Friday Finds

I really enjoyed Ari Marmell's The Conqueror's Shadow and have been looking forward to his upcoming fantasy Thief's Covenant, though I only just discovered that it was coming out really soon. And I love this cover! The Thief's Covenant by Ari Marmell Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the ranks of the city’s aristocracy in a rags-to-riches story straight from an ancient fairy...

Free Audiobook: Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

The Guardian is once again offering several free audio books and today's offer is for Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western Philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx and Freud) with a mysterious mentor. But Sophie is also receiving a second batch...

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

"Let me make it in time. Let me meet Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests. Paints guys with grass growing from their hearts and girls with buzzing lawn mowers." It’s the end of Year 12. Lucy’s looking for Shadow, the graffiti artist everyone talks about. His work is all over the city, but he is nowhere. Ed, the last guy she wants to see at the moment, says he knows where to...

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of January 29

Science Fiction Mass Effect: Deception (Mass Effect #4) William C. DietzPublisher: Del ReyRelease Date: January 31 The universe is under siege. Every fifty thousand years, a race of sentient machines invades our galaxy to harvest all organic life-forms. They are the Reapers. Two people who know the truth are desperately searching for a way to stop the cycle: Navy admiral David Anderson and his partner, Kahlee Sanders. They have uncovered...