Sue's Saturday Suggestions #38

Interesting Books

(Descriptions from Goodreads)

The Grim Company by Luke Scull, reviews at Fantasy Book Critic & The Wertzone

The grey granite walls of Dorminia rise to three times the height of a man, surrounding the city on all sides save for the south, where the Broken Sea begins. The stone is three-foot thick at its weakest point and can withstand all but the heaviest assault. The Crimson Watch patrol the streets even as Salazar's Mindhawks patrol the skies. 

The Grey City was not always so. But something has changed. Something has broken at its heart. Perhaps the wild magic of the dead Gods has corrupted Dorminia's Magelord, as it has the earth itself. Or perhaps this iron-fisted tyranny is the consequence of a lifetime of dark deeds...

Still, pockets of resistance remain. When two formidable Highlanders save the life of a young rebel, it proves the foundation for an unlikely fellowship. A fellowship united against tyranny, but composed of self-righteous outlaws, crippled turncoats and amoral mercenaries. A grim company. But with the world entering an Age of Ruin, this is not a time of heroes...

Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente, review at Far Beyond Reality

From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one the best known fairy tales of all time. In the novella Six-Gun Snow White, Valente transports the title's heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West where Coyote is just as likely to be found as the seven dwarves.

A plain-spoken, appealing narrator relates the history of her parents—a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him. With her mother's death in childbirth, so begins a heroine's tale equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, readers will be enchanted by this story at once familiar and entirely new.

I have listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS Books Page for links to more reviews:

The Archived by Victoria Schwab, review at The Book Smugglers

Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman, review at SF Signal

Nexus by Ramez Naam, review at My Bookish Ways

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, reviews at Fantasy Book Critic, Novel Revelries & Parajunkee

Written in Red by Anne Bishop, review at The Midnight Garden

Giveaways

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan at Bastard Books