If there were a genre for a book that includes the Old West, an alternate American history, a rebel Mormon kingdom, a slave-free Confederacy, more than a bit of steam punk, fantasy, and an all star cast of historical-larger-than-life-and-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction characters, I don’t know what it would be called, but City of the Saints by D.J. Butler has […]
Archives for 2014
Book Review | Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
2014-02-24 · by ·
Sitting on my shelf for well over half a decade, thick black and heavy, there was something oppressive about the cover that kept me away. Nearly ten years after publication, I finally cracked it, and I can’t figure out why I waited so long. Of course, everything looks different in retrospect, and I wish that […]
February Kindle Fire HDX Giveaways!
2014-02-02 · by ·
How about a Giveaway to kick off your week? Win a Kindle Fire HDX, Amazon Gift Card or Paypal Cash ($229 value) This is a joint AUTHOR & BLOGGER GIVEAWAY EVENT! Bloggers & Authors have joined together and each chipped in a little money towards a Kindle Fire HDX 7″. All New Kindle Fire […]
Book Review | The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
2014-02-02 · by ·
On the rare occasion when I watch a movie based on a book, I am not typically likely to hold the movie up to the book for comparison. They are separate works, and I judge them separately. Such is not always the case. With The Color of Magic, the movie version of The Color of […]
Book Review | Heartwood by Freya Robertson [Contributor]
2014-01-30 · by ·
Heartwood is the first in a series called Elemental Wars. It is set in a land of knights where countries are torn by war. The one thing that ties them together is a the Arbor, a holy tree. The tree is the center of their religion, their culture, and their land. As the story opens, […]
Book Review | V Wars edited by Jonathan Maberry
2014-01-14 · by ·
V Wars, edited by Jonathan Maberry, is a collection of stories set in the same world but written by a bevy of talented authors. In the world Maberry creates in V Wars, a prehistoric virus has been released from polar ice, awakening recessive genes in the human genome. The virus triggers changes in some humans, […]
Book Review | The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath by Nicco Mele
2014-01-13 · by ·
If Thomas Friedman‘s thesis in his 2005 The World Is Flat is that globalization has led to a flatter playing field, then The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath tells the author Nicco Mele’s vision that the ultimate tool of that equalization is the internet. In truth, it’s not a hard […]
A note to writers, courtesy David Farland
2014-01-06 · by ·
Here at Attack of the Books! we receive a fair amount of queries to read new books. Most of them are by new authors, often self-published, and each is a labor of love. Unfortunately, because Britt and I are not independently wealthy (yet–we’re still trying to figure out how people “make money on the internet”), […]
Book Review | Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown by Wiedemer, Wiedemer, and Spitzer
2014-01-05 · by ·
I can’t recall who exactly recommended this to me when I first picked this up back in 2010 or 2011, but I do recall the cautionary note that they took as they described it and the author’s conclusions. The global recession had begun four years earlier, since which time I had just barely been able […]
Short Review | Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages by Jean Gimpel
2014-01-04 · by ·
The medieval ages were far more like our modern age than we often think. The only thing that came to my mind prior to reading this book was knights and castles. Hardly a dark age as often portrayed, the period was full of industrial innovation, and Jean Gimpel makes an interesting survey of some of […]
