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Bookburners, Season Two

September 16, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: After battling back the demonic invasion of the Vatican, the Bookburners are back on the job of tracking down and stopping magic where it occurs. But with the Orb malfunctioning and magic clearly on the rise – not to mention those pesky technocultists planning something awful – the Team must take greater risks with more uncertain rewards. Whether they as a team – or the Society as a whole – will adapt and survive is anyone’s guess… The […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction • Tags: Amal El-Mohtar, Andrea Phillips, Bookburners, Bookburners Season Two, Brian Francis Slattery, Fantasy, Fiction, Margaret Dunlap, Max Gladstone, Mur Lafferty, Season Two, Serial Box, serial box publishing, Serial Fiction, Serial Literature, serialbox, serialbox publishing, Xe Sands

“The End of the Day”: Bookburners S02E13

September 15, 2016 by Drew

Bookburners S02E13: Secret Wars by Max Gladstone 9.14.16 5 out of 5 When We Last Left Our Heroes…: After Team Three defeated the Network in Belfast, Asanti was arrested for witchcraft upon returning to Rome. Case of the Week: A legal case this time: the trial of Archivist Asanti. The future of the Society hangs in the balance. How It Went: I’ll say this: if ever I imagined an avenging angel, I think it’d probably look like Asanti in the Society courtroom. She’s regal, serene, beautiful […]

Categories: Features, Recaps • Tags: Bookburners, Fantasy, Features, Fiction, Max Gladstone, Recap, Recaps, Serial, Serial Box, serial box publishing, serialbox, serialbox publishing

“Incognita”: Bookburners S02E06

July 28, 2016 by Drew

Bookburners S02E06: Incognita by Max Gladstone 7.27.16 5 out of 5 When We Last Left Our Heroes…: A kinda off-the-books job led by Asanti to pay off a debt to the Maitress also resulted in a tangible lead on fixing the Orb. But was the disruption to the team worth it? Case of the Week: Liam and Grace go to Shanghai in search of an artifact – and their histories. How It Went: Having just come back from two weeks’ vacation (just in California, not another […]

Categories: Features, Recaps • Tags: Bookburners, China, Fantasy, Fiction, Incognita, Literature, Max Gladstone, Recaps, Serial Box, serial box publishing, Serial Fiction, Serial Literature, serialbox, serialbox publishing, Shanghai

“Creepy Town”: Bookburners S02E01

June 23, 2016 by Drew

Bookburners S02E01: Creepy Town by Max Gladstone 6.22.16 4.5 out of 5 When We Last Left Our Heroes…: Sal Brooks was an ordinary NYPD cop before she came across a particularly odd scene involving her brother, Perry, and a possessed book. She joined Team Three of the Societas Librium Occultorum and began to help track down magical objects across the world. After a particularly nasty possession and the ensuing fracas, darkness inside the Society has been cast out and they’re all […]

Categories: Features, Recaps • Tags: Bookburners, Creepy Town, Fantasy, Features, Max Gladstone, Recap, Serial, Serial Box, serial box publishing, serialbox, serialbox publishing

The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, Season One

May 4, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: In 1970, the Cold War is in full swing and Prague, on the edge of the Iron Curtain, is one of the hotspots of covert action. But Gabe Pritchard, CIA officer, discovers a whole other secret war – one between sorcerers, of Ice and Flame – and finds that allegiances aren’t so clear when magic gets involved. With a major op on the horizon, he and his KGB counterpart Tanya Morozova must find a way to work […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Spy • Tags: audiobook, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Cold War, Fantasy, Fiction, Ian Tregillis, Lindsay Smith, Magic, Max Gladstone, Michael Swanwick, Politics, Prague, Russia, Serial Novel, serialbox, serialbox publishing, the witch who came in from the cold, USSR

Bookburners, Season One

January 13, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: After her brother nearly dies from calling up a demon, NYPD Detective Sal Brooks joins an oddball team based out of the Vatican and charged with hunting down magical relics. But even the Vatican isn’t necessarily safe from evil… The Review: So let’s talk first about the structure of this here thing. SerialBox Publishing is taking Mark Z. Danielewski’s idea for The Familiar (a reading experience that mirrors the experience of a really great TV series) and doubling down: a […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction • Tags: Action, Adventure, audiobook, Book Review, Book Reviews, Bookburners, Books, Brian Francis Slattery, Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Margaret Dunlap, Max Gladstone, Mur Lafferty, Religion, Reviews, Serial, Serial Box, Serial Novel, Xe Sands

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