The Native Star by M.K. Hobson – review
Emily Edwards, the local witch in Lost Pine, has managed to get herself into some unexpected trouble. With a love charm gone wrong, rampaging zombies, and a magic-nullifying stone embedded in her palm, she finds herself with more problems than she knows how to handle. Add to that the need to travel cross-country with an [...]
The House on Durrow Street by Galen Beckett – review
Ivy, now Mrs. Quent, and her sisters are now ensconced in their father’s house on Durrow Street in this follow up to The Magicians and Mrs. Quent. Ivy and Mr. Quent are working on repairing and renovating the house and find out more about the house and her father along the way. Additionally, Mr. Quent’s [...]
Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning – review
MacKayla Lane is a very pretty, very shallow girl. She loves her family, and she lives a fairly typical American life. She doesn’t have much direction in her life, content to tend bar and maintain things just the way they are. Then she gets a call on her cell phone informing her that her sister [...]
Dragon Soul by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett – review
Dragon Soul is the third book in the series by the writing team of Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett, the first two being Havemercy and Shadow Magic. In the internal timeline of the story, Dragon Soul falls in between the first two books and brings back two of the most favored characters from the first book, [...]
Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton – review
This book review is proving to be a real challenge. Mark Charan Newton has penned a book so rich that trying to do justice to its many themes, characters and story arcs is taxing my writing ability in a whole new way. In fact, it’s akin to trying to review five separate but connected novels [...]
Urban Fantasy Mini Round-up: Ilona Andrews, Devon Monk, Lynn Flewelling
Series readers don’t necessarily need a large build-up in their reviews. What they look for (well, what I look for and presume others do, too) is a comparison of the latest volume to the rest of the series and whether their favorite characters or subplots are featured. Since the following three books are later books [...]
Mind Games by Carolyn Crane – review
Mind Games is very much unlike most of today’s urban fantasy fiction. The lack of fight scenes, hideous monsters, miraculous magic, and a hard and true but bitter protagonist with the heart of gold, may cause some potential readers to move on to other, more action-packed titles. Justine Jones is a hypochondriac. She knows it, [...]
The Conqueror’s Shadow by Ari Marmell – review
The Conqueror’s Shadow by Ari Marmell will be released by Spectra on February 23rd of 2010, and after reading it I am a bit conflicted. How can I be conflicted about a book that I stayed up way past my normal bedtime to read? How can I be conflicted about a book that I took to [...]
Book Review – Palimpsest
Between dreaming and waking, beyond the end of the world and every space in between, lies the city of Palimpsest. There is only one way to get there. Those who achieve it are marked by a section of the city’s map, tattooed onto their skin after a single orgasmic night. It is a city of wonder, of color, and most importantly . . .
Contest Warning Bell – Perfect Circle by Carlos J. Cortes (5 copies!)
That is the sound of opportunity! This is just a heads-up post letting you know that one of our several contests is about to end. 5 winners of Perfect Circle by Carlos J. Cortes will be named tomorrow, and you have one more day to enter! For more information on Perfect Circle and to enter [...]
Contest – Perfect Circle by Carlos J. Cortes (5 copies!)
More, more, more! Another chance to win some free reading from the BSC! Today we have 5 copies of Perfect Circle by Carlos J. Cortes. This was released in November of last year by Bantam Spectra. One of our contributors recently interviewed Cortes . . .
Book Review – Nova Swing
Author: M. John Harrison Publisher: Bantam Spectra Books Cover Artist: Stephen Youll Binding: Paperback Publication Date: Dec. 30, 2008 One expects a lot from a science fiction novel that’s won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2007 (the hardcover edition came out then), the Philip K. Dick Award, and was a finalist to win the [...]
