by John Joseph Adams
Everyone knows that superheroes are boring. Villains are more interesting: more complex in their madness, more brilliant in their darkness. When the villains are also genius scientists… Well, then you have something remarkable. The authors writing for this collection go in all sorts of different directions. Some of their villains are well intentioned, others are narcissistic,…
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: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
This is the debut novel from Daniel O’Malley, published on January 11, 2012 from Little, Brown. The Blurb The body you are wearing used to be mine. So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she…