FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2009
"An impressive and auspicious genre-hopping adventure."
Priest (
Fathom, 2008, etc.) bravely, and successfully, ventures into steampunk and zombie-horror territory.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"Masterton (Ghost Music, 2009, etc.) involves readers with fast-flowing action, but saddles himself with a repellent hero."
A genetic researcher must help his comatose wife after she falls victim to a basilisk's stare.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"Gimmickry, supernatural and otherwise, blunts what could have been an incisive inquiry into the mysteries and frustrations of too-close kinship from the talented Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife, 2003, etc.)."
Twin sisters inherit a London flat, and a bundle of baggage, from their mother's long-estranged twin.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 18, 2009
"Too idea-hungry and haywire to be fully successful, too alive and abrasive to be missed. The multicultural novel has come of age--smashingly. "
Lavalle (
The Ecstatic, 2002, etc.) fractures all our tidy notions of how well-made fiction ought to behave in his singular tale of a bizarre quest that achieves apocalyptic fulfillment.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2009
"Setiawan unconvincingly inflates a tiny narrative into a supernatural epic."
Magical spells, strange demons and one utterly impossible mother-in-law drive the plot of a moody fairy tale set in no particular time and place.
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FICTION
Released: July 23, 2009
"Readers seeking a leisurely summer read won't find it in this irresistible tale, which will have them staying up much too late for the pleasure of "just one more chapter" before dousing the lights."
London-based exorcist Felix (Fix) Castor drops into the middle of a riddle involving a deceased colleague with strange habits, a bizarre killing and legendary gangsters.
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FICTION
Released: July 21, 2009
"Kinsella (Remember Me?, 2008, etc.) is in her element with scattered, wisecracking Lara, and Sadie (and her outfits) are fabulous. But this one goes on a bit longer than necessary."
Struggling Londoner gets the shock of a lifetime when the meddlesome ghost of a recently deceased relative haunts her.
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FICTION
Released: July 7, 2009
"Definitely not for the squeamish--or skeptical."
FICTION
Released: June 9, 2009
"Informative, though not as creepy as it purports to be. "
A first novel about alchemy, magic and witchcraft, set unsurprisingly in Salem, Mass., in the late 17th century and also, perhaps surprisingly, in Marblehead, Mass., in 1991.
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FICTION
Released: June 2, 2009
"Great characters, a semi-plausible premise and a flair for striking scenes get this trilogy off to a first-rate start."
Film director del Toro (
Pan's Labyrinth, 2006, etc.) and thriller writer Hogan (
The Killing Moon, 2007, etc.) treat a vampire outbreak as a massive public-health crisis, with chilling results.
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FICTION
Released: May 11, 2009
"Utterly predictable, and lacking the edge Terry Pratchett gives similar scenarios, but pleasantly engaging brain candy nonetheless."
The tea-drinking little old lady next door is a cosmic threat in Martinez's latest comic effort (
Too Many Curses, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2009
"Flawed but nevertheless often gripping thriller from one of the most interesting novelists at work today."
A sinister ancestral hoe in an advanced state of decay, a family terrorized by its own history, and a narrator drawn into these orbits dominate this creepy novel from Waters (
The Night Watch, 2006, etc.).
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