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#RRSciFiMonth: Star Wars: A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller

Posted on November 11, 2014 20 Comments

Sci-Fi November is a month-long blog event hosted by Oh The Books and Rinn Reads this year, created to celebrate everything amazing about science fiction! From TV shows to movies, books to comics, and everything else in between, it is intended to help science fiction lovers share their love and passion for this genre and its many, […]

Book Review: Sword of the Bright Lady by M.C. Planck

Posted on October 21, 2014 17 Comments

Sword of the Bright Lady by M.C. Planck Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 1 of World of Prime Publisher: Pyr (September 9, 2014) Author Information: Website Mogsy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars Many will probably read Sword of the Bright Lady and think what a peculiar world our protagonist Christopher Sinclair has landed in, with all these funny magical rules and strange […]

Book Review: The Shadowed Sun by N.K. Jemisin

Posted on October 14, 2014 16 Comments

The Shadowed Sun by N.K. Jemisin Genre: Fantasy Series: Dreamblood #2 Publisher: Orbit (2012) Author Info: http://www.nkjemisin.com Wendy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars I was hard on the first book in this series, The Killing Moon, mainly because I had read Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms first and fallen in absolute complete and total love with […]

YA Weekend: Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

Posted on October 4, 2014 11 Comments

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor Genre: Young Adult, Supernatural, Romance, Urban Fantasy Series: Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1 Publisher: Little Brown Books (September 2011) Author Info: http://www.lainitaylor.com Wendy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars Karou is a nice, blue-haired enigma living in Prague and attending art school where her friends love to see her […]

Book Review: The Godless by Ben Peek

Posted on September 23, 2014 17 Comments

The Godless by Ben Peek Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 1 of Children Publisher: Tor (UK: August 14, 2014), Thomas Dunne (US: August 19, 2014) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars The Godless caught me off guard a bit, as it ended up not being the kind of book I was expecting at all. Mainly, it doesn’t read […]

Book Review: The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

Posted on September 5, 2014 19 Comments

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 1 of Worldbreaker Saga Publisher: Angry Robot (August 26, 2014) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars Needless to say, putting this review together was quite difficult for me, on account of how very different it is from the one I thought I would be writing. I […]

Book Review: Shattering the Ley by Joshua Palmatier

Posted on August 27, 2014 10 Comments

Shattering the Ley by Joshua Palmatier Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 1 Publisher: DAW (July 1, 2014) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m a pretty fast reader, but Shattering the Ley still took me about a couple months to read, due to the fact I started it earlier this summer right around the time when things got […]

YA Weekend: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Posted on July 19, 2014 14 Comments

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Series: Book 3 of The Grisha Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. (June 17, 2014) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars Ruin and Rising was good, but perhaps it was just good…enough? I sat on this review for several weeks trying to gather my thoughts about this book […]

Book Review: Unwept by Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman

Posted on July 15, 2014 17 Comments

Unwept by Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal Series: Book 1 of The Nightbirds Publisher: Tor (July 1, 2014) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars Some books start off with a shaky opening but then end up getting better as the story gains momentum, but other times there are books like Unwept that go the opposite way. These […]

Book Review: Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Posted on July 11, 2014 4 Comments

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (April 2010) Author Info: Twitter Wendy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars : I enjoyed spotting the different characters and story elements within the book that the show expands on so wonderfully. Yes I read this because I’ve watched and enjoyed the […]