Book Review: Of Noble Family
/Mary Robinette Kowal's sparkling "Glamourist" fantasy series comes to a complex and intriguing conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: The Dream Lover
/The passionate, unconventional life of novelist George Sand forms the backdrop for Elizabeth Berg's new novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering
/In the dystopian future of Jeffrey Rotter's fantastic novel, Copernican astronomy has been forgotten - but its secrets lie buried under what was once Florida
Read MoreBook Review: Lurid & Cute
/The main character of Adam Thirlwell's new novel has no redeeming qualities whatsoever - and he's sinfully easy to read about
Read MoreBook Review: We All Looked Up
/The high school students in Tommy Wallach's fantastic debut face more than graduation and an uncertain job market: they face an honest-to-gosh killer asteroid
Read MoreBook Review: The Architect's Apprentice
/A young boy and his gorgeous white elephant become apprenticed to the greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire in this stunning new novel by the author of "The Bastard of Istanbul"
Read MoreBook Review: Duplicity
/In N. K. Traver's exciting debut, a young cyber-hacker finds his life steadily being commandeered - but his own reflection in the mirror.
Read MoreBook Review: The Fifth Heart
/In Dan Simmons' latest fantastic novel, Henry James finds himself teamed up with fiction's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in order to solve a very real - and very heartbreaking - mystery.
Read MoreBook Review: The Red Queen
/In a dystopian future, a plucky young woman from a poor village suddenly finds herself at the heart of the corrupt power system and the focal point of a rebellion in "The Hunger Ga-" um, in Victoria Aveyard's "The Red Queen."
Read MoreBook Review: The Tapestry
/Joanna Stafford - niece of an executed man and distant cousin to King Henry VIII - is called to court, where she immediately becomes the focal point of deadly intrigues
Read MoreBook Review: John the Pupil
/Three impressionable young 13th-century Franciscans embark on an improbably odyssey to bring a momentous manuscript to the Pope
Read MoreBook Review: The Violent Century
/In a world very much like our own, super-powered clandestine operatives vie with each other on missions to save or destroy humanity
Read MoreBook Review: Barbarian Spring
/A businessman is on a trip to new-money Tunisia when the world's economy goes into meltdown...
Read MoreBook Review: The Girl on the Train
/In this New York Times bestseller, a hapless woman spots a mysterious event from the window of her commuter train and is soon caught up in a police investigation.
Read MoreBook Review: Hereward - The End of Days
/Driven into hiding by the victorious forces of William the Conqueror, the heroic Hereward the Wake and his band of freedom fighters must struggle to survive
Read MoreBook Review: The Accidental Empress
/A strong-willed Bavarian princess captures the eye of the young Austro-Hungarian emperor in Allison Pataki's opulent new historical novel. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Kings and Emperors
/In Dewey Lambdin's latest rousing Alan Lewrie adventure, our dashing hero sees action off the coast of a Spain imperiled by Napoleon
Read MoreBook Review: A Darker Shade of Magic
/In V. E. Schwab's new fantasy novel, a young man can travel between a string of alternate-reality Londons
Read MoreBook Review: Making Nice
/In Matt Sumell's debut, his main character manages to alienate every other person in the book, often by punching them.
Read MoreBook Review: Amherst
/When a 21st-century woman travels to the hometown of Emily Dickinson, she finds herself caught between a passionate present and a past far more human than she imagined
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