Saturday, October 20, 2012

Sue's Saturday Suggestions #18



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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