Interesting Books
(Descriptions
from Goodreads)
The
Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E.B. Hudspeth, reviews at Impressions
Of A Reader & The
Book Smugglers
Philadelphia,
the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages—and
home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber,
young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia’s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where
he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world’s most celebrated
mythological beasts—mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs—were in fact the
evolutionary ancestors of humankind?
The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional
biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through
his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious
disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black’s magnum opus: The
Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray’s Anatomy for mythological
beasts—dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus—all rendered in meticulously
detailed anatomical illustrations.
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews:
After
The Fall, Before The Fall, During The Fall by Nancy Kress, review at Fantasy
Literature
The Fifth
Wave by Rick Yancy, review at Cuddlebuggery
Promise
of Blood by Brian McClellan, review at Fantasy
Faction
The
Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson, reviews at Far
Beyond Reality, On
Starships & Dragonwings & The
Book Smugglers
Throne of Glass by Sara J. Maas, review at Vampire
Book Club
Wolfhound
Century by Peter Higgins, review at A
Fantastical Librarian
Giveaways
The
Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu at Bastard
Books
Author Interviews
Wesley
Chu at Bastard
Books
Brandon
Sanderson at The
Book Smugglers
Guest Posts By Authors
The
Many Faces of an Alien by Wesley Chu at A
Dribble of Ink
Special Needs In Strange Worlds at
Bookworm Blues
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