By R.A. Salvatore
Tor, $27.99, 416 pages
The Bear is the last of the four Saga of the First King books set in the early days of Salvatore’s Corona world. Bransen Garibond, the Highwayman, is deeply depressed and disillusioned with the ongoing Honce war. He has rejected the objectives of both sides and wants only to return [...]
By Ilona Andrews
Ace, $7.99, 384 pages
Magic Bleeds is book four in the Kate Daniels series and it doesn’t disappoint. Kate Daniels works for the Order, a paranormal protection agency, as a liaison between them and the mercenary guild. She’s an appealing blend of toughness and vulnerability, and though her stubbornness can be frustrating, Kate is [...]
By Simon R. Green
Ace, $7.99, 260 pages
The Carnacki Institute is humanity’s first, last, and only defense against incursions of a supernatural nature. Other-dimensional forces, demonic entities, convergences of time and space – the Institute is equipped to handle all of them. Its resident experts in hauntings and ghostly visitations are the arrogantly capable JC Chance, [...]
By Greg Cox
Ace, $15.00, 305 pages
It starts with the death of a god. The battle between good and evil has tipped toward the side of evil, and the Justice League of America scrambles to solve the mystery. As dangers mount and the heroes are scattered by threats both personal and global, a dark force conquers [...]
By Tom Lloyd
Pyr, $16.00, 544 pages
Lord Isaak is dead but not before striking down Lord Styrax’s son, leaving the Menin victorious but vulnerable as their leader succumbs to catatonic grief at the loss of his heir. In the lull following the war, King Emin grimly pursues the savage mission he has dedicated his life to [...]
By Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Golden Gryphon Press, $24.95, 316 pages
Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories collects nine tales by award winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Perhaps best known for her novella of space-faring treasure archaeologists and treasure hunters, “Diving into the Wreck” (which appears in this collection), this compilation shows the unique versatility and consummate [...]
By David Weber
Baen Books, $27.00, 600 pages
Mission of Honor is book twelve in David Weber’s core Honorverse series, but to truly understand and enjoy this installment, one should have also have read the sub-series books Torch of Freedom and Storm from the Shadows. Plenty of storylines combine in this book, and while they all aren’t [...]
By Todd J. McCaffrey
Del Rey, $26.00, 429 pages
Deadly Thread is falling once again on Pern, and as they’ve done for generations, the dragons of Pern rise with their riders to flame it from the sky. This time they have more than one foe to battle — a devastating plague has been cured but not before [...]
By Turtledove, Harry
Del Rey, $27.00, 432 pages
What if the conference in Munich between the European leaders had failed and WWII had started a year earlier? What if the war had started in Czechoslovakia instead of Poland? These are just a couple of the deviating historical focal points that Turtledove used to create his alternate WWII [...]
By Terry Brooks
Del Rey, $27.00, 368 pages
500 years after the boy Hawk led a rag-tag group into the valley to protect them from the end of the world as they knew it, the magic used to seal them away is fading. Creatures from outside the valley have found their way in, and if some already [...]
By Carolyn Crane
Spectra, $7.99, 371 pages
Carolyn Crane’s Mind Games is brilliant in its oddness. It manages to combine psychology, violence, and ambiguity in a plot begging for a video game, if not a film adaptation. The protagonist is Justine Jones, whose obsessive fear of dying from vein star syndrome is overpowering in its weirdness, but [...]
By Amelia Beamer
Night Shade Books, $14.95, 272 pages
If you’d have told me, before I started reading it, that I would dislike a book about zombies that included graphic girl–on-girl sex scenes and was endorsed by one of my favorite authors, Christopher Moore, I’d have said that you were crazy, but The Loving Dead by Amelia [...]
By Jenna Black
Griffin, $9.99, 304 pages
Dana, a half Faerie-half human, 16-year-old has had enough when her mother shows up to her recital drunk – again. She decides to run off to find her father, who is supposedly some important lord in the Faerie world. Little does she realize that she has just dropped herself into [...]
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