The Republic Of Thieves by Scott Lynch | Book Review

I read the current Gentleman Bastards books in a bit of a fever pitch and now I have a quandry. What do I do with my reading life now that I have no more Gentleman Bastards books left to read? Apparently the next book, The Thorn Of Emberlain comes out Fall 2014 which feels like […]

The Lies Of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch | Book Review

I love it when you are reading a fantasy book and there’s all these different little threads and pieces and things that don’t make sense and then it ALL comes together and the ending is like painful and awesome and epic. Basically I love The Lies Of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. You see, this is […]

The Orphan Of Awkward Falls | Keith Graves | Book Review

Mad scientists, automatons, and lunatics abound in Keith Graves’ The Orphan Of Awkward Falls, a fun speculative fiction middle grade book. I was totally over the moon to read The Orphan Of Awkward Falls because A) I love books that have orphans in them and B) The Book Smugglers gave it a good review. Hopes were high […]

Hidden | Sophie Jordan | Book Review

When I cracked open Hidden by Sophie Jordan, third book in the Firelight series, I was really excited. I mean, I had been putting the book off for a long time and was reading other more pressing books. Yet, in the back of my mind I would always see this book and feel a twinge of excitement […]

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige | Book Review

Revolutions and uprisings are totally my jam. I love it when oppressed people rise up and overthrow their tyrants. So, it should not shock you at all that I was really excited about Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. This is a debut that not only has a revolutionary element, but melds with another favorite trope […]

Boys Of Blur by ND Wilson | Book Review

It’s really hard for me to turn down a book that’s got comparisons to Holes and Maniac Magee, those were kind of the books that defined middle school for me. Boys Of Blur by ND Wilson was not quite the page turner I was expecting but it was one of those books that as I was reading it, […]