FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"A dull, overly complicated entry in the swampy gothic romance that feeds fans and starves newcomers. "
Vampires and werewolves and fairies, oh my: just another day in the life of Harris' navel-gazing southern belle.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Tends toward the claustrophobic at times, but superior and fulfilling."
New ancient Egypt–flavored fantasy from the New York resident author of
The Broken Kingdoms (2010, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 24, 2012
"Highly entertaining and baffling in equal measure."
Sequel to
Sword of Fire and Sea (2011), video-game designer Hoffman's venture into text fantasy.
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FICTION
Released: April 24, 2012
"A master class in the art of short-story writing."
FICTION
Released: April 24, 2012
"A middling fantasy adventure that will appeal mainly to the authors' longtime fans. "
Weis and Hickman (
Secret of the Dragon, 2010, etc.), co-authors of more than a dozen fantasy novels in the popular Dragonlance series and the seven-part Death Gate Cycle, among other works, again team up for the third book in their Dragonships of Vindras series.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Satisfying if not particularly surprising or original."
Realization of what appeared, briefly and fictionally, as a "hypothetical" novel in one of Evenson's (Last Days, 2009, etc.) previous works.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Dull characters, bland dialogue and thin plotting make for a weak final installment of the trilogy, which Birmingham closes by awkwardly setting up a potential sequel. No thanks."
The final novel in Birmingham's post-apocalyptic trilogy (
After America, 2010, etc.) doesn't wrap up the story so much as coast to a stop, with a frustrating amount of padding before the disappointing climax.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"An intriguing but ultimately unfocused novel."
Slattery (
Liberation, 2008, etc.), coeditor of
The New Haven Review literary journal, produces a grim tale that takes place in a disaster-stricken, war-torn United States.
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Far from disappointing but not quite what the first volume seemed to promise."
Sequel to Indigo Springs (2009), where magic, driven into the "unreal" in the 17th century by witch-burning Fyremen, is returning, setting off power struggles and war.
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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"Readers hooked by the futuristic excitement may be disappointed in the lack of follow-through."
Sci-fi veteran Sawyer (WWW: Wonder, 2011, etc.) turns in a solid if bland techno-thriller, which hums along nicely until an absurd mystical finale.
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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"A bait-and-switch for fans of police noir, but red meat for readers who wish Harry Potter had swapped his YA credentials for a badge and gun."
A genre-bending urban fantasy that pits San Francisco's Finest against a subterranean horde of monsters who threaten the human race.
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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"Brutal, witty, insightful, addictive, frequently baffling and altogether astonishing."
Continuing the blended fantasy/science fiction adventures of Stover's homicidal antihero (Caine Black Knife, 2008, etc.).
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