Books tagged with: american southwest
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![Area 51Annie Jacobsen]()
Science FictionArea 51 - also known as Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake and Homey Airport - is one of the worst kept secrets in the world, a top secret government facility located within the Nevada Test & Training Area that even now, the US government refuses to admit existence of....
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![BlopeSean Benham]()
Science FictionBlope is about segregation, plastic surgery gone wrong, and all sorts of messed up religion. For a little background, it is basically another version of history where the American Southwest becomes part of an extreme Taiwanese empire. Its ruler uses the American Southwest as an experiment & segregat...
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![The Forge of GodGreg Bear]()
Science FictionThe Forge of God is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear. First Europe (as in the sixth moon of Jupiter) disappears, then a strange cinder cone/spaceship including a sick and dying alien is found in Death Valley and a giant new mountain/spaceship including robots is found in the desert of Australia....
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![Demon RoadDerek Landy]()
FantasyI’m already a fan of Landy’s previous work, Demon Road shows some of the same great dialogue and riveting narrative that made his Skulduggery Pleasant series such a great read. But his latest offering is definitely darker in tone and content, with murderous demon parents, twisted witches, and even t...
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![ManrootAnne Steinberg]()
FantasyManroot opens in the spring of 1930 with Katherine Sheahan and her father, Jessie, looking for work in the tourist town of Castlewood, Missouri. Jesse gets a job as a handyman and Katherine as a hotel maid. While her father eventually embraces the drink and disappears, Katherine makes a living for h...
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![Supernatural: War of the SonsRebecca Dessertine]()
FantasySupernatural: War of the Sons is an original story based on the hit TV series Supernatural (naturally) featuring the brothers Sam and Dean. The novel has been written by Rebecca Dessertine and David Reed. Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force 27 years ago and in t...
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![The Dead of WinterLee Collins]()
HorrorThe Dead of Winter was a novel that caught me somewhat off guard, combining two genres I enjoy immensely, horror and the westerns, and successfully merging them together. Set in and around the town of Leadville, Colorado the story follows the tough, hard-drinking, gambling lead of the story, Cora Og...
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![The HungerAlma Katsu]()
HorrorThe hardback version of The Hunger was originally launched last year and it drew some critical acclaim from authors including Sarah Pinborough and Joanne Harris. Both the Observer and the Guardian loved it. Stephen King said of it: Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended readin...
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![HoundedKevin Hearne]()
FantasyHounded is the first book in Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles, a series of urban fantasy novels that follow the adventures of Atticus O'Sullivan, a 2,000-year-old druid living in modern-day Arizona. The story begins with Atticus, who has managed to keep his true identity and magical abilities hi...
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![HexedKevin Hearne]()
FantasyHexed is the second book in Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles, a series of urban fantasy novels featuring the adventures of Atticus O'Sullivan, a two-thousand-year-old druid who is trying to keep a low profile in modern-day Tempe, Arizona. The story picks up where the first book, Hounded , left o...
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![Oh God, the Sun GoesDavid Connor]()
General FictionGrowing up in Britain it can seem during certain times of the year that the sun has disappeared, but we all know it is still there, just behind many rain clouds in the few daylight hours of the winter. It would be a hugely different thing if the sun did disappear, for one, life on the planet would s...
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![The Get OffChrista Faust]()
General FictionA good life is a life well lived full of new adventures, meeting new people, and experiencing new things. On this criteria Angel Dare has had one of the best lives, she is always meeting new people and finding herself in new places, but not for the reasons she would want. From adult film star to vic...
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![The Country Under HeavenFrederic S Durbin]()
FantasyWho does not love a genre mash up? The industry certainly does as they ride that Romantasy train all the way to the bank. Although I do not mind a whimsical fantasy, I would not consider it my favourite genre. A mash up of genres needs a little more bite to interest me. How about Westerns with the O...
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