Posts published in: 2014/07
Review: Blood Song
Posted on 2014-07-14 at 06:29 by Dave
Blood Song (Raven’s Shadow: Book 1) [Downpour | Audible] By Anthony Ryan, Narrated by Steven Brand for Penguin Audio Length: 23 hours, 8 minutes
In a time where people are chomping at the bit for George R.R. Martin’s next installment in A Song of Ice and Fire, there’s no shortage of epic fantasy novels to choose from. Anthony Ryan’s debut novel Blood Song has seemingly come out of nowhere, and it’s easy to see why so many of Martin’s readers are devouring it: Blood Song feels a lot like the continuing
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Release Week: The Queen of the Tearling, Alias Hook, California, A Plunder of Souls, Landline, To Kill a Mockingbird, Close Your Eyes Hold Hands, and How to Survive a Sharknado
Posted on 2014-07-12 at 10:52 by Sam
JULY 2-8, 2014: Another fantastic week's worth of audiobooks has come our way, from beloved Pulitzer-winning classics in audiobook (and ebook) for the first time to post-apocalyptic sf and epic fantasy, Peter Pan retold, historical fantasy, and time-travel romance. Also out this week: Terry Brooks returns to Shannara (read by Simon Vance), along with new audiobooks from Chris Bohjalian and Veronica Roth, J.M. Ledgard's Submergence, and a standalone short audiobook from Neil Gaiman, his The Truth is a Cave
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Review: The Shining Girls
Posted on 2014-07-07 at 04:36 by Dave
The Shining Girls
By Lauren Beukes, read by Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, Joshua Boone, Dani Cervone, and Jenna Hellmuth
Length 10 hours, 36 minutes
The Shining Girls is like the Magic Tree House from hell, where we trade a magical portal of benevolent discovery for the sinister house Harper Curtis discovers - house that feeds him with the names of victims he's destined to brutally murder. A Prohibition-era drifter all too ready to except his fate, Harper skips through 20th century Chicago
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Release Week: How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky, The String Diaries, Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, Cat Rambo's Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, and Clive Barker's Weaveworld read by Simon Vance
Posted on 2014-07-05 at 15:38 by Sam
JUNE 25-JULY 1, 2014: A fantastic crop of audiobooks this week, with picks from "nerd fiction" to Mulholland-published speculative thrillers, collections, and Clive Barker's 1987 novel Weaveworld. More great titles in the "also out this week" listings, including the latest in Charles Stross' Laundry Files, Peter David's vampiric retelling of Oliver Twist, and enough high-end epic fantasy to keep you busy for a hundred hours: Anthony Ryan's Tower Lord, Django Wexler's The Shadow Throne, Mark Smylie's The
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Review: Rags and Bones
Posted on 2014-07-01 at 05:36 by Dave
Rags & Bones
Edited by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt, Read by Mark Cabus, Bernard Setaro Clark, and Reay Kaplan
Length: 10 hours, 58 minutes
Reboots and remakes get a bad rap. I know - that’s a controversial stance to take. For instance, let's look at Star Wars, which has Death Star levels of angst aimed at it as if it were Alderaan, because Disney and Lucasfilm are wiping out the expanded universe. But here’s the thing – those beloved stories don’t cease to exist. A lot of those old stories and characters
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