~*Krissys Bookshelf Reviews*~

A Gathering of Shadows

V. E. Schwab

Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. As Red London prepares for an international magic competition, and a familiar pirate ship draws closer, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Delilah Bard.

Another London is coming back to life, and those who were thought to be forever gone have returned. Black London is rising again—and so to keep magic's balance, another London must fall.

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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?

Dragon Hunters

Marc Turner

Once a year on Dragon Day the fabled Dragon Gate is raised to allow a sea dragon pass from the Southern Wastes into the Sabian Sea. There, it will be hunted by the Storm Lords, a fellowship of powerful water-mages who rule an empire called the Storm Isles. This year, however, someone forgot to tell the dragon which is the hunter and which is the hunted.

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A Song For No Man's Land

Andy Remic

He signed up to fight with visions of honour and glory, of fighting for king and country, of making his family proud at long last.

But on a battlefield during the Great War, Robert Jones is shot, and wonders how it all went so very wrong, and how things could possibly get any worse.

He'll soon find out. When the attacking enemy starts to shapeshift into a nightmarish demonic force, Jones finds himself fighting an impossible war against an enemy that shouldn't exist.

Riders

Veronica Rossi

For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does. Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers; he has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse. Now, along with his fellow horsemen, Gideon must convince skeptical government officials that the world is in imminent danger—but will anyone believe him?

The Absconded Ambassador

Michael R. Underwood

Fiction is more important than you think. When stories go wrong, the Genrenauts step in to prevent the consequences from rippling into our so-called real world.

When a breach is discovered in Science Fiction World, rookie genrenaut Leah Tang gets her first taste of space flight.

A peace treaty is about to be signed on space station Ahura-3, guaranteeing the end of hostilities between some of the galaxy's most ferocious races, but when the head architect of the treaty is unexpectedly kidnapped, it's up to Leah and her new colleagues to save the day.