Genre: Speculative

The Envisage by MM Warren

The Envisage by MM Warren

All her life, Andelyn has carried an unusual rock. It never leaves her for long. She doesn’t know where it came from—just that it is the one thing that truly belongs to her. She has no memory of her family or her childhood, which is almost as unsettling as a lifetime of hiding from a shadow that is dangerous and impossible to identify. When strangers […]

November 24, 2015 / 1 Comment
Resurgent Shadows by Kevin L. Nielsen

Resurgent Shadows by Kevin L. Nielsen

Humanity stands on the brink of annihilation. Dragons fill the skies. Ever since the Breaking, when earthquakes tore the world apart and unleashed the nightmares of myth and legend, humankind has struggled for survival. Caleb is one of the survivors, and the only thing he cares about is getting revenge on the monsters that killed his wife and son. When he saves the life of […]

November 14, 2015 / 0 Comments
The Cenote by Chelsea Dyreng

The Cenote by Chelsea Dyreng

It was not Sandpiper’s choice to find the dead body in the village drinking water. There’s something strange about the great, deep pool they call the cenote and the men who keep drowning in it. To help prevent more deaths, only the women are allowed to draw water, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Sandpiper can’t help thinking that her new community is hiding […]

November 13, 2015 / 0 Comments
The Colony: Reckoning by Michaelbrent Collings

The Colony: Reckoning by Michaelbrent Collings

The final days at the end of the world. The survivors have been hunted. Their numbers have thinned. The few that remain must face a final trial. A last enemy greater than any they have yet encountered. They must prepare themselves for anything, because the Change was just the start. This is the Reckoning. The final book in The Colony series.   [bctt tweet=”The final […]

November 9, 2015 / 0 Comments
A Pear-Shaped Funeral by Dan Wells

A Pear-Shaped Funeral by Dan Wells

Being the Second Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III. Just when Fredrick Whithers thought his life couldn’t get any more complicated, he is asked to arrange a funeral for a man who is very much not dead. In the companion to A Night of Blacker Darkness, Frederick must balance the arts of necromancy and magic while managing to run a […]

November 4, 2015 / 0 Comments
Daybreak by Cheree Alsop

Daybreak by Cheree Alsop

Liora Day, half-human, half-mess-with-her-and-you’ll-die-Damaclan, had been thrown onto a rough path at a very early age. But when she is broken out of a cage by Devren, the young captain of the SS Kratos, she is shown that perhaps humanity does have a heart. The Kratos is set on a mission to rescue fallen surveyors from the Revolutionaries. Liora is given the choice: to follow […]

October 22, 2015 / 0 Comments
Tremontane: Rider of the Crown by Melissa McShane

Tremontane: Rider of the Crown by Melissa McShane

Imogen, warrior of the Kirkellan tribes, has never wanted to be anything else. But when the long war between the Kirkellan and the country of Ruskald ends, the terms of the peace treaty require Imogen to be married to the vicious King of Ruskald for five years. Confined to his freezing city, forbidden to fight, Imogen sees nothing but darkness in her future—until the arrival […]

October 22, 2015 / 0 Comments
Mithermages: Gatefather by Orson Scott Card

Mithermages: Gatefather by Orson Scott Card

Danny North is the first Gate Mage to be born on Earth in nearly 2000 years, or at least the first to survive to claim his power. Families of Westil in exile on Earth have had a treaty that required the death of any suspected Gate Mage. The wars between the Families had been terrible, until at last they realized it was their own survival […]

October 21, 2015 / 0 Comments
Forgotten Warrior: Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia

Forgotten Warrior: Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia

After the War of the Gods, the demons were cast out and fell to the world. Mankind was nearly eradicated by the seemingly unstoppable beasts, until the gods sent the great hero, Ramrowan, to save them. He united the tribes, gave them magic, and drove the demons into the sea. Ever since the land has belonged to man and the oceans have remained an uncrossable […]

October 16, 2015 / 0 Comments
Mistborn: Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn: Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

The heroes of the Mistborn trilogy are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. Mistborn’s society has evolved as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for converts. Waxillium Ladrian, known as Wax, is the hereditary Lord of House Ladrian but also, until recently, a lawman […]

October 6, 2015 / 1 Comment