New Books: 14 January 2025

 

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Shea, Brian & Byrnes, Raquel: Aurora Fragment (Severn River 9781648756221, $18.99, 312pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, 01/14/2025)

Science fiction murder mystery novel. Detective Morgan Reed is drawn to an isolated Alaskan town, haunted by the intrusive memories of a killer. He teams up with the local detective to find a missing intern, ...Read More

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A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall: Review by Colleen Mondor

A Letter to the Luminous Deep, Sylvie Cathrall (Orbit 978-0-316-56553-0, $18.99, 352pp, tp) April 2024. Cover by Raxenne Maniquiz.

Sylvie Cathrall starts off her Sunken Archives series with the charming epistolary novel A Letter to the Luminous Deep. Set on a watery planet long after a catastrophic event that dramatically impacted the landscape, Luminous Deep is a ro­mance and mystery spiced with some eye-rolling family moments that gently ...Read More

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The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton: Review by Colleen Mondor

The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love, India Holton (Berkley 978-0-593-54728-1, $19.00, tp, 384pp) July 2024.

Romantasy is a subgenre getting considerable attention and India Holton enters the field with a new series, that is a lot of fun. The first book, The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love, introduces two academics, Beth Pickering and Devon Lock­ley, who specialize in the study and, if necessary, capture of thaumaturgic birds. These ...Read More

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