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Slyphic rated American elsewhere: 4 stars
American elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
Some places are too good to be true.
Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not …
Slyphic rated The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall, #1): 4 stars
Slyphic rated The Empty Grave: 4 stars
Jonathan Stroud: The Empty Grave (EBook, 2017, Disney-Hyperion)
The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co, #5)
Five months after the events in THE CREEPING SHADOW, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps …
Slyphic rated The Creeping Shadow: 4 stars
Jonathan Stroud: The Creeping Shadow (2016)
The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #4)
After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring herself out …
Slyphic rated The Hollow Boy: 4 stars
Jonathan Stroud: The Hollow Boy (2015)
The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #3)
As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to …
Slyphic rated The Whispering Skull: 4 stars
The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #2)
In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood …
Slyphic rated The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1): 4 stars
Slyphic rated Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall): 4 stars
Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall) by Walter Jon Williams
The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- …
Slyphic rated The sundering: 4 stars
The sundering by Walter Jon Williams (Dread empire's fall)
The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive …
Slyphic rated Spoonbenders: 5 stars
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
Spoonbenders is a fantasy novel by American writer Daryl Gregory, published in 2017 by Knopf. It follows the rise and …
Slyphic rated The Refrigerator Monologues: 5 stars
Catherynne M. Valente: The Refrigerator Monologues (2017)
The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente
The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.
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Slyphic rated Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1): 4 stars
Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) (2006)
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) by Richard K. Morgan
It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in …
Slyphic rated Space Opera: 5 stars
Slyphic rated Every Heart a Doorway: 3 stars
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #1)
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of …