Chuck Wendig (Blackbirds; 2012) returns with a new Miriam Black adventure.
Encompassing the same subversive vibe as its predecessor, Mockingbird begins with the irrepressible Miriam Black taking a stab at domestication.
Now residing at a permanent address in the form of a double-wide, moored in an area rife with tweakers and dirt bags, Miriam passes the time as a cashier in a local sundries store. With her gentle-giant, Louis, on the road most of the time, and her nagging, obnoxious boss, Peggy, breathing down her neck everyday, it's no shock that Miriam begins to feel contained.
As a reviewer and former publishing minion, I am inundated with books. It has literally been years since I’ve gone into a bookstore to see what’s new and exciting—mainly because my days of reading “for fun” are few and far between and, I’m actually an on-line shopping kind of girl.
As a child, young Aoife showed promise of being a skilled mapmaker. After experiencing the incredible fulfillment it gave her, she rebels against her fate of becoming a simple wife, mother, and domestic—a gender prescribed internment that takes very little of a woman’s true self into account—negotiating instead for an apprenticeship.
Not only does she yearn to have freedom and privileges—a sin in her mother's eyes—but Aoife also covets the love of Wyl, a prince promised to another.
On her 19th birthday, Zora Adams looks on as her mother gets ready for a date. Dressed like her favorite celebrity, Judy Garland, her mother’s promise to be home in time to cut the cake falls on deaf ears—mainly because Mama’s already slurring and there is no cake.
After being orphaned, Fia and her older sister Annie find themselves at a special school.
With promises of a good education and medical assistance for Annie, Fia agrees to attend the Keane School despite her entire body screaming that it’s wrong. Not long after their arrival, the girls realize that they’re nothing more than pawns in a dangerous game being played by the school’s owner.
David Anderson has been an agent of death—a grim reaper—for the past 60 years.
During his time in the Korean War, David humanely ended the lives of two badly suffering fellow soldiers and, after losing his own life the next day, found himself back on the battlefield collecting souls.
One of my favorite parts of running the BookFetish site is hearing from all the up-and-coming writers who are trying to navigate through all the noise of the internet, and get their book noticed.
Unfortunately, due to the overwhelming volume of requests—and an average life expectancy—I have to turn down way more requests than I’d like to. It pains me to think of all the fantastic writing I’m missing, so it’s even more rewarding when I receive a book that just resonates.
Whether that resonation is due to the voice, writing style or topic, it’s hard to say, but one of my latest reads, Triceratops by Marcus Gorman (read review here) has it all—including a fantastic cover.
I was introduced to Mark SaFranko’s work after receiving a galley of Hating Olivia: A Love Story from Harper Perennial in 2010 (read review here). Surrounded by towering stacks of yet-to-be read books, I arbitrarily picked up Olivia and began reading. Two hours later I turned the final page. 
Initially published with an independent press, Peter Golden is finding new renewed success after Simon and Schuster’s Atria imprint saw the untapped potential in Comeback Love.
Lynn Messina has gone where no woman has ever gone before—and hopefully never will: zombie sex. In her new book The Girls’ Guide to Dating Zombies Lynn has put a whole new twist on the zombie genre.
Chris F. Holm’s noir/urban fantasy mash-up novel Dead Harvest: The Collector Book One has just been released by Angry Robot Books. To say that this book is utterly fantastic would be an understatement. 