Book Genre: Fantasy

So, Aliera is now Defender of the Seelie Court, whatever that means. Stuck with pretty boy/troll Avery as her annoying lackey, Aliera has no idea what she’s supposed to do and Avery isn’t helping (and could he please just shut up already!). When her best friend (and cousin) Caroline disappears,...

This is a clever Irish folk tale about a man named Tim O'Toole and the antics that occur as he attempts to support his family.  As he is looking for work, he stumbles across some of the 'wee folk.'  Since he discovers them in the light, he is allowed to command their treasure from them...

Graham Joyce returns with an unsettling novel about a teenager who shows up on her parents’ doorstep twenty years after she disappeared without a trace. Tara Martin claims she was abducted to an enchanted fairyland and, eerily, appears no older than when she vanished. For her, she insists, only...

Liza goes to bed one night and wakes up to find that her brother Patrick is missing. Well, at least she THINKS he's missing: he's being a lot nicer than usual and Liza is pretty certain The Spindlers have stolen his soul and taken him away. To rescue her brother Liza must travel to a land...

It is no surprise that Seraphina is among the 2013 Morris Award Finalists. This tale centers on Seraphina, a teenaged girl with a dark secret, who finds herself in the middle of a fragile...

Tess has always run into the forbidden Dragonswood to escape her father's anger, but when she is spotted one day, she is accused of being a witch. After being rescued from her witch trial by a dragon, Tess must hide-out in Dragonswood, where she begins to hear the fairies calling her name. Magic...

While this is not as good as Ender's Game it is certainly a fun read. I really enjoyed the way that Card builds the world in which the action plays out, both here on Earth and in Westil. This is the first in a new series by Card and I can't wait to read more. There is a novella called...

James Stark's life is hell, well ok, James Stark's life is IN Hell, that is until he wakes up in an LA alley on Christmas day, which is a sort of hell all of its own... Stark (aka Sandman Slim) sets out to mete out justice on the people who sent him to hell in the first place, his friends....

This is the first in a series, while it is not the best it is worth a read before taking on the rest of the Ilona Andrews books as it will establish the world for you. This is a world post-catastrophe, we won't call it an apocalypse because life as we know it is basically going on, but some...

Joanne Walker has been hiding her whole life, her Irish and Cherokee background is not something she likes to talk about so much so that she goes by a name that is not her own. She is a cop who works in the motorpool (she's a mechanic) and she likes it that way but sometimes you can't always get...

You are what you eat takes on a whole new meaning in CHEW, Tony Chu (hahah) is a cibopath, that means that he experiences the life of everything he eats... so pretty much eating anything sucks, except for canned beets they apparently don't register much. This graphic novel series follows the...

Imagine an illustrated book for grown ups, now stop imagining because you are holding it! Walter Moers, a German author and illustrator, has three of his great books translated into English. City of Dreaming Books is the most recent.  This tale follows the misadventures of Optimus...