FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Like Stuart Kaminsky, Jaffarian juggles her franchises deftly, giving each a unique voice and appeal. Her latest series kickoff may be her best yet, blending supernatural sexy with down-to-earth sassy. "
Odelia Gray (
Corpse on the Cob, 2010, etc.) and Granny Apples (
Ghost à la Mode, 2009) have a new cousin: Madison Rose, a human living in Los Angeles's twilight world of vampires.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Heathcliff without fangs is scary enough."
Another literary classic is hijacked by toothy interlopers, this time courtesy of Gray, aka romance novelist Colleen Faulkner.
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FICTION
Released: July 21, 2010
"If this was an episode severed, so to speak, from the body of A Dark Matter, it's easy to understand why. This is very, very close to Straub at his very, very worst."
This extremely creepy and disturbing novella is either a pendant to, or, more likely, an outtake from Straub's most recent full-length novel
A Dark Matter, published earlier this year.
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INDIE
Released: July 13, 2010
"Goodman's story is interesting, twisty and thoughtful, though some readers may wish for more polished, refined presentation.
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Goodman's debut novel takes readers on an adventure into the afterworld, showing that choices have consequences that stretch beyond the present--even beyond this life.
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FICTION
Released: June 15, 2010
"Comic strip characters and pedestrian prose--pretty silly stuff really, but we all know how it works for Koontz: 400,000,000 copies sold in 38 languages, give or take."
In the fourth installment of his Frankenstein series (
Dead and Alive, 2009, etc.), Koontz posits a new kind of vexation with the same old objective: Kill everybody.
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FICTION
Released: June 9, 2010
"A departure from Kortya's Lincoln Perry p.i. series (The Silent Hour, 2009, etc.) that's every bit as well-written."
FICTION
Released: June 8, 2010
"The young girl as heroine and role model is a nice touch. Otherwise a pretty ordinary production, with little that hasn't been seen before."
Literary author Cronin (
Mary and O'Neil, 2001, etc.) turns in an apocalyptic thriller in the spirit of Stephen King or Michael Crichton.
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INDIE
Released: June 2, 2010
"An epic, exciting tale of knighthood and vampires."
An epic medieval fantasy chronicling the trials and tribulations of Elysium, a 15th-century kingdom under threat by evil, but protected by the Seaton brothers and their magical claymores.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Judging by the hype, what the publisher hoped for was Lord of Harry Potter's Dark Materials; what it actually secured is, in its own immodest way, engrossing enough."
The first of a medieval-fantasy trilogy from the author of
The Golden Age of Censorship (2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Christopher Moore does much better work with both vampires and Shakespeare, but this bawdy send-up should slake the thirst of mash-up lovers a little longer."
The Bard struggles with madness and monsters in this risqué literary burlesque from paranormal romanticist Handeland (
Apocalypse Happens, 2009, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Lean, relentless and terrifying."
The war between the Haters and the Unchanged rages on in the follow-up to Moody's taut horror/suspense debut
Hater (2009).
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Predictably violent fare from formulaic Masterton (Basilisk, 2009, etc.), who seems unable to live up to his former standards."
