Hello everyone! Happy Holiday Sunday (for those in the US)! Naamah’s Blessing Giveaway Winner: First, some business! The lucky winner of a copy of Naamah’s Blessing by Jacqueline Carey is… Lexi (comment #5) Congratulations! You know the drill. Send…
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Title: Wrapped Author: Jennifer Bradbury Genre: Mystery, Historical, Regency, Young Adult Publisher: Athenium (S&S) Publication Date: May 2011 Hardcover: 320 Pages Agnes Wilkins is standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, about to make the first cut into the…
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Book Review (& Giveaway): Naamah’s Blessing by Jacqueline Carey
Title: Naamah’s Blessing Author: Jacqueline Carey Genre: Fantasy, Alternate History Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: June 2011 Hardcover: 624 Pages Returning to Terre d’Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of…
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: 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…
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…
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: 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…
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…
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Book Review: The Demon Trapper’s Daughter by Jana Oliver
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…
Title: The Warrior Heir Author: Cinda Williams Chima Genre: Contemporary/Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Hyperion/Disney (US)/Indigo (UK) Publication Date: April 2006 (US)/September 2011 (UK) Hardcover: 432 Pages Before he knew about the Roses, 16-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life…
Title: Undead Author: Kirsty McKay Genre: Horror, Speculative Fiction, Zombies, Apocalypse, Young Adult Publisher: Chicken House Publication Date: September 2011 Hardcover: 304 Pages It was just another school trip… When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone…
“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…
Title: The Wikkeling Author: Written by Steven Arntson, Illustrated by Daniela J. Terrazzini Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Middle Grade Publisher: Running Press Kids Publication Date: May 2011 Hardcover: 256 Pages Young Henrietta is about to uncover a mystery she…
Title: Plague Author: Michael Grant Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Harper Teen Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 497 Pages It’s been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE. They’ve survived hunger. They’ve survived lies. But…
Title: The Dark City Author: Catherine Fisher Genre: Young Adult/Middle Grade, Science Fiction-Fantasy Publisher: Red Fox (original) / Dial (reprint) Publication Date: August 1998 / May 2011 Hardcover: 384 Pages Welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation,…
Title: America Pacifica Author: Anna North Genre: Speculative Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian, Literary Fiction Publisher: Little Brown & Co. Publication Date: May 2011 Hardcover: 294 Pages Eighteen-year-old Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica—one of the last places on…
Hello folks, happy Sunday! Down to business… Giveaway Winners: We have a few giveaways to close out! First, our winner of Kate Noble’s Follow My Lead has yet to claim their prize, and so we are announcing a new…
Title: Warm Bodies Author: Isaac Marion Genre: Speculative Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombies, Horror, Romance Publisher: Atria Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 256 Pages R is a young man with an existential crisis–he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America…