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Received: October 2013

Posted on 2013-11-12 at 13:00 by Sam

Well, we had been taking it a bit slow in terms of review copies over the summer, a few each month. But we pretty much gorged as October rolled around. Something in the air? So, in that ongoing interest in full disclosure and all that, here are:

RECEIVED, OCTOBER 2013

The Bone Season By Samantha Shannon, Narrated By Alana Kerr for Audible for Bloomsbury (Sam).

Joyland By Stephen King, Narrated By Michael Kelly for Simon & Schuster Audio (Dave).

Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the

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Received: Summer 2013

Posted on 2013-09-19 at 20:53 by Sam

I haven't done a "received" post in a while, so in the interest of openness and acknowledgement, here's what we've asked for and received this summer.

JUNE 2013

The Planet Thieves by Dan Krokos, read by Kirby Heywood for Blackstone Audio (Sam) -- I wasn't entirely sure of the age range for this one, which ended up being somewhere in between young reader and young adult. We don't have the wide-eyed innocence of childhood or (thankfully) the jaded apathy of too many YA novels. Instead it's an adventure for

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Received: May 2013

Posted on 2013-06-07 at 18:49 by Sam

Another quiet month in the received column, as for the most part I still have a good backlog in the to-listen and to-review piles already. Still, there were a few things we couldn't resist asking for:

1. HACHETTE AUDIO: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks; and Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan (Dave's current listen as of this posting):

2. HARPER AUDIO: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, read by George Guidall -- this one was wonderful, a magical delight of a book and audiobook:

3

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Received: April 2013

Posted on 2013-05-03 at 19:42 by Sam

I took it pretty easy on the review copy front in April, to the tune of three titles:

1. No Return by Zachary Jernigan, read by John FitzGibbon for Audible Frontiers.

This is one I finished listening to a couple of week ago now, so here's a snippet of my review, A stunning and original debut fantasy: "In a crowded year of strong debut fantasy novels, "No Return" is a very strong contender. Beginning with an assured voice, a prologue of a pitiless landscape of an hallucinogenic salt lake, expanding out

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Received: March 2013

Posted on 2013-04-03 at 20:00 by Sam

March was a bit quiet in terms of review copies, as I felt too embarrassed by my months-long backlog of reviews to ask for too many more to add to the pile. Still, a few I couldn't resist:

1. Harper Audio, Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill, read by Vikas Adam. I'd just listened to Vikas Adam as one of two narrators for Manil Suri's The City of Devi and he was again quite, quite good in this slow-building but high-payoff urban fantasy, which sets the world of the Fae, with glamour, changelings, the

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Received, February 2013

Posted on 2013-02-25 at 17:41 by Sam

I'm still working through a few of the January incoming, but I've also already had a chance to listen to a few of these titles which were sent our way in February:

1. Digital ARC of The Rift Walker (Vampire Empire, Book Two) by Clay and Susan Griffith, read by James Marsters for Buzzy Multimedia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2-7WttC44

"A worthy successor in story, narration and production for the Audie-nominated The Greyfriar. James Marsters as a cast of vampires could not be more perfect." -- The

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Received, January 2013

Posted on 2013-02-01 at 02:51 by Sam

It started with a couple of boxes from Brilliance Audio, with Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, both of Catherynne M. Valente's Fairyland books, Steven Erikson's Forge of Darkness, and This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong:

And continued with a pair of digital download review copies, Lost Things: The Order of the Air by Melissa Scott and Jo Graham (from Crossroad Press) and The Dirty Streets of Heaven: Bobby Dollar, Book 1 by

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Received: Nine titles from Blackstone Audio

Posted on 2012-10-18 at 14:58 by Sam

First, though chronologically last, the physical mp3-cd shipment, which includes Crossing Overby Anna Kendall (2010, The Soulvine Moor Chronicles, Book One), The Sword-Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe (read by Stefan Rudnicki, 2009, The Eddie LaCrosse Mysteries, Book 1), None So Blind by Joe Haldeman, Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce (read by John Lee), and The Fullness of Time by Kate Wilhelm:

Second, though chronologically first, four digital review copies:

• V Wars Edited by Jonathan Maberry, Read

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Received: 3 titles from Harper Audio

Posted on 2012-10-15 at 17:49 by Sam

Received: More review copies from our fall requests are coming in, this batch includes three titles from Harper Audio:

• The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson
• Dodger by Terry Pratchett

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