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Mini Review Round Up! 5 YA books I've enjoyed recently.

Life has been a little crazy over the last few months, and while I’ve been reading ALL of the books, I haven’t had a chance to write about any of them. That makes me sad. So, below are some of the YA books I’ve read and enjoyed recently. Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz World War Two has shattered Valka’s homeland of Russia, and Valka is determined to help the effort. She knows her skills as a…

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Blog Tour: IT CAME FROM THE DEEP by Maria Lewis

Blog Tour: IT CAME FROM THE DEEP by @moviemazz

If anything can drag me from my unintentional hiatus, it’s going to be the inimitable Maria Lewis and her brilliantly horrifying new book. In anticipation of It Came From the Deep, Maria has made my day by putting together a list of other brilliantly horrifying things. (more…)

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Book Review: DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by Seanan McGuire

Book Review: DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by @seananmcguire

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. This is the story of what happened first… Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. Jillian was her…

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Book Review: RED SISTER by Mark Lawrence

Book Review: RED SISTER by @Mark__Lawrence

I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin. At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow…

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Book Review: THE SECRET SCIENCE OF MAGIC by Melissa Keil

Book Review: THE SECRET SCIENCE OF MAGIC by @MissMisch77

A captivating novel about two extraordinary teens, and the unsolvable problem of life after high school. Sophia is smart, like genius-calculator-brain smart. But there are some things no amount of genius can prepare you for, and the messiness of real life is one of them. When everything she knows is falling apart, how can she crack the puzzle of what to do with her life? Joshua spends his time…

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Book Review: WHO'S AFRAID TOO? by Maria Lewis

Book Review: WHO'S AFRAID TOO? by @moviemazz

Tommi Grayson: all bark, all bite . . . and now she’s BACK! After the worst family reunion in history, Tommi needed some space. She’s spent the last few weeks trying to understand her heritage – the one that comes with a side order of fur – as well as learning about her Maori ancestry and how she can connect to it. But she can only escape for so long. When an unspeakable evil returns, Tommi will…

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Book Review: CROOKED KINGDOM by Leigh Bardugo

Book Review: CROOKED KINGDOM by @LBardugo @DateABook

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think they’d survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they’re right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and left crippled by the kidnapping of a valuable team member, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the…

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Book Review: THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE AND OTHER STORIES

Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn. And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books.…

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Book Review: TIME SIEGE by Wesley Chu

Having been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future. Earth is a toxic, sparsely inhabited wastelandthe perfect hiding place for a fugitive exchronman to hide from the authorities. James has allies, scientists he rescued from previous centuries: Elise Kim, who believes she can renew Earth, given time; Grace Priestly, the venerated…

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Book Review: EVERY HEART A DOORWAY by Seanan McGuire

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere… else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced… they change a person. The children under Miss West’s…

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Book Review: THE AERONAUT'S WINDLASS by Jim Butcher

Book Review: THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS by Jim Butcher

Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion—to join a team of agents on a vital…

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Book Review: INQUISITOR by Mitchell Hogan

Inquisitor Angel Xia, former mercenary turned detective, is used to being the hunter. But on another routine murder investigation the bodies begin to pile up, and Angel finds herself a target of sinister powers determined to conceal the truth. The hunter has just become the hunted. Betrayed by those she trusted most, and barely escaping assassination attempts, Angel receives a cryptic message…

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Book Tour: A SHATTERED EMPIRE by Mitchell Hogan

With the release day of A Shattered Empire, book 3 in the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, FINALLY HERE, I have a sneaky-peek share. This is an extract from A Shattered Empire by Mitchell Hogan which is published by Harper Voyager and available in all good book stores and online now. If you missed the first part, you can find it on the Voyager blog here. AND NOW the prologue continues… (more…)

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Book Review: PRINCE OF FOOLS by Mark Lawrence

The Red Queen is dreaded by the kings of the Broken Empire as they dread no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth – womaniser, gambler and all-out cad – is tenth in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes the destiny of millions, Prince Jalan pursues his debauched pleasures. Until, that is, he gets entangled with Snorri ver Snagason, a huge Norse axeman and dragged against his will to the…

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Australian SF Snapshot 2016 - Kirilee Barker

Australian SF Snapshot 2016 – Kirilee Barker

Kirilee Barker is a twenty-something writer from Brisbane, Australia. Her first novel, The Book of Days, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She also received the John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers, and is in no way trying to pad this bio out, no sir. What are you working on at the moment? I’m backpacking around Europe/Asia with my boyfriend for ten months, which…

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Australian SF Snapshot 2016 - Kylie Chan

Australian SF Snapshot 2016 – Kylie Chan

Kylie Chan married a Hong Kong national in a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony in Eastern China, and lived in Hong Kong for ten years as an information technology trainer and consultant. When she returned to Australia she studied martial arts, Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, and brought these together in her nine-book ‘Dark Heavens’ Chinese mythology-based fantasy series published by…

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Australian SF Snapshot 2016 - Nicole Murphy

Australian SF Snapshot 2016 – Nicole Murphy

Nicole has been telling stories for as long as she can remember and been writing them down since primary school. She’s had five novels published – three as Nicole Murphy (the Dream of Asarlai trilogy with HarperCollins Australia) and two as Elizabeth Dunk (contemporary romance with Escape Publishing). Her two main occupations thus far in her life – teaching and journalism – have taught her a…

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