Interesting Books
(Descriptions
from Goodreads)
The
Heresy Within by Rob J. Hayes,
review at Fantasy
Book Critic
Thanquil
Darkheart is an Arbiter of the Inquisition, a witch hunter tasked with hunting
down and purging heretics. Thanquil Darkheart is also something else,
expendable. When the God-Emperor of Sarth tells Thanquil there is a traitor
operating among the highest echelon of the Inquisition he knows he has no
choice but to sail to the city of Chade and follow the Emperor's single lead.
The
Black Thorn is a murderer, a thug, a thief and worse but he's best known for
the killing of six Arbiters. These days he travels with a crew of six of the
most dangerous sell-swords in the wilds. After a job well done they find
themselves on the run from the law once again but the boss has good news; a new
job, the biggest any of them have ever pulled. First, however, they need to
evade capture long enough to secure travel to the free city of Chade.
Jezzet
Vel'urn is a Blademaster; a swords-woman of prodigious skill but she knows that
for a woman like her in the wilds there are two ways out of most situations;
fight or screw. Truth is, all too often for Jezzet's liking, it comes down to a
combination of the two. Jezzet is chased half-way across the wilds by a
vengeful warlord until she makes it to the free city of Chade. Instead of
sanctuary, however, all she finds are guards waiting to turn her over for some
quick gold.
Life
After Life by Kate Atkinson, review
at Fantasy
Literature
On a
cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy
English banker and his wife. Sadly, she dies before she can draw her first
breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty
wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as
she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways. Clearly history
(and Kate Atkinson) have plans for her: In Ursula rests nothing less than the
fate of civilization.
Wildly inventive, darkly comic, startlingly poignant — this is
Kate Atkinson at her absolute best, playing with time and history, telling a
story that is breathtaking for both its audacity and its endless satisfactions.
Vegan
Zombie Apocalypse by Wol-vriey,
review at A
Beauty In Ruins
In the
post-apocalypse worlderness, zombies rule the earth. They're allergic to meat,
and brains literally make them explode. Zombies now eat blood potatoes,
parasitic tubers grown in the flesh of humancows corralled in maximum security
farms.
The
necros, barbaric human nomads travelling the worlderness in floating villages,
worship the zombies. The necros both eat the zombies, and wear clothes made
from them; they live in houses built of bricks of undead flesh. They also keep
zombies as sex slaves.
Two
fugitives meet in the ancient ruins of Texas. The first is Soil 15-f, a
womancow who's escaped her farm a week before she's due to be killed and her
blood potato crop harvested. The second fugitive is Able Kane, former head
necros food technician, now sentenced to death for heresy. But Soil is no
ordinary humancow. Unknown to herself, she's the vegan zombie agricultural revolution,
and the zombies desperately want her back. And the necros equally desperately
want Able Kane dead. He's fled with a forbidden discovery which will reshape
the world for the worse if used. And Able is just hardheaded/misguided enough
to use it. With android zombinators and the head necros assassin (Able's
ex-girlfriend Morphia) after them, Soil and Able Kane have no choice but to
climb the lemon tree to Haeven, residence of the zombie god Necro. And by
anyone's reckoning, Soil and Able Kane are the two people in the worlderness
who should never have been let into Haeven.
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews:
Blade Song by J.C. Daniels, review at One
Good Book
The
Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken, review at Smash
Attack Reads
Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines, review at Fantasy
Book Critic
The
Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu, reviews at A
Fantastical Librarian, Fantasy
Literature & Over
the Effing Rainbow
The
Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E.B. Hudspeth, review at
On
Starships and Dragonwings
The
Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson, review at Fantasy
Faction
Shadow
and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, review at On
Starships and Dragonwings
The Taken by Vicki Pettersson, review at Gizmo’s
Book Reviews
Written
in Red by Anne Bishop, review at Vampire
Book Club
Author Interviews
Leigh
Bardugo at Cuddlebuggery
Emma
Newman at Over
the Effing Rainbow
Guest Posts By Authors
We
Have Always Fought: Challenging The ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative by
Kameron Hurley at A
Dribble of Ink
Special Needs In Strange Worlds at
Bookworm Blues
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