Pros: A complex murder mystery involving a remarkable web of personalities
Cons: Not really the “suspense” the book cover would have us believe; most of these characters are seriously non-likable
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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Kat, Perri, and Josie have been inseparable friends since third grade. They had their own place largely outside the school’s clique-based structure. Everyone loved Kat for her beauty and kindness. Josie is an athletic cheerleader. And Perri’s the sharp-witted theater geek. They live in a well-to-do suburb and their families can afford good schools, special athletics programs, and more. But as the end of their senior year draws close, one of them brings a gun to school. One girl ends up dead. One gets shot in the foot. And one is in critical condition after apparently blowing half of her face off. Only the three of them knew what really happened in the school bathroom that morning, only one girl is capable of saying, and she’s sticking to a story that doesn’t quite hold water. Now everyone’s looking for answers: the police, who can’t let go of the pieces that don’t add up; the father of the dead girl, who wants someone to blame; and the parents of the girl who’s still in critical condition, because they want some proof, any proof, that it might not have been her terrible act that caused all of this tragedy.
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, 15 authors explore the notion of what it might be like when it actually happens. When R’lyeh rises, when Cthulhu walks the earth, when the shoggoth hunt and kill. When humans find themselves to be mere insects—or less—beneath the notice of their new dark gods.
is an anthology of 12 stories about the Seelie and Unseelie courts of faeries edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis. The down side of a many-author anthology is you aren’t likely to enjoy all the stories because there’s such a range of styles. The up side is that you can discover new authors you might enjoy. Some anthologies manage to include more “wow” stories than others; Courts of the Fey is better than, say, 
is a collection of 15 short stories about the possibilities of extra-terrestrial life within our universe, edited by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern.
is a collection of four novellas set in her unusual and fantastic Guild Hunter universe, in which the world has been ruled since time immemorial by inhuman, lethal angels and archangels, served by vampires and humans alike.
