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Roundup: February 2017

March 1, 2017 by Drew

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Rating: 3 out of 5 The Short Version: Locke Lamora is a young thief at the head of a band of merry misfits known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Alternating between tales of his rise to the head of the Bastards and an ongoing story in Camorr that starts as a simple job but quickly expands to be far more deadly, it’s time to meet Locke Lamora… The Review: I had the highest of hopes for this […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Spy • Tags: All Hail God Mammon, All the Old Knives, CIA, Comic Books, Douglas Preston, Elizabeth Strout, Fantasy, Fiction, Gentlemen Bastards, Horror, Jonathan Hickman, Lincoln Child, Literature, My Name is Lucy Barton, myths, Neil Gaiman, norse mythology, Olen Steinhauer, Pendergast, Preston & Child, Review Roundup, Roundup, Scott Lynch, Spy, Storytelling, The Black Monday Murders, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Obsidian Chamber, The Tournament of Books 2017, Thriller, Tomm Coker

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Six of Crows / Crooked Kingdom

December 12, 2016 by Drew

SIX OF CROWS Rating: 5 out of 5 The Short Version: After a weaponized form of magic enhancement is discovered, a young rogue puts together a team to pull off a daring heist – from the most impenetrable fortress on the planet. This, assuming they don’t kill each other first… The Review: Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy passed me by, to some extent. I knew it was out there and was intrigued by the concept, but it’d gotten some rough marks from friends […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction • Tags: Adventure, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Crooked Kingdom, Fantasy, Fiction, Grisha, Leigh Bardugo, Literature, review, Reviews, Six of Crows, Thriller, Young Adult

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Thunderbird (Miriam Black #4)

December 5, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Miriam Black wants out. She wants out of her curse and to have a live that might, in some circles, be considered “normal” – or at least something more normal than the one she’s living. But when the woman who might be able to help her turns out to be working with domestic terrorists, shit takes a dark turn even for Miriam – and Fate, it seems, has plans for her whether she likes it or not. The […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction • Tags: Advance Review, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Chuck Wendig, Fantasy, Fiction, Miriam Black, review, Saga Press, Thriller, Thunderbird

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Roundup, November 2016

November 30, 2016 by Drew

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers Rating: 4 out of 5 The Short Version: Optimus Yarnspinner, the legendary author, recounts to us his earliest adventure – a visit to Bookholm, a city of books and book-related people. But what begins simply as a quest to find an author ends up putting Optimus on the run through the catacombs of the city, fearing for his very life! WIll he survive? Will he ever write anything? Of course – the fun is […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature • Tags: Belgium, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Chris Holm, Dirty Snow, Fantasy, Fiction, George Simenon, Historical Fiction, Illustrated, Literature, Michael Hendricks, Nihilism, Reading, review, Short Stories, The City of Dreaming Books, Thriller, Walter Moers, World War II, Zamonia

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Trigger Mortis

November 28, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Shortly after the events of Goldfinger, James Bond is back in London (with Pussy Galore still in tow) – but not for long. He’s quickly dispatched to the Nürburgring to keep an eye on an English racer who is being targeted by the Russians, only to discover a larger plot in the works between the Russians and a Korean scientist to sabotage a rocket test. With an intrepid Secret Service agent by his side, Bond must stop a disaster […]

Categories: Fiction, Spy • Tags: Anthony Horowitz, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Ian Fleming, James Bond, review, Reviews, Spy, Thriller, Trigger Mortis

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Roundup, October 2016

October 31, 2016 by Drew

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn 3 out of 5 The Short Version: A young woman on the margins, working as a fraudulent psychic, lands a gig investigating a creepy house and creepy child for another woman. What ensues is a classic gothic battle for sanity. The Review: Flynn’s voice is unmistakeable and it was great to hear it again, seeing as it’s been awhile since Gone Girl and we’re likely to have to wait a while longer yet for her next […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry • Tags: A Head Full of Ghosts, A Thousand Mornings, A Visit to October Country, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Contagion, Dana I. Wolff, Disease, Exorcism, Fiction, Gillian Flynn, Heidi Julavits, Horror, Literature, Mary Oliver, Metafiction, Mikhail Bulgakov, North Brother Island, Novella, Paul Tremblay, Peace, Poetry, Psychics, Religion, Review Roundup, Reviews, Roundup, Russia, Speculative, Stalin, The Devil, The Grownup, The Master and Margarita, The Prisoner of Hell Gate, The Vanishers, Thriller, Typhoid Mary

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Crimson Shore (Pendergast #15)

October 17, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Intrigued by the prospect of a low-key case (and the promise of a very rare bottle of wine as payment), Pendergast and Constance head to the Massachusetts coast. What they uncover there, however, is a dark scene from the town’s history – and an even darker scene playing out in the present… The Review: One of my favorite things about the Pendergast series was, especially in the early going, the willingness to tightrope along the line of the […]

Categories: Fiction, Mystery • Tags: A Visit to October Country, A. X. L. Pendergast, Aloysius Pendergast, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Constance Greene, Crime, Crimson Shore, Douglas Preston, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Fiction, Horror, Lincoln Child, Mystery, review, Reviews, Thriller

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Roundup, September 2016

September 30, 2016 by Drew

James Bond: Vargr by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters 4 out of 5 The Short Version: After a revenge mission in Helsinki, Bond returns to London and is handed a case from his fallen comrade’s workload. A new drug has hit English shores and his job is to break up the trafficking operation – but what should be a simple in and out job turns out to be anything but. The Review: The idea of Warren Ellis taking on James […]

Categories: Fiction, Roundup • Tags: 007, A Chooseable Path Adventure, Action, Choose Your Own Adventure, Classics, Family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Hamlet, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reed, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Jason Masters, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Literature, Niels Lyhne, Philosophy, Ramona Ausubel, Riverhead, Ryan North, Shakespeare, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, Spy, Thriller, Tiina Nunnally, To Be or Not to Be, Transhumanism, Translation, Vargr, Warren Ellis, William Shakespeare

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Red Right Hand (Michael Hendricks #2)

August 17, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: When a viral video of a terror attack against the Golden Gate Bridge reveals a federal witness against The Council long thought dead to in fact be alive, Agent Charlie Thompson faces a difficult decision. The FBI’s priority is catching the terrorists before they strike again – but Thompson knows that Frank Segretti is a dead man for real if she doesn’t help. So she calls in the only person she knows can help her out: Michael […]

Categories: Fiction, Thriller • Tags: Advance Review, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Chris F. Holm, Chris Holm, Fiction, Michael Hendricks, Red Right Hand, review, Reviews, Thriller

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