I recently bought an IPad (Generation 1) and figured I would try to do all my writing from it, while also using it to read various media and write reviews as well. I also thought to do the unthinkable and...

The Snow Queen’s Shadow is the latest offering in Jim C. Hines’ series of retold fairy tales.  There are three other novels in the series, bringing the series to a nice, even quartet. In this volume, Snow...

Shadowfever or Prospero Regained. Moning or Lamplighter. Bestselling, high-seeded, well-known series or scrappy underdog dark horse competitor. These were the questions BSC readers faced as they voted to determine the best book of 2011 in the opinion...

Today being April 10, the polls for our 6th Annual Book Tournament have closed. If I were a politician I’d be reveling in the controversy and uproar surrounding the final round in our tournament. Since I am instead the main face...

Publisher’s Description: As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. Her boss and mentor, Gerald...

A Discovery of Witches, 11 seed out of the Middle Earth Bracket, has claimed the third place in our tournament to be proclaimed the best book of 2011, coming out on top of Ilona Andrews’ 3-seeded Magic...

Legion of the Damned is the latest addition to the ever popular and ever growing Space Marine Battles series. Author Rob Sanders has proven himself to be a descriptive writer without equal whose words stretch the boundaries...

The Shape of Desire is not your average urban fantasy. To me it read old school, more reminiscent of, say, the Mercedes Lackey Diana Tregarde books than what we now think of as “low fantasy.” Shape hearkens back to...

I think that nearly everyone who loves books has at least a couple of volumes in their personal library that bear the marks of the bibliophile’s devotion.  These are the books that have spines that have gone...

After five long rounds, we’re finally down to the end. Our field of 64 champions has been whittled down to two contenders who remain in the running for the best book of 2011 as determined by BooksSpot...

I am an unabashed fan of David Moody’s Hater series, which began with the brilliant novel Hater and continued with Dog Blood and Them Or Us, which I will review here in the near future. I’ve also...