Book Review: Naomi Novik’s Throne of Jade
The Chinese are furious that such a low, common soldier has partnered up with Temeraire, and they’ll do anything to break them up…even murder on the high seas.
Genre: science fiction
Book Review: Marissa Meyer’s Winter
The hated stepmother, Queen Levana, tortures the Princess Winter to the point she’ll ally with Cinder and her friends in this finale to The Lunar Chronicles series.
Book Review: Brandon Sanderson’s Shadows of Self
Industrialization is leading to massive unrest enhanced by corruption and a long-term conspiracy coming to a head in Mistborn. Strife only Wax, Wayne, and Marasi can stop.
Book Review: Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon
It’s a baptism of fire for Laurence and Temeraire, His Majesty’s Dragon, as they soar into aerial combat in the Napoleonic Wars.
Book Review: Gail Carriger’s Prudence
Lady Prudence finally has an outlet for her sneaky energy, and she and her best friend, Primose Tunstell sail off to India to investigate tea plantations. They think.
Book Review: Gail Carriger’s Blameless
A comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking in which Lady Maccon is the scandal of London and flees to Italy.
Book Review: John Varley’s Dark Lightning
Jubal Broussard is never wrong, but a small group of mutineers believe he is when they rise up against Captain Travis on the Rolling Thunder. It’ll take Jubal’s daughters to fix it.
Book Review: Marissa Meyer’s Cress
Even in the future. there are damsels in distress…and Cress needs rescuing from her “tower” prison, but it’s a plan that goes badly awry. Now Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder are the world’s only hope.
Book Review: Eoin Colfer’s The Forever Man
It takes centuries, but Garrick survives back to 1899 London to take revenge upon his assistant, Riley. Only his plans go awry and they and Chevie land back in 1647.
Book Review: Marissa Meyer’s Scarlet
Cinder is trying to break out of prison—even if she succeeds, she’ll be the world’s most wanted fugitive while Scarlet is desperate to find her missing grand-mère.