Adventure
Review: Blood Sky by Traci L. Slatton
In a time of apocalyptic despair, love is put to the test… Deep in the badlands of Outpost City, in the Dark Horse saloon, a poker game is being played. The stakes are life and death—for the world. What can Emma afford to lose? Will she gamble on herself, or on Arthur? Will love find […]
Review: The Children of Darkness by David Litwack
“But what are we without dreams?” A thousand years ago the Darkness came-a terrible time of violence, fear, and social collapse when technology ran rampant. But the vicars of the Temple of Light brought peace, ushering in an era of blessed simplicity. For ten centuries they have kept the madness at bay with “temple magic,” […]
Review & Giveaway: Intrusion by Réal Laplaine
An elderly man in the remote Canadian tundra keels over dead – mysteriously seized by a heart attack. Another man in downtown Toronto, steps in front of a car, killing him instantly and before he can deliver his critical package. Two remote deaths, a continent apart, and yet connected in a plot which could change […]
Review: Pretty Little Creatures by Vince Milam
EBOLA, JIHADISTS, BLOOD DIAMONDS, DRUG CARTELS, AND A DARK FORCE DRIVING EVENTS. In pursuit, an eclectic team of three very dissimilar individuals. A reserved small town sheriff on a reluctant quest for justice. A beautiful and eccentric technology genius striving to piece together international clues to terrorism. An epicurean French priest committed to combat. Can […]
Review: The Unknown Element by Vince Milam
Three very different individuals. A dark force rising. The chase begins. A reserved small town sheriff in pursuit of justice. A beautiful and eccentric technology genius striving to understand. A bon vivant French priest committed to finding answers. A horrific event in a sleepy Gulf Coast town pulls them together and the trio find themselves […]
Review: The Firma Twins and the Purple Staff of Death by D.H. Timpko
What would you do if you woke up to find your identical twin sister transformed into a human-size rat? What would you do if an Egyptian mummy comes to life and declares you the Chosen One who must find the Purple Staff of Death and lead a battle? Twelve-year-old Isis Firma finds the idea of […]
Review: Freefall by Joss Whedon
Season 8 ended with a bang that cut the world off from magic—culminating in another set of world-ending problems. Buffy has left her best friend, Willow, powerless, and brought an end to a millennia-long tradition of superpowered girls. By day, Buffy is a twenty-something waitress with no real direction, and even though magic is gone, […]
Review: Show Time by Phil Harvey
Starvation & freezing temperatures aren’t as deadly as profit-hungry producers and fellow competitors in this chilling and erotic depiction of the future of reality TV. Future viewing audiences have become totally desensitized to violence and entirely dependent on sensation to escape their boring workaday lives – an addiction nurtured by the media with graphic portrayals […]
Review: Twilight by Joss Whedon
Buffy Summers and her Slayer army have suffered heavy losses throughout Season Eight and faced scores of threats new and old, but the one mystery connecting it all has been the identity of the Big Bad-Twilight! In this penultimate volume of Season Eight, New York Times best-selling novelist and comics writer Brad Meltzer (The Book […]
Review: The Massive Volume 1: Black Pacific by Brian Wood
In this first volume of Brian Wood’s new, sprawling postapocalyptic epic, follow the crew of the Kapital from the flooded remnants of Hong Kong to Unalaska, with stops in Antarctica and Mogadishu, as post-Crash ethics and economics are explored across a broken world. I found I had mixed feelings as I delved into this comic. […]
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