Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron Series: Heartstrikers #1 Published by self-published Genres: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy Format: eBook Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Goodreads As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code: keep quiet, don’t… December 3, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 11 ★★★★½
Closer to the Chest by Mercedes Lackey Series: Herald Spy #3 Published by DAW Books on Oct. 4, 2016 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 381 Format: eARC, Hardcover Source: the library, the publisher Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Barnes & Noble | Audible Goodreads Also in this series: Closer to Home,… November 30, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 7 ★★★½
Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning and bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy, died Monday at the age of 88. LeGuin is best known for The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and her EarthSea Cycle, beginning with A Wizard of EarthSea, but she also wrote short stories, poetry, children’s books… Read more »
Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis Series: The Harwood Spellbook #1 Published by Five Fathoms Press, self-published on September 4, 2017 Genres: Fantasy Romance, Historical Fantasy Pages: 166 Format: eARC, eBook Source: purchased, the author Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository Goodreads Also by this author: Kat, Incorrigible, Masks and Shadows, The Dragon… September 14, 2017 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 10 ★★★★½
Women dominated the Hugos this year, winning all the fiction categories as well as graphic story and best related work. At least four of them are women of color, making this year’s Hugo Awards a resounding YES to diversity in science fiction and fantasy. N. K. Jemisin won Best Novel for… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Michiko Kakutani, Chief ‘Times’ Book Critic, Steps Down After Nearly 4 Decades (NPR Books) ‘Sensational’ lost play by Peter Pan author JM Barrie published… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is 10 Books From X Genre That I’ve Recently Added To My TBR List. Rather than pick the ten books most recently added to my TBR list*, I picked the titles added… Read more »
The Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings, Leigh Eddings Published by Del Rey on December 2000 (first hardcover edition) Genres: Fantasy Pages: 742 Format: eBook Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon Goodreads It would be sheer folly to try to conceal the true nature of Althalus, for his flaws are the stuff… May 18, 2017 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 0 ★★★½
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Series: Glamourist Histories #1 Published by Tor on August 3, 2010 Genres: Historical Fantasy Pages: 304 Format: eBook, Paperback Source: purchased Goodreads Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman ahead of her time in… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News YA Authors Get Out the Vote with #firstvote16 (Publishers Weekly) The National Book Foundation announced its 2016 “5 Under 35” honorees. And the LA Times interviewed… Read more »
