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What do readers say about The Poppy War?
a debut novel fantasy genre fiction succinctly but nicely written another eastern fantasyA brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu's Grace of Kings and N.... More details on The Poppy War
Rin crossed her arms tightly across her chest and walked toward the second proctor. She was led behind a screen, patted thoroughly to make sure she hadn’t packed test materials up any orifices, and th...
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What do readers say about The Library at Mount Char?
fun and snappy dark, disturbing, yet humorous extremely gruesome and violent well written plot"Wholly original . . . the work of the newest major talent in fantasy."-The Wall Street Journal
"Freakishly compelling . . . through heart-thumping acts of violence and laugh-out-loud moments, this book practically dares you to keep reading."-Atlanta... More details on The Library at Mount Char
Carolyn, blood-drenched and barefoot, walked alone down the two-lane stretch of blacktop that the Americans called Highway 78. Most of the librarians, Carolyn included, had come to think of this road ...
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What do readers say about Nevernight?
dark, gritty and otherworldly assassins and bloodshed the purplest of prose flourishes and metaphorsNevernight is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff.
In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who dest... More details on Nevernight
Caramel-smooth skin, honeydew-sweet smile. Black curls on the right side of unruly. Strong hands and hard muscle and his eyes, O, Daughters, his eyes. Five thousand fathoms deep. Pulling you in to lau...
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What do readers say about The Grace Year?
ya dystopian novel dark and haunting first person narrative most of the endingNo one speaks of the grace year. It's forbidden.
In Garner County, girls are banished for their sixteenth year to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage.
But not all of them will make it home alive.
I follow her through the woods, a well-worn path I’ve seen a thousand times. Ferns, lady-slipper, and thistle, the mysterious red flowers dotting the path. Five petals, perfectly formed, like they wer...
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What do readers say about Tomorrow, When the War Began?
suspenseful adventure story smooth and crisp survival and war young adult fictionWhen Ellie and six of her friends return home from a camping trip deep in the bush, they find things hideously wrong - their families gone, houses empty and abandoned, pets and stock dead. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has bee... More details on Tomorrow, When the War Began
It's only half an hour since someone—Robyn I think—said we should write everything down, and it's only twenty-nine minutes since I got chosen, and for those twenty-nine minutes I've had everyone crowd...
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What do readers say about After the Flood?
futuristic catastrophic climate fiction post apocalyptic novel a high sea adventure an adventure post-apocalypticA Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly ov... More details on After the Flood
Seagulls circled over our boat, which made me think of Row. The way she squawked and waved her arms when she was first trying to walk; the way she stood completely still for almost an hour, watching t...
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What do readers say about The Bone Season?
predictable, but still enjoyable fantastic story telling densely detailed world building exciting and... well, literaryA dreamer who can start a revolution
For the past two hundred years the Scion government has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in London.
Clairvoyance in all its forms has been decreed a criminal offence, and those who practise it vici... More details on The Bone Season
We are the minority the world does not accept. Not outside of fantasy, and even that’s blacklisted. We look like everyone else. Sometimes we act like everyone else. In many ways, wearelike everyone el...
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What do readers say about My Heart Is a Chainsaw?
literary type horror slasher movie fans very well crafted story a homage to the slasher genreNamed a Best Book of 2021 by NPR
In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, New ... More details on My Heart Is a Chainsaw
And then there was one. Of me, I mean, Mr. Holmes, one Jade Daniels to take you by the hand and walk you up and down the video rental aisles of slasherland to make up for what I missed from the Freddy...
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What do readers say about The Rain?
first person novel beautiful but heartbreaking dealing with infertility from the male perspectiveThere are a lot of stories about how the rain started. The thing that always comes to mind first isn’t the how though, it’s the how much. Russell still does the math too: 15, 5,400, and 8,550.
15 inches a day, 5,400 a year, and 8,550 feet since the s... More details on The Rain
The thing that always comes to mind first isn’t the how though, it’s the how much. Back when they were taking measurements still, according to Russell, the numbers to know were 15 and 5,400. Now he’s ...
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What do readers say about The Forgetting?
erasing everyone's memories their own history life on another planet teen dystopia genreWhat isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody c... More details on The Forgetting
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