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Book of the Week: The Dragon and the Skull (Brave New Disorder Book 2)

I picked up the first book in the Brave New Disorder series (Grey War) a little while ago: there’s nothing supernatural, science fictional, or horrific in the series just yet, but Peter Nealen can actually write, so we’ll forgive him that inexplicable oversight. So far, The Dragon and the Skull looks very fun, especially if you like your fight scenes written by people who have some knowledge as to how a gunfight might go*.

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*Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I don’t, really. I also don’t care, on the principle that quite a lot of good action literature has been written by people who weren’t combat-literate. It’s not like they suddenly passed a law forbidding me from just making stuff up.

Book of the Week: This Bird Has Flown.

I actually have to sit down and read Susanna Hoffs’s This Bird Has Flown, because it’s been a weird two weeks. It’s totally not my usual fare, but… I dunno. I like Hoffs. I picked up that collection of covers that she did with Matthew Sweet, and it was good! The idea of people succeeding weirdly in the entertainment industry appeals to me, I guess.

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Book of the Week: Walking Through Dreams.

I won’t deny that Walking Through Dreams (Lands of Red and Gold Book 1) by Jared Kavanagh is for a particular kind of reader. Said reader would have to like: alternate history; a book that establishes the narrative in the first chapter, then spends about seventy-five percent of the book establishing the changes that occurred from having Australia acquire a staple crop that would permit settled agriculture; and then going back to the narrative, once you’ve been given the basic details about this utterly changed continent at the point when the Dutch stumbled upon it. …I happen to like all of that, sure. But even I can admit that it seems weird, when I write it all out like this.

Book of the Week: COVENANTS.

Shocking, yes. And by shocking I mean No, not really. COVENANTS is certainly my Book of the Week; your mileage, as always, may vary.


Four tales of agreements! Follow along as MARIE VISITS THE CONTINENT, on a mission of delicacy, and monsters. Sally forth with Duchess Carlotta into a zombie-haunted world as she takes THE QUEST FROM CASTLE WINDERMERE. Go on a TOUR OF DUTY in the interstellar spaces between charnel worlds. And lastly, discover with our horrified narrator that, after long, long years… THE STARS ARE WRONG. Enjoy! (Four stories, fifty eight thousand words total, each with its own illustration.)

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Book of the Week: This Bird Has Flown.

This Bird Has Flown is not to my usual taste, I freely admit. But its author Susanna Hoffs is. Not that I know her or anything, but it ain’t easy to just get up one day and write a book. So: I have decided that if I can do her a favor, I will. Putting up a link to her first novel (coming out in April) qualifies as such, however minor.

Book of the Week: Gray War.

Basically, Larry Correia did Peter Nealen a favor by telling everybody to read Gray War: A Pallas Group Solutions Thriller. I decided to give it a spin. I mean, five bucks, right? And God knows I wouldn’t object to getting Correia to do the same for me*.

Turns out Gray War’s a fun book that I normally wouldn’t read because it’s straight military thriller, with no supernatural or science fictional elements to it. I don’t feel bad about not reading more of that, because I have tons to read already. But I figure I’m gonna finish this series.

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