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 Book Review: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree Official Author Website Buy Legends and Lattes here - U.S | U.K OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO:  I love stories, and I love telling them. I’m the author of Legends & Lattes, a low-stakes cozy fantasy novel. I’m a narrator too, and I’ve loved the art since I first heard Frank Muller’s legendary work. I’ve lent my voice to hundreds of books (including my own). I live with my wife, two kids, and dog in Washington State, and I get up every morning excited and grateful to do this job. I’m also an erstwhile veteran game developer, and it’s possible you’ve played something I’ve made. Torchlight, Fate & Rebel Galaxy have sold millions of copies on desktops and consoles. I remain the co-owner and CEO of Double Damage Games. FORMAT/INFO:   Legends and Lattes was self published by the author in February 2022, and later traditionally published by Tor Books in the U.S and U.K. OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS:  This book is the epic fantasy s...

  Official Author Websites: Julia Vee  and Ken Bebelle Buy Ebony Gate HERE OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO:  Julia likes stories about monsters, money, and good food. Julia was born in Macao and grew up in Northern California. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop. Ken Bebelle studied Cybernetics at UCLA and has practiced prosthetics for over twenty years, specializing in upper limb prosthetics. He writes science fiction and fantasy with his co-author, Julia Vee. Their debut novel, Ebony Gate, an Asian-inspired urban fantasy, will be published by TOR in summer 2023. FORMAT/INFO: Ebony Gate will be released on July 11th, 2023 by Tor Books. It is 448 pages and is told in the first person from the POV of Emiko Soong. It will be available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats. OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS : Two years ago, Emiko Soong was the Blade of the Soong Clan, a powerful magical family descended from one of the revered dragon sons. But after events led Emiko to earn hers...

Official Author Website Buy The Combat Codes HERE Read Shazzie's Review OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO: Alexander Darwin is an author living near Boston with his wife and three daughters. Outside of writing, he teaches and trains martial arts (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu). He’s inspired by old-school Hong Kong action flicks, jRPGs, underdog stories and bibimbap bowls. Outside of writing fiction, Alexander has written for publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Jiu Jitsu Style and SF Signal. His latest piece, The Lost Diary of Anthony Bourdain, was a featured piece in Rolling Stone’s January 2022 Issue. FORMAT/INFO: The Combat Codes was released on June 13th, 2023 by Orbit Books. It is 419 pages long and told in the third person from Murray and Cego's POVs. It is available in ebook, audiobook, and paperback formats. OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Centuries ago, an accord was struck whereby war was outlawed, instead replaced by fights of single combat between champions called Grievar Knights. Thes...

  BOok links: Amazon, Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Matthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the middle-grade novels The Clockwork Three, Icefall, The Lost Kingdom, Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders, and The Quantum League series, the Dark Gravity Sequence, and the Assassin’s Creed series, Last Descendants. He was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, he has won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, the PEN Center USA award for Children’s Literature, and the Judy Lopez Memorial Award, and has been named to the New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing, and the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults lists. He is also a school psychologist, and currently lives in Utah with his wife and three step-kids. Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers (April 25, 2023) Print length: 320 pages  I don’t care how many prep classes you take, or how many counseling sessions you go through, or how many waivers you sign, none of it actual...

 Book Review: The Burnings by Naomi Kelsey Buy  The Burnings  here OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO:  Hi, I'm Naomi. I'm a hobbyist author and I've been writing for fun since I was about 10 years old. I couldn't find many of the types of books I loved in the marketplace so I decided to write them myself!   I love mysteries, social satire, books about technology and society, non fiction, and fluffy beach reads about fashion and high society.  I am a voracious reader and love to read.  I hope you enjoy my books! OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB:   Nothing scares men like witchcraft . . . 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta lead opposite lives, but they both know one thing: when a man cries “witch”, no woman is safe. Yet when the marriage of King James VI and Princess Anna of Denmark brings Geillis and Margareta together, everything they supposed about good, evil, men, and women, is cast in a strange and brilliant new light. For the first time in hi...

  Official Author Website Order Lucky Girl HERE   OFFICIAL AUTHOR INFORMATION: Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, M. Rickert (she/her) worked as a kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. She has published the short story collections Map of Dreams , Holiday , and You Have Never Been Here . Her first novel, The Memory Garden , was published in 2014, and won the Locus award. Her second novel, The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie , was published in 2021. She is the winner of the Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award and has been nominated for the Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Sturgeon, and British Science Fiction Award. She currently lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.   OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB: Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer is a story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus wri...

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman review Book links : Amazon , Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR :  Austin Grossman is the author of three novels: SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE, YOU, and CROOKED. Publisher :  Vintage; 1st edition (June 5, 2007)  Print length: 338 Formats: ebook, audiobook, paperback, hardback I had a lot of fun listening to this book. It's top-tier entertainment in which the villain is more likable and interesting than the heroes. Not uncommon in superhero fiction :) Meet Dr. Impossible - the evil genius currently rotting in a federal prison. Throughout his career, he has tried many methods to conquer the world through the use of various doomsday devices (nuclear, thermonuclear, nontechnological ) and mass mind control. He has even traveled to the past to change history and to the future to escape it. All in vain. Meanwhile, Fatale, a cyborg with memory loss, has joined the world's most famous super team, the Champions. It's her first day, and she's ea...

 Book Review: Twin Landing by Rex Burke Read  Fantasy Book Critic 's review of  Orphan Planet , book one in the  Odyssey Earth series   here Buy  Orphan Planet , book one in the  Odyssey Earth series   here Pre-order  Twin Landing , book two in the  Odyssey Earth series   here OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO:  Rex Burke is a SciFi writer based in North Yorkshire, UK. When he was young, he read every one of those yellow-jacketed Victor Gollancz hardbacks in his local library. He’s sure there are still thrilling SciFi adventures to be told – even if he has to write them himself. When he’s not writing, he travels – one way or another, he’ll get to the stars, even if it’s just as stardust when his own story is done. OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB:    Typical. The colony ship, Odyssey Earth , travels fifty trillion miles without finding a habitable planet, and then two come along at once. The mission is not exactly going to plan for the set...

  Continuing from yesterday , here is part II of the  SPFBO 9 (2023) Intresting Titles (in random order). We would like to reiterate that both these lists are in no way an indicator of our choices (& other judges’ choices) going forward in the contest. These simply lists titles that we (at FBC) are INTRIGUED by and WOULD like to read (time & fate permitting).   Through dreams So Dark by Angela Boord Official Book Blurb:   Sergei is determined to put his broken family back together, no matter the danger. Not-rats and bugs hiding in his walls, listening to his conversations? He can live with that. The shadowy government organization trying to dig encoded information out of his nightmares? He’ll play along to learn what they know about his mother. If he has to destroy his college career, his love life, and the best friendship he’s ever had—with his roommate Cam—he’ll do that, too, if that’s what it takes. He’s the only one who believes his mother is still al...