Where genres mix and mingle.
THE BOOK: Harper Curtis is a time traveling serial killer. How about that for a one-sentence pitch? Harper discovers purely by chance a key to a very creepy house whose doors open on different times. The catch is that the house wants Harper to find and kill certain girls — girls that shine. (more…)
Title: Rosemary and Rue
Author: McGuire, Seanan
Pub.: DAW, 2009
Series: October Daye, Book 1
THE BOOK: At the start of this first book in the October Daye series, Toby is struggling at a minimum wage job, trying to hide amongst the mortals. She is a changeling: part human, part fae. Once she was an honored member of the fae courts, knighted for her service to her liege lord, Duke Sylvester Torquill. (more…)
Title: Lexicon
Author: Barry, Max
Pub.: Penguin, 2013
Series: Standalone
THE BOOK: Car chases, kidnappings, blowing stuff up — all these elements are most often found in your bog standard thriller and yet they all can be found in the first 50 pages of Max Barry’s latest SF book Lexicon. There are two storylines in Lexicon which playfully obscure and reveal truths about each other as they race to a action-packed convergence in the end of the book. (more…)
