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Retribution Falls<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey\u2019s league. Fate has not been kind to the captain of the airship Ketty Jay\u2014or his motley crew. They are all running from something. Crake is a daemonist in hiding, traveling with an armored golem and burdened by guilt. Jez is the new navigator, desperate to keep her secret from the rest of the crew. Malvery is a disgraced doctor, drinking himself to death. So when an opportunity arises to steal a chest of gems from a vulnerable airship, Frey can\u2019t pass it up. It\u2019s an easy take\u2014and the payoff will finally make him a rich man.<\/p>\n But when the attack goes horribly wrong, Frey suddenly finds himself the most wanted man in Vardia, trailed by bounty hunters, the elite Century Knights, and the dread queen of the skies, Trinica Dracken. Frey realizes that they\u2019ve been set up to take a fall but doesn\u2019t know the endgame. And the ultimate answer for captain and crew may lie in the legendary hidden pirate town of Retribution Falls. That\u2019s if they can get there without getting blown out of the sky.<\/p>\n \n The Hidden Goddess<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n In a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies.<\/p>\n Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable. Newly engaged, she now must brave Dreadnought\u2019s family and the magical elite of the nation\u2019s wealthiest city. Not everyone is pleased with the impending nuptials, especially Emily\u2019s future mother-in-law, a sociopathic socialite. But there are greater challenges still: confining couture, sinister Russian scientists, and a deathless Aztec goddess who dreams of plunging the world into apocalypse. With all they must confront, do Emily and Dreadnought have any hope of a happily-ever-after?<\/p>\n \n City of Ruin<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n In the frozen north of a far-flung world lies Villiren, a city plagued by violent gangs and monstrous human\/animal hybrids, stalked by a serial killer, and targeted by an otherworldly army. Brynd Lathraea has brought his elite Night Guard to help Villiren build a fighting force against the invaders. But success will mean dealing with the half-vampyre leader of the savage Bloods gang. Meanwhile, reptilian rumel investigator Rumex Jeryd has come seeking refuge from Villjamur\u2019s vindictive emperor\u2014only to find a city riddled with intolerance between species, indifference to a murderer\u2019s reign of terror, and the powerful influence of criminals. As the enemy prepares to strike, and Villiren\u2019s defenders turn on each other, three refugees\u2014deposed empress Jamur Rika, her sister Eir, and the scholar Randur Estevu\u2014approach the city. And with them they bring a last, desperate hope for survival … and a shocking revelation that will change everything.<\/p>\n Books received 4\/18\/11 Ballantine Spectra edition<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding Cover by Stephan Martiniere Promo copy: Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey\u2019s league. Fate has not been kind to … Continue reading
\nby Chris Wooding
\nCover by Stephan Martiniere<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/514TfhqDZYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby M. K. Hobson
\nCover by David Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51E1mvmTwyL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Mark Charan Newton<\/span><\/p>\n