{"id":2829,"date":"2013-10-12T14:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2013-10-12T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:52:59","slug":"books-received-10122013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2013\/10\/12\/books-received-10122013\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 10\/12\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/513ahFV1t0L._SY344_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dance-Dragons-Song-Fire-Book\/dp\/0553582011\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381604051&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=9780553582017\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>A Dance with Dragons<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nA Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>by\u00a0George R.R. Martin<br \/>\nCover by Larry Rostant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Promo copy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of a colossal battle, Daenerys Targaryen rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way east\u2014with new allies who may not be the ragtag band they seem. And in the frozen north, Jon Snow confronts creatures from beyond the Wall of ice and stone, and powerful foes from within the Night\u2019s Watch. In a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics lead a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, to the greatest dance of all.<\/p>\n<p><b>Don\u2019t miss the thrilling sneak peek of George R. R. Martin\u2019s A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Six,\u00a0<i>The Winds of<\/i><\/b><strong><i> Winter<\/i><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51VhtNb6fuL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Osiris-Curse-Tweed-Nightingale-Adventure\/dp\/1616148578\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381604643&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=9781616148577\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Osiris Curse<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nA Tweed &amp; Nightingale Adventure<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>by Paul Crilley<br \/>\nCover by Cliff Nielsen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Promo copy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steampunk Sherlock Holmes meets\u00a0<i>The X-Files<\/i>\u00a0with a dash of romantic tension and a large dose of adventure.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen Nikola Tesla is murdered and blueprints for his super weapons are stolen, Tweed and Nightingale are drawn into a global cat and mouse chase with his killers. What&#8217;s more, it seems that the people who shot Nikola Tesla are the same people responsible for Octavia&#8217;s mother&#8217;s disappearance. As the two cases intertwine, Tweed and Nightingale&#8217;s investigations lead them to a murdered archeologist and a secret society called The Hermetic Order of Osiris. Fleeing the cult&#8217;s wrath, they go undercover on the luxury airship,\u00a0<i>The Albion<\/i>, setting out on her maiden voyage to Tutankhamen&#8217;s View, a five star hotel built in the hollowed-out and refurbished Great Pyramid of Giza.<\/p>\n<p>In Egypt, the duo begin to unravel the terrible truth behind Tesla&#8217;s death, a secret so earth-shattering that if revealed it would mean rewriting the entire history of the world. But if the cult&#8217;s plans aren&#8217;t stopped, Britain may lose the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/518hxatdpzL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Rising-Pierce-Brown\/dp\/0345539788\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381604387&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=9780345539786\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Red Rising<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>by Pierce Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Promo copy:<\/strong> <b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><b>Pierce Brown\u2019s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of\u00a0<i>The Hunger Games<\/i>\u00a0by Suzanne Collins and\u00a0<i>Ender\u2019s Game\u00a0<\/i>by Orson Scott Card.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI live for the dream that my children will be born free,\u201d she says. \u201cThat they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live for you,\u201d I say sadly.<\/p>\n<p>Eo kisses my cheek. \u201cThen you must live for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darrow is a miner and a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he digs all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of the planet livable for future generations. Darrow has never seen the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better future for his children.<\/p>\n<p>But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow and Reds like him are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow joins a resistance group in order to infiltrate the ruling class and destroy society from within. He will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41qavX8Bo%2BL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lost-Covenant-Widdershins-Ari-Marmell\/dp\/161614811X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381604896&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=9781616148119\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Lost Covenant <\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nA Widdershins Adventure<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>by Ari Marmell<br \/>\nCover by Jason Chan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Promo copy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>This third YA novel starring the young thief Widdershins combines the angst and vulnerability of any teenage girl with the high action of the best fantasy adventures.<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been six months since Widdershins and her own &#8220;personal god&#8221; Olgun fled the city of Davillon. During their travels, Widdershins unwittingly discovers that a noble house is preparing to move against the last surviving bastion of the Delacroix family. Determined to help the distant relatives of her deceased adopted father, Alexandre Delacroix, she travels to a small town at the edge of the nation. There, she works at unraveling a plot involving this rival house and a local criminal organization, all while under intense suspicion from the very people she&#8217;s trying to rescue. Along the way she&#8217;ll have to deal with a traitor inside the Delacroix family, a mad alchemist, and an infatuated young nobleman who won&#8217;t take no for an answer.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"title\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. A Dance with Dragons A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five by\u00a0George R.R. 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