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Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

Posted November 6, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix Published by Gollancz on September 22, 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult Pages: 416 Format: Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn’t get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops. Susan’s search for her father begins with her mother’s possibly misremembered or misspelt […]

Blog Tour / Review: The God Game by Danny Tobey

Posted January 11, 2020 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The God Game by Danny Tobey Published by Gollancz on January 7, 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction Pages: 496 Format: E-Arc, Hardback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads You are invited!Come inside and play with G.O.D.Bring your friends!It’s fun!But remember the rules. Win and ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.™ Lose, you die! With those words, Charlie and his friends enter the G.O.D. Game, a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes it’s God. Through their phone-screens and high-tech glasses, the teens’ realities blur with a virtual world of creeping vines, smoldering torches, runes, glyphs, gods, and mythical creatures. When they accomplish a mission, the game rewards them with expensive tech, revenge on high-school tormentors, and cash flowing from ATMs. Slaying a hydra and drawing a bloody pentagram as payment to a Greek god seem harmless at first. Fun even. But then the threatening messages […]

Blog Tour / Review: Angel Mage by Garth Nix

Posted October 12, 2019 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Angel Mage by Garth Nix Published by Gollancz on September 30, 2019 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 560 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking no more than nineteen, and once again renews her single-minded quest to be united with her lover, Palleniel, the archangel of Ystara. A seemingly impossible quest, but Liliath is one of the greatest practitioners of angelic magic to have ever lived, summoning angels and forcing them to do her bidding. Liliath knew that most of the inhabitants of Ystara died from the Ash Blood plague or were transformed into beastlings, and she herself led the survivors who fled into neighboring Sarance. Now she learns that angels shun the Ystaran’s descendants. If they are touched […]

Review: Empress of all Seasons by Emiko Jean

Posted April 18, 2019 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

Empress of all Seasons by Emiko Jean Published by Gollancz on November 6, 2018 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 384 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Fairyloot, Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads In a palace of illusions, nothing is what it seems. Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace’s enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Marry the prince. All are eligible to compete—all except yōkai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human emperor is determined to enslave and destroy. Mari has spent a lifetime training to become empress. Winning should be easy. And it would be, if she weren’t hiding a dangerous secret. Mari is a yōkai with the ability to transform into a terrifying monster. If discovered, her life will be forfeit. As she struggles to keep her true identity hidden, Mari’s fate collides with that of Taro, the prince who has no desire to inherit the imperial throne, and Akira, a half-human, half-yōkai outcast. Torn between duty and love, loyalty and betrayal, […]

Blog Tour / Review: Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

Posted March 17, 2019 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Series: White Space #1 Published by Gollancz on March 5, 2019 Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction Pages: 512 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. She is wrong. A routine salvage mission uncovers evidence of a terrible crime and relics of powerful ancient technology. Haimey and her small crew run afoul of pirates at the outer limits of the Milky Way, and find themselves on the run and in possession of universe-changing information. When authorities prove corrupt, Haimey realizes that she is the only one who can protect her galaxy-spanning civilization from the implications of this ancient technology—and the revolutionaries who want to use it for terror and war. Her quest will take her careening from the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s core to the infinite, empty […]

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