Honor’s Knight by Rachel Bach – Review
Publisher’s Description: Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she’s determined to...
View ArticleMarrow’s Pit by Keith Deininger – Review
Publisher’s Description: Built to encompass the entire range of lifeless mountains, it had always, relentlessly, clanked on and on. Within, vast halls and endless corridors were filled with the sounds...
View ArticleShards of Time by Lynn Flewelling – Review
Publisher’s Description: The governor of the sacred island of Korous and his mistress have been killed inside a locked and guarded room. The sole witnesses to the crime—guards who broke down the doors,...
View ArticleThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison – Review
Publisher’s Description: The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father...
View ArticleThe Martian by Andy Weir – review
The Martian is not a new book, having been self-published in 2012 after author Andy Weir failed to attract the interest of any literary agents. However, it sold well enough through other outlets to...
View ArticleHeaven’s Queen by Rachel Bach – Review
Publisher’s Description: From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell’s doomed ship, Devi Morris’ life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her...
View ArticleThe Foundry’s Edge (First Book of Ore) by Cam Baity and Benny Zelcowicz – Review
Publisher’s Description: Two kids on a rescue mission. A mysterious realm of living metal. One secret that will change the world. For Phoebe Plumm, life in affluent Meridian revolves around trading...
View ArticleThe Ophelia Prophecy by Sharon Lynn Fisher – review
In her second book, author Sharon Lynn Fisher has created a variation on a post-apocalyptic world as a setting for a science fiction romance. In The Ophelia Prophecy, rampant genetic engineering led to...
View ArticleThe Oversight by Charlie Fletcher – Review
Publisher’s Description: Only five still guard the borders between the worlds. Only five hold back what waits on the other side. Once the Oversight, the secret society that policed the lines between...
View ArticleDeadly Curiosities by Gail Z. Martin – Review
Publisher’s Description: Cassidy Kincaide owns Trifles & Folly, an antique/curio store and high-end pawn shop in Charleston, South Carolina, that is more than what it seems. Dangerous magical and...
View ArticleCrown of Renewal by Elizabeth Moon – Review
Publisher’s Description: Eight kingdoms in danger, an enemy that cannot die… Count Jed Drin has received a grisly message. His son, Filis, is dead, brutally killed by Alured the Black – the first move...
View ArticleGreat North Road by Peter F. Hamilton – review
Any time I start reading a Peter F. Hamilton novel, I go in with the understanding that I will be committing a significant amount of time and a not inconsiderable chunk of brain power to the endeavor....
View ArticleSkin Game by Jim Butcher – review
Editor’s note - this review of Skin Game (Book 15 of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher) is based on the audiobook version, narrated by James Marsters. ** SPOILER ALERT: If you have been reading The...
View ArticlePirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow – Review
The worlds of creativity and copyright law often end up at odds with each other. While the concept of remixing existing works into new pieces of art is nothing new, the amount of any one piece you’re...
View ArticleJani and the Greater Game by Eric Brown – Review
P ublisher’s Description: Jani and the Greater Game is the first book in a rip-roaring, spice-laden, steampunk action adventure series set in India and featuring a heroine who subverts all the...
View ArticleThe Young World by Chris Weitz – Reveiw
Publisher’s Description: Welcome to New York, a city ruled by teens. After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson,...
View ArticleGetting from There to Here – by Rachel Saunders
BSC Review is pleased to present our readers with an insider’s perspective on running a Kickstarter campaign to finance a self-publishing launch in a huge way. Author Rachel Saunders will be keeping us...
View ArticleThe Girl and the Clockwork Cat by Nikki McCormack – review
Publisher’s Description: Feisty teenage thief Maeko and her maybe-more-than-friend Chaff have scraped out an existence in Victorian London’s gritty streets, but after a near-disastrous heist leads her...
View ArticleThe Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry – review
Editor’s note: This book is scheduled to be published September 23, 2014. Publisher’s Description: The students of St. Etheldreda’s School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible...
View ArticleThe Wicked by Douglas Nicholas – review
While The Wicked is a sequel to Douglas Nicholas’ debut novel, Something Red, it is easily read as a stand-alone story. Set in the north of England in the thirteenth century, this work of historic...
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