“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can’t get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.” The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of…
2025 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag
Wow. Another one of these? I can’t believe that half of the year is over. I’ve gone through a really rough patch with my reading these past few months. Like taking three weeks or more to finish one book. I’ve had a few things going on in my personal life that are probably partially to…
Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender
“Energy is infinite, and love is energy, so love has the potential to be infinite too.” Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic―so when Ash is rejected by the Lancaster Mage’s College, he takes a job as the school’s groundskeeper instead, forced to learn alchemy in secret. When he’s…
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
“When you do the right thing for the wrong reason, no one praises you. When you do the wrong thing for the right reason, everyone does, even though what is right and wrong depends entirely on the story you’re living in. And no one says they need recognition or praise or love, but we all…
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
“The fields of these lands are wet with the blood of many officers. And though we keep hoping the Empire grows more civilized, somehow it finds clever new ways to stay savage.” In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even…
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà
“Where women are not, the devil, he will bring them.” Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out….
Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa
“But a change of plans on the journey doesn’t keep you from the destination.” In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School’s Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win in the Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional; and met, made out with, and almost hooked up with one of the…
When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
“Gentle souls cast as devils in humankind’s ongoing stage play of existence. It’s Oppression 101: find a bad guy, and if you can’t, make one up.” On Kupala Night, Dymitr arrives in Chicago’s monstrous, magical underworld with a perilous mission: pick the mythical fern flower and offer it to a cursed creature in exchange for…
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
“It hurt to lose love. I knew first hand how much. And the wounds from tearing one’s heart free of someone else’s always left scars. What good is passion if it comes without trust?” Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously…
Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo
“Be a little kind to yourself, please. If you can be whoever you want, wouldn’t it be nice to be someone you liked?” Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He’s good at watching, and he’s even…
The Great Book Wyrm 