Holy shit, a post! The folks at Crown have been kind enough to offer up a copy of The Fold by Peter Clines for giveaway. I really enjoyed Ex-Heroes, and I’ve found that Clines has the sort of prose that may not be beautiful akin to Kay or Doerr, but it’s equally addicting in that unputdownable sense.…
Hic sunt leones. When I finished Pierce Brown’s debut Red Rising last year, apart from being stunned by how good it was, I sat still and contemplated how it was labeled as a young adult book. YA is one of those genres that has never worked for me, right there alongside urban fantasy. Red Rising had the…
My sophomore year in blogging was an interesting one. At the tail end of last year, I ran into a wall that took me a fair while to climb over. I kept reading, albeit at a slower pace, but I struggled to piece together reviews for the books I read and my blog stagnated. Interning…
When I finish a book, I usually spend several days staring at my various collections, musing that I have nothing good to read. Thing is, I have too many good books to read. This list will be an attempt to give me a rough guideline to limit my aimlessness following every book. Do you plan…
Last year, Will McIntosh’s social science novel Love Minus Eighty took many genre readers by surprise in its exploration of human feelings. McIntosh changed things up this time around with Defenders, a novel about an alien invasion of Earth. An alien race known as the Luyten have invaded Earth, wreaking havoc throughout the planet with their heat guns,…
