“The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story.” The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to an aging lord at a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. But they’re forgetting things…
Category: Sequel
The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang
“My greatest fear is not that I will find some sort of half-animal creature, wild-eyed and untamed. It is that I will find a genuine monster: someone perfectly human but with a heart of stone, turned cruel from enduring years of cruelty. What if they are not a tool enslaved by the Protectorate but a…
Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
“It’s easy to go along with a system. It’s harder to create one. You have to choose it, over and over, when you’re building it.” Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again. But when Antsy finds…
The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi
“History is only a story told by those with power to justify why they have it. The truth does not bend to power’s whims.” Stolen from Goodreads (because I don’t trust myself not to give away too much): The Aleke is cruel. The Aleke is clever. The Aleke is coming. 500 years after the events…
Blood Justice by Terry J. Benton-Walker
“Death stalks me like a scorned lover. I can’t escape them. They’re always there, haunting the darkened corners of my life when not bold enough to be front and center, a perpetual reminder that they’ll come for me too one day.” Cristina and Clement Trudeau are trying to move on after their family got some…
Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco
“You’re actually agreeing with Zidan? Am I dreaming?” It was Remy’s turn to grump. “We don’t fight all the time.”“It’s foreplay for you two. I find it both heartwarming and alluring.” Remy Pendergast, the vampire hunter, and his unexpected companions, Lord Zidan Malekh and Lady Xiaodan Song, are on the road through the kingdom of…
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
“I do so look forward to tidying here. Sorting. Organizing. It gives me great peace. I wonder, what do you discover when you bring order to things?” Viv’s career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to…
What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
“The greatest city in Gallacia is fine, I suppose, but I didn’t feel the need to linger. Imagine if an architect wanted to re-create Budapest, but on a shoestring budget and without any of the convenient flat bits. While fighting wolves.” Alex Easton has agreed to host Ms. Potter in their hunting lodge in Gallacia,…
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
“I’m sorry if you expect me to do the noble thing. I warned you. I’m not sweet or soft or kind, and you fell anyways. This is what you get, Violet — me. The good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of it. I am yours.” From Goodreads: Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her…
Loki’s Ring by Stina Leicht
“Nowhere does it say that one has to be nice to deserve life.” Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest , is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception—making her like a…
The Great Book Wyrm 