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Featured Fantasy: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

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When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever.

After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish—into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all the way to the front lines of battle: for her brother, the fate of mankind, and love.

Shadow and Bone meets Lore in Rebecca Ross’s Divine Rivals, an epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.

Featured Sci-fi: Seeds of War Series by Lawrence M. Schoen and Col. Jonathan P. Brazee

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Featured Sci-fi: Seeds of War Series by Lawrence M. Schoen and Col. Jonathan P. Brazee

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“Invasion!” That’s what retired Marine Lieutenant General Colby Edison calls it when his farm is overrun by a horde of alien plants, leafy gremlin-like creatures that begin systematically destroying first his crops and then his home. And not just his farm, but all the surrounding farms as well. The relentless plants have apparently killed his neighbors, and clearly he and his dog Duke are next. But as a retired Marine, Colby has resources and skills not shared by other farmers on the newly terraformed agricultural world of Vasquez and soon he is bringing the fight to the invaders.

Except. . . who is really invading whom? High in orbit above Vasquez, a sentient vegetable studies the planet it had seeded and sculpted centuries before, laying it out as a world-sized garden. Now, returning to inspect the progress of its work, it finds its art has been tainted by the intrusion of crop grids, farm buildings, and people, all of which must be purged if the garden is to endure.

When two species clash, only one will survive.

Former psychology professor Lawrence M. Schoen and retired Marine Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee join forces in this first volume of the SEEDS OF WAR trilogy, pitting Marine against Gardener, with the fate of all of humanity hanging in the balance.

Featured Sci-fi: BuyMort Grand Opening (Shopocalypse Saga Book 1) by Damien Hanson

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In a world sold to the highest bidder, can Tyson save humanity from the insatiable greed of the universe?

When humanity finally fell, it wasn’t to war or disease—it was to shopping. BuyMort, the newest and last store to set up shop on Earth. The end of the world as everyone knew it.

Welcome to the Shopocalypse, the everything-must-go never again sales event that just lost us our world.

But not everything is lost. Meet Tyson, a no-cares slacker with a traumatic past, two wrinkled bucks in his wallet and a crap job caretaking a crap campground in the desert sands of Arizona. He had a deal with the world. He didn’t change it, and it didn’t change him. Seemed simple enough.

His world lost, monsters running rampant, and people dying everywhere he looks, it’s time to rise up from his dark past and become something he was never capable of being. It is time for him to be a hero. It is time for him to become the Windowpuncher!

59900 morties, 4.7 stars

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Featured Fantasy: Truth in the Smoke (Glamour Blind Trilogy Book 1) by SP Neeson

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Featured Fantasy: Truth in the Smoke (Glamour Blind Trilogy Book 1) by SP Neeson

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But you’re fae. I could feel the magic when I walked in the door.

When a famous actress, says this to me, I’m torn between thinking she’s insane and asking her for more details. But she leaves before I can do either and when I try to find her the next day, she’s dead and I’m left with more questions than before.

Why did she come to me? Why was she killed? Who did it? And was she crazy or did she know something I don’t?

I need answers and she’s not around to offer them anymore. My options are limited. I can forget it ever happened and move on with my life or I can break into her house, and the scene of her murder, to investigate.

What can I say? I’m really good at bad ideas.

Featured Fantasy: Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore

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Featured Fantasy: Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore

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Editor’s note: I haven’t read this one … completely. I started reading it just last night, because I loved the first book, over 10 years ago. I was able to fall back into the world. In fact, I don’t think you need to read the first one at all.

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can’t be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.

Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone—or something—is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He’s trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet” waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host.

To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; retired policeman turned bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth girl. Now if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind . . .