The Salarian Desert Game

  Title: The Salarian Desert Game Author: J.A. Mclachlan Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Pub. Date: 12 April 2016 Genre: YA, Sci-Fi, suspense, adventure     Kia is a young girl, a talented interpreter asked to go undercover for a mysterious and powerful agency, but the timing means she has an undercover agenda…

Wipe

Title: Wipe Author: Joseph Turkot Publisher: Indie Pub. Date: 5 August, 2014 Genre: YA, Post-Apoc, Spec Fic   This review is for the omnibus – parts 1-5, the complete series.   Long after the world-as-we-know-it ended, civilization has pooled into communities held together by dogma of one sort or another. In Acadia, Maze and Wills…

Terminal City

Title: Terminal City Author: Trevor Melanson Publisher: Edge-Lite Pub. Date: 24 April, 2016 Series: Terminal City Saga #1 Genre: Spec-Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary   Mason Cross is embarking on a new life in more ways than just going to college. When he moves in to the house he inherited from his dead father and…

Kids of Appetite

Title: Kids of Appetite Author: David Arnold Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 20 September, 2016 Genre: YA, urban fiction, adventure, contemporary, recommended As the police interrogate several witnesses, the incredible story unfolds. After Vic suffers one too many losses, he becomes lost himself. Luckily, he is found by Mad and her group…

Wirewalker

Title: Wirewalker Author: Mary Lou Hall Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 6 September, 2016 Genre: YA, fiction     From the publisher: “Fourteen-year-old Clarence Feather knows no world beyond desolate Mayfair Heights. Three years ago, his mother was killed before his eyes by a stray bullet. When his father becomes unable to…

A Time of Torment

Title: A Time of Torment Author: John Connolly Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books Pub. Date: 2 August, 2016 Series: Charlie Parker #14 Genre: Fantasy, Detective, Suspense Thriller   Detective Charlie Parker is back to continue the hunt for supernatural bad guys. This time the hard-boiled agent has to overcome the forces of the Dead King to…

Apocalypse Now Now

Title: Apocalypse Now Now Author: Charlie Human Narrator: David Atlas, Fiona Hardingham Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: 1 October, 2015 Genre: Urban Fantasy Recommended for ages 16 and up   Baxter is in trouble. He needs to save his girlfriend and decide to either protect the world or rule it, but he is just an…

The Far Empty

Title: The Far Empty Author: J. Todd Scott Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Pub. Date: 7 June 2016 Genre: Contemporary Western Crime Fiction, thriller   Sheriff Ross is a powerful man. There is no doubt in the minds of his deputies, the citizens of border-town Murfee, Texas, and the rest of the country.  A hero. But…

The Never-Open Desert Diner

Title: The Never-Open Desert Diner Author::James Anderson Publisher: Crown Publication Date: 22 March, 2016   In the Utah desert, there is a highway that ends in a magical bit of nowhere surrounded by mesa and unforgiving wastes. It is here, from one isolated end of Route 117 to the other, that Ben Jones delivers strange…

Before the Fall

Title: Before the Fall Author: Noah Hawley Publisher: Hachette Audio (audiobook), Grand Central Publishing (print) Pub. Date: 31 May, 2016 Genre: Suspense, Thriller   After surviving a plane crash, painter Scott Burroughs is plunged into another nightmare alongside the four year old boy he rescued. With both still in shock, he finds the world seemingly…

Sick on You

  Title: Sick on You Author: Andrew Matheson Publisher: Penguin Random House Publication Date: 2 August, 2016     First off, I put off reading this one because I thought it was a YA romance. I didn’t even look past the bold title on the cover (not the part that actually says what the book…

Wolves

Title: Wolves Author: D. J. Molles Publisher: Blackstone Pub. Date: (projected) 30 Aug. 2016 Genre: Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Recommended   With nothing left to lose, Huxley, a man driven by grief to become a force of destruction, moves across the land toward a singular vengeful goal. He seeks his daughter, and the death of man…