Book Review: Lilith Saintcrow’s The Red Plague Affair
Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime to the Queen, must find the doctor who created a powerful weapon. And it will distract her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, from pursuing his nemesis.
Genre: science fiction
Book Review: Gail Carriger’s Curtsies & Conspiracies
Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests?
Book Review: Lilith Saintcrow’s The Iron Wyrm Affair
It’s a steampunk Sherlock-Holmes-meets-James Bond as Emma Bannon and Archibald Clare battle conspiracies and treason with magic while dodging assassins.
Book Review: Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game
Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games, but he’s a genetic experiment the military needs to be successful against the Buggers. A success that will also overcome his plotting brothers.
Book Review: Marie Lu’s Legend
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June’s brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias’s death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.
Book Review: Nora Roberts’ Time and Again
From a century far in the future, Caleb Hornblower finds a timeless love in Liberty Stone. As does the brother who comes to rescue him.
Book Review: Taylor Anderson’s Storm Surge
As USS Walker is repaired and Matt Reddy healing from his wounds, planning begins for a bold raid on the very heart of the Grik Empire. But time is running out for the Alliance army.
Book Review: Gini Koch’s Alien in the House
The A-Cs have been outed, ACE is missing, and murder and mayhem are served up at an important dinner party ending with more problems than just a dead Congressman.
Book Review: Alexandra Bracken’s The Darkest Minds
Ruby turned ten and her parents turned her over to a brutal government rehabilitation camp. She had survived the disease killing most of America’s children, but she became something they couldn’t control. Now 16, Ruby is desperate to disappear, to avoid the people who want to use her.
Book Review: David Weber’s Beginnings
Five short stories in the military science fiction anthology that is sixth in the Worlds of Honor series, a part of the Honorverse.