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Fantasy Novels & Graphic Novels

The After World: a novel Review Available in paperback (love this editions cover) 5 stars What a bleak, awesome, creative, masterful, apocalyptic dystopian novel that subtly pays homage to many works published before of the same genre without being obvious. It is meta in many ways, futuristic, unrealistic, yet completely possible as a future for our demise as a human race, ignoring climate change. The narrator is unique, and the last pages will turn the entire novel into some

Audio arc with @librofm and @macmillan.audio #MacAudio2024 Cerulean Blue #2 barely requires introductions. #somewherebeyondthesea is like the first volume but even more. Wonderful found family Humorous kids characters Being oneself Being free to choose who to be Many life lessons The hardships and fears of a parent A better world Qotd: have you read this author ? Which one is your fav title My fav is The Lives of Puppets Release Day: Sept 10 By #tjklune #tjklunebooks #booksta

My 7 reasons to read this series Paperback Release of Devil's Gun Book 2 by Cat Rambo. 1. Found Family on a quest 2. Sentient space ship 3. Diverse characters (even aliens) 4. Have I mentioned Thing the Sentient AI ship 🩷 5. Fast pace, Action Adventure 6. Nasty villain (general violence more in book 1 less and more emotional in book 2) 7. Great balance between sad/emotional scenes and humor It's a Disco Space Opera and I am a fan. Book 2 is my favorite volume so far because

Review: #thelastmurderattheendoftheworld As a murder mystery, it's a 4, but as a sci-fi dystopian, it's a 5 for me. My favorite part was not one chapter or a unique scene, but the entire novel as a whole after finishing and looking back. Although it has a lot of great moments, lines, and plot twists, it only works if we don't skip, not even one paragraph. The main character is a person who has a skill that doesn't fit the world she lives in. To them, she is useless. She qu

Weekend Read. I am so grateful that B&N re-opened in Chicago. I was so sad to see all the stores gone. One just opened this past Wednesday, and the second will open on June 26th. Very happy. 4.75 stars I couldn't resist jumping into this book as a huge fan of survival novels, nature vs. men. James Patterson takes Michael Crichton's manuscript into a thrilling non-stop adventure to the islands of Hawaii. The big one will erupt soon, but that is not the only concern it may end

#Netgalley Not (yet) Approved 10...9... 8... 7... Godbye 2023 and one book I am very excited about in 2024. Ghost Station Pub Date 09 Apr 2024 | @torbooks Horror | Sci-Fi & Fantasy "A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence." 🍓After a few months I still think about DEAD SILENCE and remember this book and I like it more, some of the visual descriptions and events are still fre