Risingshadow: June 2021 Edition

Bruce Woods' American Blood was published by Penmore Press in October 2020. [author_10899] [book_62538_quote_right] REVIEW: AMERICAN BLOOD BY BRUCE WOODS [read more]

Vaughn Entwistle's Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley and Her Monster was published in October 2020. [author_9261] [book_63228_quote_right] REVIEW: HIDEOUS PROGENY: MARY SHELLEY AND HER MONSTER BY VAUGHN ENTWISTLE [read more]

Risingshadow has an opportunity to feature a guest post by Robin Bennett, who is the author of Buk. [book_63160_quote_right] GUEST POST: The Alchemy of Imagination by Robin Bennett [read more]

Michael Johnston's Soleri was published by Tor Books in June 2017. [author_6771] [book_51711_quote_right] REVIEW: SOLERI BY MICHAEL JOHNSTON [read more]

Risingshadow has had an opportunity to interview Brett Salter, who is the author of The Talisman Series. [author_11757_quote] About The Talisman Series: The Talisman Series will reveal the clandestine workings of the dragons and their knights who embrace the role of protecting our world from The Tyrant King and his evil minions. Whichever side controls the Talismans and their magic will determine the destiny of the world. The question is, what are these Talismans, and how can they be used for the good of humanity and the dragon dens? Read along to find out! AN INTERVIEW WITH BRETT SALTER [read more]

Risingshadow has an opportunity to feature a guest post by D. Hale Rambo, who is the author of Tools of a Thief. [author_11763] [book_63203_quote_right] GUEST POST BY D. HALE RAMBO [read more]

Risingshadow has an opportunity to feature a guest post by Rachel Hobbs. [author_11760] [book_63196_quote_right] GUEST POST: Beyond Darkness: A Shadow-Stained Journey by Rachel Hobbs [read more]

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very ... [read more]

Science FictionMovie

(Realm Breaker #1)

Who is left when the heroes fall? Corayne lives at the end of the world. Year after year, she watches her pirate mother sail away to adventures she'll never share with Corayne. So when a mysterious immortal and deadly assassin appear on Corayne's doorstep telling her she is the last member of a dying bloodline, and the only one who can save the world, Corayne seizes the chance to have her own adventure. But the world is in graver danger than they ever imagined; Corayne and her rag-tag group ... [read more]

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(Bloodsworn Saga #1)

From acclaimed fantasy author John Gwynne comes the first in the Bloodsworn trilogy, an epic of wild lands and wilder magic, where not all monsters fight with tooth and claw... and the treasures of the gods come at a price. This is the age of storm and murder. After the old gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigrio. Now, power-hungry jarls carve out petty kingdoms, and monsters stalk the shadow-haunted woods and mountains. A ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(Wings of Fire Graphix)

Write your legend, draw your destiny, and take flight! The legend starts with you! Do you love to draw or write? Do you have your very own dragon stories to tell? In this official Wings of Fire journal, you'll design awesome characters, imagine new adventures, and forge YOUR fantasy world!With examples from Wings of Fire graphic artist Mike Holmes, Tui T. Sutherland guides you through the #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series in a more interactive and exciting way than ever before.Spread your wings with your very own graphic story creation! [read more]

FantasyComicsDragonsMiddle GradeGraphic Novels

(The Billion Worlds #1)

Science fiction at its sense-of-wonder best. A wild chase through the billion worlds of the Tenth Millennium in search of a mythical weapon that could save civilization — or doom it! A DROID AND HIS BOY Daslakh is an AI with a problem. Its favorite human, a young man named Zee, is in love with a woman who never existed — and he will scour the Solar System to find her. But in the Tenth Millennium a billion worlds circle the Sun — everything from terraformed planets to artificial habitats, ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(Blacktongue #1)

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos, Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief begins a 'dazzling' (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other. Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(The Final Architects Trilogy #1)

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary new space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery... Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyed, mankind ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(Infinite Realm #2)

New adventures in the Infinite Realm! Zach and Ryun had both reached the Infinite Realm. As the only two survivors of the old Earth, they are the strongest Rankers that had ever arrived in the Infinite Realm. Both dropped outside of the usual arrival zone, and left to fend for themselves. Each had found a way to survive. Ryun is now a Sect Head, tasked with ruling territories and people. Accepting their service in return for his protection. But while he was the strongest being on Earth, he is ... [read more]

FantasyLitRPG

(Shadow Riders #6)

A long-simmering feud between two families comes to a head in this gripping novel in Christine Feehan's New York Times bestselling Shadow Riders series. As the youngest member of the Ferraro family, Emmanuelle has watched each of her brothers find happiness in love while her own heart was shattered by a lover’s betrayal. For two years she’s stayed as far away from Valentino Saldi as possible — until she learns that he’s been shot during a hostile takeover of his family’s ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal RomanceUrban Fantasy

(The Dark One #1)

From Hugo Award winning, New York Times Best-Selling author, Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Trilogy, The Stormlight Archive series) comes DARK ONE, a new graphic novel series from Vault Comics. Paul is a young man who sees visions of strange and fantastic worlds ― visions he initially believes are hallucinations. But these visions turn out to be prophesies, dark projections of a world in which Paul is a tyrant who destroys the world and the creatures that reside there. Dark One examines the dual roles we often take on in life - the ability to be a savior as well as a destroyer. [read more]

FantasyComicsGraphic Novels

Cath is a photographer hoping to go freelance, working in a record shop to pay the rent and eking out her time with her manager Steve. He thinks her photography is detective work, drawing attention to things that would otherwise pass unseen and maybe he's right... Starting work on her new project - photographing murder houses - she returns to the island where she grew up for the first time since she left for Glasgow when she was just eighteen. The Isle of Bute is embedded in her identity, the ... [read more]

Fantasy

(The Lair of the Wolven #1)

A heart-pounding new series set in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world, with a scientist fighting to save the timber wolves — and getting caught in a deadly trap herself... Lydia Susi is passionate about protecting wolves in their natural habitat. When a hotel chain develops a tract of land next to the preserve, Lydia is one of the most vocal opponents of the project—and becomes a target. One night, a shadowy figure threatens Lydia’s life in the forest, and a new hire at the Wolf Study ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal Romance

(The Cemeteries of Amalo #1)

At once intimate and literally operatic, it's everything I love about Katherine Addison's writing, in ways I didn't know to expect. I loved it. - John Scalzi Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, The Goblin Emperor, in this stand-alone sequel When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father's Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(The Grand Game #1)

One man. Assassin. Caster. A new world. And a Game that is as brutal as it is complex.Michael finds himself in the realm of the Forever Kingdom, with no memory of how he got there and who he is. Even so, he must participate in the Grand Game and forge a new destiny for himself. Dropped into a dungeon of monsters, and strange magics, would you survive in a Game where to lose means death?Alone, and with little more than his wits to aid him, Michael must advance as a player, slay his foes, and ... [read more]

FantasyLitRPG

(Ascent to Empire #1)

A NEW MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE HONOR HARRINGTON SERIES DAVID WEBER AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR RICHARD FOX Six Billion Dead — And One Man Intent on Putting a Stop to the Killing For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another. The death toll has climbed ever higher, year after year, with no end in sight. But the members of the Five Hundred, the social elite of the Republic's ... [read more]

Science FictionMilitary Science Fiction

An astonishing, richly interwoven story from #1 bestselling author Joanne M. Harris (The Gospel of Loki, Chocolat), beautifully illustrated by the multiple award-winning Charles Vess (Stardust, The Books of Earthsea). Long ago and far away,Far away and long ago,The World was honeycomb, we know,The Worlds were honeycomb. The beauty of stories is that you never know where they will take you. Full of dreams and nightmares, Honeycomb is an entrancing mosaic novel of original fairy tales from ... [read more]

FantasyShort Stories

The Emperor is dead. Long live the Empire. General Bordan has a lifetime of duty and sacrifice behind him in the service of the Empire. But with rebellion brewing in the countryside, and assassins, thieves and politicians vying for power in the city, it’s all Bordan can do to protect the heir to the throne. Apprentice Magician Kyron is assigned to the late Emperor’s honour guard escorting his body on the long road back to the capital. Mistrusted and feared by his own people, even a ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(The Chronicles of Elantra #16)

WHO WILL CLAIM THE TOWER? After the near-destruction of the High Halls, Corporal Kaylin Neya is looking forward to resuming her patrol. But once more an empty Tower stands in Elantra, and Kaylin’s companions won’t let an advantage slip by. They see the Tower as a base to fight Shadow. The Dragon Bellusdeo as a protection for the cohort; Sedarias as a potential hoard. And others are interested as well. Kaylin knows when she’s in over her head. Claiming a Tower is not the future she ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh FantasyUrban Fantasy

(The Harbinger #3)

Danger, betrayal, and enticing forbidden love clash in book three of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Harbinger trilogy! When Angels Fall Trinity Marrow has lost the battle and her beloved Protector. Even with both demons and Wardens on her side, Trin may not win the war against the Harbinger. Bringing Lucifer back to the world to fight the Harbinger is probably a really, really bad idea, but they’re out of options — and the world’s ultimate fallen ... [read more]

FantasyYoung Adult

(Joseph Bridgeman #2)

A time traveler's work is never done. Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed. Blackmailed into accepting a new mission, Joe is flung back to 1960s London where he comes face-to-face with a ruthless gangster and witnesses the brutal murder of an innocent woman. Joe ... [read more]

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