Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy #1) In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma. Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out Read more…
The Dead Zone – Stephen King The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask… Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, Read more…
Childhoods End – Arthur C. Clarke The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city–intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify Earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, Read more…
Warbreaker (Warbreaker #1) – Brandon Sanderson Warbreaker is the story of two sisters who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years Read more…
Vicarious – Rhett C. Bruno The real world is only where you breathe… In High Earth, entertainment is everything. Virtual Worlds. Games. Steaming shows. Simulations—there’s something for everybody. You don’t ever even have to leave your home. For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis: Live, a reality show that pushes Read more…
The Institute – Stephen King In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a Read more…
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law #2) – Joe Abercrombie Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a Read more…
The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) – Joe Abercrombie Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy Read more…
Dune (Dune #1) – Frank Herbert I FINALLY DID IT!!! After TWENTY years of wanting to read it but being overwhelmed by the sheer reputation and scope, I have FINALLY READ DUNE!!!! In a nutshell, Dune it is about a young man named Paul Atradies. Paul’s father is a Duke and his mother Read more…
Pushing Ice – Alastair Reynolds 2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it Read more…