Adrian Tchaikovsky is back […] with a story about a little household robot who makes a mess around the house one day. Dismayed that they’ve exceeded their programming (and it wasn’t entirely their fault), they do what all accidental murderers do: they run. And when they do, they discover a strange world where humanity is …
Here is a new book from Christopher Buehlman. The Daughters’ War is a prequel to The Backtongue Thief (in case you are tracking this sort of thing), and this one is about goblins, betrayal, and revenge. This one also has giant war corvids, which is kinda where we opened our wallets and spilled all our money on the counter. This …
Here is V. Castro’s Immortal Pleasures, which is the story of La Malinche, a Nahua woman who translated for Cortés back in the day. History hasn’t been kind to La Malinche, mostly due to the fact that Cortés left a lot of bodies in his wake. However, in Castro’s hands, La Malinche is reborn as …
Here is a debut novel. This is Argylle, a new spy thriller written by Elly Conway, now a motion picture starring lots of pretty people. The film is about a struggling writer who inadvertently exposes an international conspiracy in the plot of her book and the shenanigans that follow. The film stars Henry Cavill as …
Here is the next hot thing. Aurora Ascher’s Sanctuary of the Shadow is an epic romantasy about hot love interests, relatable main characters, fast female friends, and consensual “spice.” Lots of spice. Look, this character has secrets, and that character doesn’t know the secrets he carries, but it’s clear he’s not from around here. (The wings give it away.) But there’s …
We might as well mention My Effin’ Life, the memoir of Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, aka Geddy Lee, the bass player and vocalist for iconic Canadian prog rock band Rush. My Effin’ Life details Rush’s nearly five-decade-long run, wherein they accumulated more consecutive gold and platinum records than any rock band after those two bands from the UK. Sure, the …
What better way to embrace the encroaching darkness than to curl up with Lol Tolhurst’s Goth: A History. That’s right. One of the founding members of The Cure has written a book about the genre of Goth. It’s one of those weird moments that illuminate the entire structure of the Universe. If this thing is, …
Here is Mercury Stardust’s Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair. We’re happy advocates for self-reliance and Stardust’s book offers solutions to more than 50 simple home maintenance projects. Plumbing secrets! Electrical wizardry! Showerhead flow management! Take control of your life with Mercury Stardust! –A Good Book, Sumner, WA Celebrate DIY success stories and …
Here is Spencer Quinn’s Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge, which is the story of a 70-ish year old widow who gets caught up in a phone scam. The villains drain all of her bank accounts, like phone scammers do, and think they have hit the jackpot. Unfortunately (for them), Mrs. Plansky has recently had a hip replaced, and …
We thought we should take a moment to figure out who this “B. Dylan Hollis” fellow is (because his book is our lead-off title this week), and well, it’s an hour later now and we’re still watching YouTube videos. We blame Hollis’s infectious enthusiasm for margarine, wooden spoons, and recipes from the ‘70s. So, yeah, …
