Title: The Dead Author: Charlie Higson Genre: Apocalypse, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Zombies Publisher: Hyperion (US)/Puffin (UK) Publication Date: June 2011 (US)/September 2010 (UK) Hardcover: 496 Pages THE DEAD begins one year before the action in THE ENEMY,…
Title: The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter Author: Brent Hayward Genre: New Weird, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy Publisher: ChiZine Publications Publication date: May 15th 2011 Paperback: 250 pages The city is crumbling… Clouds over Nowy Solum have not parted in a hundred…
Title: The 10PM Question Author: Kate de Goldi Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Templar (UK) / Candlewick (US) Publication Date: August 2010 / September 2010 (First published in NZ in 2009) Paperback/Hardcover: 252 pages Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons is a…
Title: Leviathan Wakes Author: James S.A. Corey Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery/Noir, Space Opera Publisher: Orbit Publication Date: June 2011 Hardcover: 592 Pages Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but…
Title: Bumped Author: Megan McCafferty Genre: Dystopian, Satire, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Balzer + Bray (Harper Teen) Publication Date: May 2011 Hardcover: 336 Pages When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay…
Title: The Boy at the End of the World Author: Greg Van Eekhout Genre: Speculative Fiction (Post-Apocalyptic), Middle Grade Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication date: June 21, 2011 Hardcover: 224 pages Fisher is the last boy on earth-and things are not…
Hello everyone, and Happy Sunday! Is anyone else enjoying a Game of Thrones finale party? Big props to HBO for doing such a great job with the first season adaptation of the novel. The question now becomes, what on…
Hey folks! As it’s officially summer and we’re halfway through the year, we decided that it was high time to start keeping score – of our favorite books of the year, that is. Without further ado, we present you…
Title: The Midnight Palace Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Julia Graves) Genre: Mystery, Historical, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Little, Brown (US) / Orion (UK) Publication date: May 30 2011 / June 2 2011 Hardcover: 306 pages…
Title: Beauty Queens Author: Libba Bray Genre: Satire, Humor, Adventure/Survival, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Scholastic Publication Date: May 2011 Hardcover: 400 Pages The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a…
Even though we Smugglers were less than impressed with Beauty Queens (make sure to check out our review later today), that doesn’t mean that you won’t like it. Courtesy of Scholastic, This Is Teen, and Big Honcho Media, we…
Title: Divergent Author: Veronica Roth Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (Harper Teen) Publication Date: May 2011 Paperback: 487 Pages In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the…
Title: Imaginary Girls Author: Nova Ren Suma Genre: Contemporary – Speculative Fiction YA Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group Publication Date: 14 June 2011 Hardcover: 352 pages Chloe’s older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for,…
Title: The Lost Heiress (formerly Interrex in the UK & Australia/NZ) Author: Catherine Fisher Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Dial (US)/Red Fox Books (UK) Publication Date: June 2011 (US)/February 1999 (UK) Hardcover: 384 Pages The second installment…
Hello everyone, and welcome to our stop on the official Relic Master blog tour! Today we are thrilled to have YA author Catherine Fisher over to celebrate the re-release of the second book in her Relic Master quartet, The…
Flowing from Steph Su Reads, the next stop on the MundiMoms’ LUMINOUS Blog Tour is….us! Title: Luminous Author: Dawn Metcalf Genre: Speculative Fiction / YA Publisher: Dutton Publication date: June 30 2011 Hardcover: 304 pages As reality slips and…
Friendly readers, Thea is away this weekend and usually when that happens, I take over and throw a party and go all EXTREME when writing the stash but ALAS, I have contracted the Flu of Doom and I feel…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
Welcome to BEA Appreciation Week 2011! As is our annual tradition, this week we bring you reviews of some of the titles we have scooped up at BEA, as well as some general news and ponderings concerning the trade…
Title: One Crazy Summer Author: Rita Williams-Garcia Genre: Historical MG (Mid-sixties) Publisher: Amistad Publication Date: January 2010 Hardcover: 218 pages Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern,…
Welcome to BEA Appreciation Week 2011! As is our annual tradition, this week we bring you reviews of some of the titles we have scooped up at BEA, as well as some general news and ponderings concerning the trade…
Welcome to BEA Appreciation Week 2011! As is our annual tradition, this week we bring you reviews of some of the titles we have scooped up at BEA, as well as some general news and ponderings concerning the trade…
Welcome to BEA Appreciation Week 2011! As is our annual tradition, this week we bring you reviews of some of the titles we have scooped up at BEA, as well as some general news and ponderings concerning the trade…
Welcome to BEA Appreciation Week 2011! As is our annual tradition, this week we bring you reviews of some of the titles we have scooped up at BEA, as well as some general news and ponderings concerning the trade…
Hello folks, and welcome to another Sunday edition of our Smugglers’ Stash & News. Big Fat I’m-Not-Going-to-BEA-but-I-Want-Books-Too Giveaway Winners: The contest has closed, and the sorting hat has spoken. The winners of our BEA-inspired giveaway are: Batch 1: Equations…