Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Watkins Media Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: 4 Stars Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? If you’ve followed my blog at all, you’ll know I have a habit of falling into book series without meaning to, and this Netgalley offering is no exception. By pure luck, …
Genre: Thriller Publisher: Head of Zeus Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer:SJ Higbee Have you read this book? I was delighted to see this one on Kindle as I had wanted to attend the book launch, but simply been too ill. Now that I have got ahead with my Netgalley arcs, …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tachyon Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Every now and then something comes along that reminds me of my love for short stories. Novels are still my go too, especially when it comes to writing reviews, but a good short story is …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Berkley Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn’t forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Sinister Grin Press Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? People of the Sun, by Jason Parent is a first contact book, with aliens landing on Earth. First contact stories come with a lot of built in tropes: how the …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Titan Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael Griffiths Have you read this book? Netherspace by Andrew Lane and Nigel Foster is a Science Fiction novel with a huge imaginative scope. These folks bring in the concept of Netherspace, which is a method of traveling through …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? I enjoyed the first book, The Outliers–see my review here–and was pleased to see this offering on NetGalley so that I could find out what happens next…. Wylie may have escaped the …
Genre: Weird Western Publisher: Third Flatiron Publishing Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Third Flatiron Press has been putting fun little anthologies for a while now. Principa Ponderosa, edited by Juliana Rew, is the 18th Third Flatiron anthology. I’ve read numerous other and found them all, like Principia Ponderosa, to …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Del Ray Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee I loved Moon’s Vatta’s War and The Serrano Legacy series–see my review here. So when Himself picked this one up as an Easter pressie, I was thrilled. Summoned to the home planet of her family’s business empire, …
Genre: Alternate History Publisher: Penguin Press Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? I’m wasn’t sure how to classify this one. It’s fiction, and speculative, but it’s not fantastic speculation, if that makes any sense. I decided to go with alternate history; a story …
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? If you have read Rebels of the Lamp Book 1, and you plan to, you might want to avoid this review, since it will reveal some of the outcome of the …
Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Pocket Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? Last year, I plunged into the tail-end of this series, Unraveled–see my review here. So when I saw Snared was available, I immediately requested the arc from Netgalley, keen for another slice …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Gollancz Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Sj Higbee Have you read this book? I enjoy my whodunits and I love science fiction, so it was a no-brainer that I would request an arc for this far future murder mystery. After a five year sabbatical following the …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tor Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee I saw the wonderful retro cover on Netgalley and couldn’t resist, particularly as I have read and enjoyed the first four books in the Coyote series – see my review of Spindrift. It was an age of miracles. …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? After attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? Last year I was blown away by The Star-Touched Queen, a YA fantasy with a strong eastern flavor that swept me away to another place and time. Indeed, it made my top …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Hydra Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer:SJ Higbee Have you read this book? Last year I read and reviewed Titanborn, a rollicking space opera set in the far reaches of the solar system, charting the adventures of Malcolm Graves, who is a fixer for the corporation controlling …
Genre: YA Horror Publisher: Disney Hyperion Published: 2016 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? It’s hard to read books like this as an adult. Although some might consider Juvenile and Young Adult as synonymous, I don’t. I see young adult as my 15 or 16 and up. This more appropriately …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Titan Publishing Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael Griffiths Have you read this book? Off Rock, by Kieran Shea is a Science Fiction novel with the beginning 98% of the novel taking place on an asteroid being mined by the main characters. Jimmy is a grunt …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Freedom Fox Press Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? Hero Lost, is a Fantasy Anthology edited by Alex J. Cavanaugh. This anthology has 12 short stories which all revolve around mostly traditional fantasy themes. This book comes out of …
