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  • Beth Revis

    author of the Chaotic Orbits trilogy and co-author of Night of the Witch About Chaotic Orbits book 1: Full Speed to a Crash Landing A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s…

  • Jacquelyn Benson

    author of Raiders of the Arcana series About Empire of Shadows, book 1 One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions. When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s…

  • Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

    Released November 2018 I was pretty sure this book was going to be “okay”. Maybe even “alright”. I was wrong. This book is hilarious, sweet, intelligent, and made me want to read everything T. Kingfisher has written. The story starts off with Halla being mistreated by her dead husband’s family, but then quickly veers away…

  • Foundations: Tower of Somnus Book 1 by Cale Plamann

    Released July 6th, 2022 Originally released on Royal Road, Foundations follows Kat Debs a young woman sick of being controlled by the corporation (a state-like entity that controls the lives of their “employees”) she was born into. Kat is a young woman who graduates high school and gets placed in her legit job as a…

  • Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik

    Released July 12th, 2022 Eclipse the Moon is the second book in Starlight’s Shadow trilogy. This one follows Kee, a young bubbly woman who lived through a galactic war and came out still able (if not determined) to see the good in people. Eclipse the Moon picks up right where the first one left off,…

  • Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

    Released September 2019 This book scratches all of my sci-fi itches. It has a cool spaceship (the La Sirena Negra) that the crew has made into a home; strange aliens; real-world (and sci-fi situational) problems that I, as a reader, can relate to; and an ancient alien civilization that no one knows anything about. There…

  • Dungeon Core Online by Jonathan Smidt

    Released August 2021 Some things just never get old. Playing video games. Petting dogs. Monty Python jokes. This book has two out of those three and captures them well. I have only read (listened to the audiobook) of this first one in the series, but I loved it! I was unsure about this book when…

  • The Darkness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer

    Released June 2021 This book was gripping! I sat down Sunday night at 8 pm, thinking I would read a couple chapters. At 2 am I stumbled out of my office, bleary eyed and thrilled, after reading the whole book. Also, I had been so stoked to find a LGBTQ+ book at Target! Target! I…

  • The Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence

    Released April 26th, 2022 Book 3 of The Book of the Ice Trilogy **Spoiler alert for the previous two books.** I first read The Book of the Ancestor trilogy by Mark Lawrence, and could not get enough of him! I then bought all three Impossible Time books and found out that my boyfriend had his…

  • The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

    Released March 15, 2022 The Cartographers is a book about finding out what is important. Nell Young was a respected member of the Cartography world when her father fired her from the New York Public Library’s map division. Seven years later he dies under suspicious circumstances, and Nell finds a map (the very map she…