Interesting Books
(Descriptions
from Goodreads)
Blood
and Feathers by Lou Morgan, review
at My
Favorite Books
"What's
the first thing you think of when I say 'angel'?" asked Mallory. Alice
shrugged. "I don't know... guns?" Alice isn't having the best of days. She was late
for work, she missed her bus, and now she's getting rained on. What she doesn't
know is that her day's about to get worse: the epic, grand-scale kind of worse
that comes from the arrival of two angels who claim everything about her
life is a lie.
The war
between the angels and the Fallen is escalating; the age-old balance is
tipping, and innocent civilians are getting caught in the cross-fire. If the
balance is to be restored, the angels must act - or risk the Fallen taking
control. Forever.
That’s where Alice comes in. Hunted by the Fallen and guided by Mallory
- a disgraced angel with a drinking problem and a whole load of secrets - Alice
will learn the truth about her own history… and why the angels want to send her
to hell.
The
Secret Keeper by Kate Morton, review
at Fantasy
Book Critic
1959
England. Laurel Nicolson is sixteen years old, dreaming alone in her childhood
tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She
spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her
mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.
Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded
actress, living in London. She returns to Green Acres for Dorothy’s ninetieth
birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by memories and questions she has not
thought about for decades. She decides to find out the truth about the events
of that summer day and lay to rest her own feelings of guilt. One photograph,
of her mother and a woman Laurel has never met, called Vivian, is her first
clue.
Year
Zero by Rob Reid, review at My
Bookish Ways
An
alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet.
Worse,
they were lawyering up. . . .
Low-level
entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter,
when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But
Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And
boy, do they have news.
The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on
humanity’s music ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), when American pop songs
first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic
society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The
resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans
suddenly own everything—and the aliens are not amused.
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews
In a Fix
by Linda Grimes, review at Starmetal
Oak Reviews
Mage’s
Blood by David Hair, review at Staffer’s
Book Review
Redshirts by John Scalzi, review at Fantasy Literature
Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan, review at Janicu’s
Book Blog
Giveaways
Year Zero
by Rob Reid at My
Bookish Ways
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