Clik here to view.
The Toby Daye Series by Seanan McGuire
With Book 10, Once Broken Faith, out on Tuesday, September 6, here is a primer on Seanan McGuire’s best-selling series… Synopsis: A young half-fae, after spending her teens as a street rat in San...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Beginning of the End…
Everywhere the faithful are gathering in churches, in meadows, and on hilltops. Preparations have been underway for a long time, and many have given away their possessions and renounced all worldly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Harry Potter Reread: Back to Magic School!
I truly believe, in the same slightly-insane way I believe all my favorite fictional worlds are secretly real and I’m in them, that if I’d gone to Hogwarts I would have been sorted into Ravenclaw. So...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques
Redwall (1986), followed by twenty-one more books… Published by Puffin/Philomel Books GRADE: A Now that society has a certain… open-mindedness about certain touchy subjects, someone like me can come...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Books — September 6, 2016
Books out today… FEATURED TITLES BUY IT HERE Deja Who (Insighter #1) by Maryjanice Davidson. Urban Fantasy, Berkley You couldn’t arrest for murder someone who had killed in his last life. You couldn’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jackaby, Neal Stephenson, Miss Peregrine and More
I am reading the steampunk/UF Sherlock Holmes homage Jackaby by William Ritter. An emblematic quote: “Jackaby…had a way of opening that corner of my brain. It was a quiet little corner in which I had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
In this weekly series, we bring you the genre novels you really should have read by now… THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J. R. R. Tolkien First Published: The Fellowship of the Ring – 1954 The Two Towers –...
View ArticleSchools for Sorcerers, Space Cadets and Supernatural Sorts
[See image gallery at geekspeakmagazine.com]
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
The Book of Three (1964), The Black Cauldron (1965), The Castle of Llyr (1966), Taran Wanderer (1967), The High King (1968) Published by Henry Holt and Co. GRADE: A The Chronicles of Prydain could...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Books — September 13, 2016
Books out today… FEATURED TITLES BUY IT HERE A Shattered Empire (Sorcery Ascendant Sequence #3) by Mitchell Hogan. High Fantasy, Harper Voyager After young Caldan’s parents were slain, a group of monks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Company Town, the Iron Druid, Space Sports and More
Each week, our crack staff shares their current reading choices… BUY IT HERE I am reading Company Town by Madeline Ashby. The book follows Hwa, a bodyguard for sex workers living on an offshore oil rig...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
In this weekly series, we bring you the genre novels you really should have read by now… THE CHRYSALIDS by John Wyndham aka Re-Birth (US Title) First Published: 1955 Genre: SF, YA Subgenre:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tomorrow, When The War Began (2010)
A weekly look at transformative works, and just how they compare to their source material… TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN (2010) Based on the novel by John Marsden Adaptation Grade: A ELLIE: I already...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Geek Dilemma #1
Dear Geek Gurus, My favorite author’s latest works have been very difficult to read. They are too long and too repetitive; it’s like he got so successful they decided to stop editing him entirely. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
INRODUCTION | SERIES Lets get this out of the way early: rereading Chamber of Secrets this week, no longer the innocent youth I was at first exposure to the Potterverse, was quite a chore. It’s easily...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sad Monsters by Frank Lesser
BUY IT HERE A collection of various and hilarious shorts about the personal lives of monsters. “Dear Sir or Madam: I am writing this letter of reference on behalf of Tulpa Snarlgrowl. Although you may...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Books — September 20, 2016
Books released today… FEATURED TITLES BUY IT HERE Deadlands: Thunder Moon Rising (Deadlands #2) by Jeffrey Mariotte. Historical Fantasy, Tor Books Fear is abroad in the Deadlands as a string of brutal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exploring the Potterverse, Courtesy of Pottermore…
Each week, our crack staff shares their current reading choices… BUY IT HERE I’m re-reading Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn (in preparation for the Great Twelve Houses Reread for Geek Speak, coming...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BOOK REVIEW: Once Broken Faith (Toby Daye #10) by Seanan McGuire
BUY IT HERE “What happened?” she asked. “The same thing that always happens,” I said. “We were having a perfectly nice evening until it got ruined by a corpse.” Her smile was full of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
In this weekly series, we bring you the genre novels you really should have read by now… BUY IT HERE FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keyes First Published: Short story, 1958; Novel, 1966 Genre: Science...
View Article