Interesting Books
Book
of Iron by Elizabeth Bear, review at
Fantasy
Cafe
Subterranean
Press is proud to announce Book of Iron, the standalone prequel to Elizabeth
Bear’s acclaimed novella, "Bone and Jewel Creatures".
Bijou
the Artificer is a Wizard of Messaline, the City of Jackals. She and her
partner—and rival—Kaulas the Necromancer, along with the martial Prince Salih, comprise
the Bey's elite band of trouble-solving
adventurers.
But
Messaline is built on the ruins of a still more ancient City of Jackals. So
when two foreign Wizards and a bard from the mysterious western isles cross the
desert in pursuit of a sorcerer intent on plundering the deadly artifacts of
lost Erem, Bijou and her companions must join their hunt.
The quest will take them through strange passages, beneath the
killing light of alien suns, with the price of failure the destruction of every
land.
Fortune’s
Pawn by Rachel Bach, reviews at Fantasy
Book Critic, Far
Beyond Reality & SFF
World
Devi
Morris isn't your average mercenary. She has plans. Big ones. And a ton of
ambition. It's a combination that's going to get her killed one day - but not
just yet.
That
is, until she just gets a job on a tiny trade ship with a nasty reputation for
surprises. The Glorious Fool isn't misnamed: it likes to get into trouble, so
much so that one year of security work under its captain is equal to five years
everywhere else. With odds like that, Devi knows she's found the perfect way to
get the jump on the next part of her Plan. But the Fool doesn't give up its
secrets without a fight, and one year on this ship might be more than even Devi
can handle.
If Sigouney Weaver in Alien met Starbuck in Battlestar
Galactica, you'd get Deviana Morris -- a hot new mercenary earning her
stripes to join an elite fighting force. Until one alien bite throws her whole
future into jeopardy.
The
Golden City by J. Kathleen Cheney,
review at Bookworm
Blues
For
two years, Oriana Paredes has been a spy among the social elite of the Golden
City, reporting back to her people, the sereia, sea folk banned from the
city’s shores....
When
her employer and only confidante decides to elope, Oriana agrees to accompany
her to Paris. But before they can depart, the two women are abducted and left
to drown. Trapped beneath the waves, Oriana’s heritage allows her to survive
while she is forced to watch her only friend die.
Vowing
vengeance, Oriana crosses paths with Duilio Ferreira—a police consultant who
has been investigating the disappearance of a string of servants from the
city’s wealthiest homes. Duilio also has a secret: He is a seer and his gifts
have led him to Oriana.
Bound by their secrets, not trusting each other completely yet
having no choice but to work together, Oriana and Duilio must expose a twisted
plot of magic so dark that it could cause the very fabric of history to come
undone....
Two
Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone,
review at Fantasy
Book Critic
The
new novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts
Dead.
Shadow
demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb
Altemoc — casual gambler and professional risk manager — to cleanse the water
for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime,
Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, crazy Mal, who easily outpaces
him.
But
Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about
when he discovers that his father — the last priest of the old gods and leader
of the True Quechal terrorists — has broken into his home and is wanted in
connection to the attacks on the water supply.
From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and
chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They
sleep on water, they dance in fire... and all the while the Twin Serpents
slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry.
I have
listed other titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews.
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