New releases for the week of June 2nd

Spotlight:

(Amazon.co.uk, Book Depository)

Synopsis:

An ice age strikes a chain of islands, and thousands come to seek sanctuary at the gates of Villjamur: a city of ancient spires and bridges, a place where banshees wail the deceased, cultists use forgotten technology for their own gain and where, further out, the dead have been seen walking across the tundra. When the Emperor commits suicide, his elder daughter, Rika, is brought home to lead the Jamur Empire, but the sinister Chancellor plans to get rid of her and claim the throne for himself. Meanwhile a senior investigator in the city inquisition must solve the high-profile and savage murder of a city politician, whilst battling evils within his own life, and a handsome and serial womanizer manipulates his way into the imperial residence with a hidden agenda. When reports are received that tens of thousands of citizens are dying in a bizarre genocide on the northern islands of the Empire, members of the elite Night Guard are sent to investigate. It seems that, in this land under a red sun, the long winter is bringing more than just snow.

Hardcover:

> The Infinity Gate, Sara Douglass

(B&N)

> Faery Moon, P.R. Frost

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Spy Who Haunted Me, Simon R. Green

(Amazon, B&N)

> Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Story Sisters, Alice Hoffman

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Enchantment Emporium, Tanya Huff

(Amazon, B&N)

> House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds

(Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:

> Ink and Steel, Elizabeth Bear

(Amazon, B&N)

> Eve of Destruction, S.J. Day

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Immortal Prince, Jennifer Fallon

(Amazon, B&N)

> Demon Mistress, Yasmine Galenorn

(Amazon, B&N)

> Daemons Are Forever, Simon R. Green

(Amazon, B&N)

> Valor’s Trial, Tanya Huff

(Amazon, B&N)

> Juggler of Worlds, Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner

(Amazon, B&N)

> Swordplay, Denise Little (Anthology)

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Dark Ferryman, Jenna Rhodes

(Amazon, B&N)

> Greywalker, Kat Richardson

(Amazon, B&N)

> Genesis, Ken Shuffeldt

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Edge of Reason, Melinda Snodgrass

(Amazon, B&N)

> Scarlet, Jordan Summers

(Amazon, B&N)

> By Schism Rent Asunder, David Weber

(Amazon, B&N)

> Null-A Continuum, Jon C. Wright

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Ships of Merior, Janny Wurts

(Amazon, B&N)

NYT bestsellers for May 29th

Hardcover:
Charlaine Harris’ Dead and Gone slips a single point to number 4 in its third week. (Amazon, B&N)

Stephanie Meyer’s The Host maintains its previous position at number 7 two weeks after a full year on the list. (Amazon, B&N)

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun finishes its third week down nine to number 28. (Amazon, B&N)

Jim Butcher’s Turn Coat hangs on at the very bottom of the list after falling thirteen positions and a respectable seven weeks on the list. (Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:
Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is steady at number 4 for the second week in a row and eight weeks overall. (Amazon, B&N)

Dean Koontz’s Odd Hours is down four points to number 8 at the end of its fourth week. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ From Dead to Worse climbs a single rank in its seventh week to number 10. (Amazon, B&N)

David Benioff’s City of Thieves falls five spots in week eight to number 11. (Amazon, B&N)

Alan Dean Foster’s Star Trek stumbles seven steps to number 22 in its second week. (Amazon, B&N)

Karen Traviss’ Star Wars: Order 66 makes its debut on the paperback list at number 31. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series books 1-3, & 5 are at places 7, 11, 24, and 35 respectively.

Review: Twelve

Twelve
by Jasper Kent


Format: Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Bantam
Cover Design: Paul Young
Release Date: January 1, 2009
ISBN-10: 0- 593060644
ISBN-13: 978-0593060643


Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov is a Russian soldier in the year 1812. Most of Europe is under the French boot and now Napoleon has invaded Russia. The Tsar has ordered the Russian army to fall back rather than meet Napoleon in a decisive battle. Aleksei’s squad, which functions as scouts and spies by seeking intelligence and often working behind the lines, decides to hire a group of twelve foreign mercenaries to help slow the French advance.

However, the mercenaries, dubbed the Oprichniki by Aleksei’s squad, are not normal men. This is quite clear from the very beginning as they kill with a brutal, ruthless, and scary efficiency. In fact, they are voordalak – the ancient Russian word for vampire. When Aleksei discovers the Oprichniki’s true nature, the battle shifts from fighting the French to eradicating an ancient nightmare now fighting in their midst.

One cool thing about the book is that the vampires are pretty realistic. They have advantages over humans, but they have weaknesses to even the balance. Another thing is that the vampires don’t actively seek to increase their numbers. Instead, they rely on those that approach them and share a willingness to give up their humanity. Hence, vampirism is as much a state of mind as a disease or even existence as a separate species.

Twelve certainly sounds like an interesting book and it’s the main reason I bought it. Unfortunately, I had a few problems with it. My main complaint is that the book did not feel like a historical novel. Other than political details, there is nothing that made me feel like I was in 19th Century Russia fighting Napoleon. Frankly, the tale could be have been set during Caesar’s conquest of Gaul or the Boxer Rebellion in China for all the importance of the setting. Truly, the book is not about the Napoleonic Wars at all but rather against the vampires and I think the story suffers for it. To put it another way: if the setting is secondary, why have a vampire story in this time period at all?

Part of the problem with this may be Kent’s prose style. The novel is written in first person narrative yet I had quite a bit of difficulty believing in Aleksei’s motivations and actions. For instance, as an officer, Aleksei has a wife and son in St. Petersburg. He also has a mistress in Moscow, yet his love for her is never convincing. Neither did I believe his “instinctive” hatred for the vampires when all his knowledge of them is from fairy tales told by his grandmother. Aleksei even goes so far as to turn against his fellow comrades. Characterization on the whole was better for the supporting cast then it ever was for the voice of the narrative. The last third of the book, exclusively about Aleksei against the vampires, was nearly a slog to read.

Twelve has a very interesting premise, unfortunately I felt the author didn’t quite pull it off. Perhaps I was expecting too much from a book with a historical setting, or maybe I was not in the right frame of mind when I read it. In any case, the book might still appeal to other readers of vampire/horror or historical fiction.

Rating: 6.5/10

Review: The Warded Man

The Warded Man
by Peter V. Brett


Format: Hardback, 416 pages
Publisher: Del Ray
Cover Design: Albert Stark, Lauren K. Cannon
Release Date: March 10, 2009
ISBN-10: 0-345503805
ISBN-13: 978-0345503800


For as long as anyone can remember, night has been the dominion of the corelings - demons that rise like steam from the core of the earth to take on terrible forms. For hundreds of years, the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards. Ages ago, mankind battled the corelings are equal ground, but the fighting wards have long been lost and fear is the only thing most people know.

However, three survivors are determined to change their world. Rojer was crippled by the demons that killed his parents and seeks solace in music only to find that music can also be a weapon. Leesha, harmed by both men and demons, becomes a master healer and a gatherer of knowledge. Arlen, the main focus of the narrative, will pay any price to battle the corelings. His path will lead him beyond the boundary of what it means to be human.

The Warded Man was published as The Painted Man in the United Kingdom late last year, yet the American title seems more appropriate as it is the term used in the book. The book is really a pretty standard fantasy with dark forces that prey on humankind and a farm boy who will rise to greatness. Indeed, Arlen is a bit of a “Mary Sue”, doing and thinking of things that apparently nobody else ever has before. Another problem was that the initial family dynamics for each of the characters seemed a little contrived to produce the characters that would be necessary later on.

Luckily, the novel’s early problems are lessened and resolved a bit as the plot advances. I admire the fact that the author cut across months and even years to keep the plot and pace going steadily. He also did a good job making me care about the characters. Although the three main characters aren’t especially complex, they do evolve a fair deal with Arlen experiencing the most development. Overall, the book was a good, fun read and I liked the world that Peter Brett created.

The Warded Man is a standard fantasy story yet it’s also an entertaining one and I look forward to the next book. Recommended.

Rating: 7.5/10

New releases for the week of May 26th

Spotlight:

(Amazon, B&N)

Synopsis:

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.

Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives.

What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.

Hardcover:

> Black Powder War, Naomi Novik

(Amazon, B&N, Subterranean)

> Hylozoic, Rudy Rucker

(Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:

> Slan Hunter, Kevin J. Anderson, A.E. Van Vogt

(Amazon, B&N)

> Killing with the Edge of the Moon, A. Attanasio

(Amazon, B&N)

> Xenopath, Eric Brown

(Amazon, B&N)

> Orphan’s Triumph, Robert Buettner

(Amazon, B&N)

> Santa Olivia, Jacqueline Carey

(Amazon, B&N)

> World’s End, Mark Chadbourn

(Amazon, B&N)

> Semper Human, Ian Douglas

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Little Book, Selden Edwards

(Amazon, B&N)

> Incandescence, Greg Egan

(Amazon, B&N)

> Witch Way to the Mall, Esther Friesner

(Amazon, B&N)

> Blood Noir, Laurell K. Hamilton

(Amazon, B&N)

> Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris (Reprint)

(Amazon, B&N)

> Year’s Best SF 14, David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer (Anthology)

(Amazon, B&N)

> Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2008, Rich Horton (Anthology)

(Amazon, B&N)

> Divisions, Ken MacLeod

(Amazon, B&N)

> Warhammer 40,000: The Killing Ground, Graham McNeill

(Amazon, B&N)

> Star Flight, Andre Norton

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Human Disguise, James O’Neal

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Prefect, Alastair Reynolds

(Amazon, B&N)

> Endless Blue, Wen Spencer

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson

(Amazon, B&N)

NYT bestsellers for May 22nd

Hardcover:
Charlaine Harris’ Dead and Gone slips two spots to number 3 in its second week on the list. (Amazon, B&N)

Stephanie Meyer’s The Host finishes its 53rd week on the list up a point to number 7. (Amazon, B&N)

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun falls nine ranks in its second week to number 19. (Amazon, B&N)

Jim Butcher’s Turn Coat rounds out week six down two to number 22. (Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:
Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ends its seventh week maintaining its position at number 4. (Amazon, B&N)

Dean Koontz’s Odd Hours is also steady at number four on the mass market list in its third week. (Amazon, B&N)

David Benioff’s City of Thieves is down one spot to number 6 in week seven. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ From Dead to Worse keeps its previous position at number 11 in week six. (Amazon, B&N)

Alan Dean Foster’s Star Trek makes its debut on the paperback list at number 15. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ Dead Until Dark is at number 13 and Living Dead in Dallas is at number 20.

Review: Tides from the New Worlds

Tides from the New Worlds
by Tobias Buckell


Format: Hardcover, 293 pages
Publisher: Wyrm
Cover Design: Brian Dow
Release Date: April 2009
ISBN-10: 1-890464074
ISBN-13: 978-1890464073

Tides from the New Worlds is a collection of Tobias Buckell’s short stories. Tobias Buckell burst onto the scene almost three years ago with the publication of his novel Crystal Rain. The science fiction novel, set on a future world and populated with descendents of Aztec and Afro-Caribbean cultures, marked a new and unique flavor in science fiction. Buckell’s next two books Ragamuffin and Sly Mongoose have established him as a fresh new voice in space opera and speculative fiction as a whole.

There are twenty-one short stories in Tides from the New Worlds. Most have been published in various venues such as anthologies and magazines except for “Something in the Rock”, which was written exclusively for this limited edition. The stories range from pure science fiction to fantasy to historical fiction, and to somewhere in between. A few take place in a universe already familiar to fans of Buckell. Others are separate, yet the discerning reader can glimpse echoes of ideas present in his novels. One of Buckell’s strengths as a writer is his characters and all of the stories in this collection reflect that.

I am not providing summaries on all of the stories. Instead I will limit myself to the ones I enjoyed the most. All of the stories are good and these three are my favorite.

The absolutely gorgeous cover of this collection features a scene from the story “Tides”. Siana is a young girl who lives in a stilt-village far out into the ocean and one day she returns from looking for shells to discover that her sister has returned home from the Coastal Wars. At first, Siana is resentful of her siblings return, but magic soon forms a bond between them before a tragic event changes her life forever.

“Something in the Rock” is a tale about a dwarf who leads a mission to rescue a group of trapped miners except that they find far more than they bargain for deep down in the earth. Something of a horror story, the story explores what happens when you face a terrible threat yet are unable to trust your own senses.

In “Necahual”, a young soldier from the League lands on the planet New Anegada to save it from the threat of alien invasion. However, nothing is quite what it seems. The natives don’t necessarily want his help and there’s a slight problem with the Aztecs.

Tides from the New Worlds is a must-read for all fans of Tobias Buckell. Strongly recommended.

Rating: 8.5/10

New releases for the week of May 19th

Hardcover:
> Flinx Transcendent, Alan Dean Foster
(Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:
> Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Alan Dean Foster
(Amazon, B&N)

> Victory of Eagles, Naomi Novik
(Amazon, B&N)

> Star Wars: Order 66, Karen Traviss
(Amazon, B&N)

NYT bestsellers for May 15th

Hardcover:
Charlaine Harris’ Dead and Gone makes its debut on the bestseller list at number 1. (Amazon, B&N)

Stephanie Meyer’s The Host finishes its 52nd week on the list at number 8 with no change from last week. (Amazon, B&N)

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun also makes its debut on the list at number 10. (Amazon, B&N)

Jim Butcher’s Turn Coat falls three ranks in its fifth week to number 20. (Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:
Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is up one position to number 4 in its sixth week. (Amazon, B&N)

Dean Koontz’s Odd Hours finishes its second week at number 4, up two. (Amazon, B&N)

David Benioff’s City of Thieves slips two spots to number 5 in its sixth week on the list. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ From Dead to Worse, after dropping nineteen points last week, is back up thirteen spots to number 11 in its fifth week. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ Dead Until Dark is at number 20 and Living Dead in Dallas is at number 30.

Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet: Relentless tumbles eighteen points to number 34 in its second week. (Amazon, B&N)

Review: Devil's Cape

Devil's Cape
by Rob Rogers


Format: Paperback, 409 pages
Publisher: Discoveries
Cover Design: Chris McGrath
Release Date: April 1, 2008
ISBN-10: 0-786949015
ISBN-13: 978-0786949014


"A city where corruption and heroism walk hand-in-hand, and justice and mercy are bought and paid for in blood, Devil’s Cape has never been kind to its heroes. But when a new band of vigilantes rises from the ashes of one of the city’s most horrific murders, they set in motion a course of events that will change the city forever – but not necessarily for the better."

The book begins in flashback, giving the background of the major characters as well as several minor characters in the novel. The story then catches up to the present day as a team of superheroes arrives to avenge the death of a teammate twenty years earlier, however a gang of super-powered criminals guns them down in cold blood. Their deaths galvanize others into action intent on bringing down the former circus freaks. And watching and manipulating everything from the shadows, is the mysterious Robber Baron.

The city of Devil’s Cape is itself practically it’s own character; built in the swamps of Louisiana not far from New Orleans, by an honest-to-God pirate by the name of St. Diable. The extremely detailed background really brings the city to life and makes it feel as if it really exists. As a haven for criminals and corruption, I can’t help but be reminded of DC Comics Gotham City, likely the inspiration for the author’s city. The existence of superheroes is another similarity to the comic book universe with characters’ powers and costumes much like those of popular superheroes. Though perhaps I should say super-powered people instead, as not everyone with superpowers in Devil’s Cape would be considered a hero.

As can be guessed from the book’s plot, the setting is quite dark and gritty so it’s not surprising that the characters are as dirty as the city in which they live. Everyone is, to some degree, tainted or touched by the city’s influence. Characters fall on both sides of the line between good and evil and sometimes cross it several times in the novel. And everyone has their own reason and motivations for what they do. As for the Robber Baron, well, you’ll just have to read the book. If anything, I thought the characters could have been a little grayer than they were actually portrayed, but it’s only the author’s first novel.

Devil’s Cape is an impressive debut novel. There is more than enough material for more books sequels and hopefully Rob Rogers will write more in this setting and in others as well. Strongly recommended.

Rating: 8.5/10

New releases for the week of May 12th

Spotlight:

(Amazon, B&N)

Synopsis:

When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet--only to be abandoned when the BAC discovered it couldn't turn a profit on Mars.

This is the story of Mary Griffith, a determined woman with three daughters, who opened the only place to buy a beer on the Tharsis Bulge. It's the story of Manco Inca, whose attempt to terraform Mars brought a new goddess vividly to life; of Stanford Crosley, con man extraordinaire; of Ottorino Vespucci, space cowboy and romantic hero; of the Clan Morrigan, of the denizens of the Martian Motel, and of the machinations of another Company entirely, all of whom contribute to the downfall of the BAC and the founding of a new world. But Mary and her struggles and triumphs is at the center of it all, in her bar, the Empress of Mars.

Hardcover:

> A Grey Moon Over China, Thomas A. Day

(Amazon, B&N)

> Night of Knives, Ian C. Esselmont

(Amazon, B&N)

> Monster, A. Lee Martinez

(Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:

> Tigerheart, Peter David

(Amazon, B&N)

> Dark Integers and Other Stories, Greg Egan

(Amazon, B&N)

> Star Trek, Alan Dean Foster

(Amazon, B&N)

> The Best of Michael Moorcock, Michael Moorcock

(Amazon, B&N)

> From the Earth to the Moon, Edward Roth, Jules Verne

(Amazon, B&N)

NYT bestsellers for May 8th

Hardcover:
Stephanie Meyer’s The Host is down two spots to number 8 at the end of its 51st week. (Amazon, B&N)

Jim Butcher’s Turn Coat slumps seven points in its fourth week to number 17. (Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:
David Benioff’s City of Thieves maintains its position at number 3 for the third week in a row and its fifth week overall. (Amazon, B&N)

Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies climbs back up another five ranks in its fifth week to number 5. (Amazon, B&N)

Dean Koontz’s Odd Hours makes its debut on the paperback bestseller list at number 6. (Amazon, B&N)

Likewise, Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet: Relentless also makes its debut this week at number 16. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ From Dead to Worse falls a whopping nineteen positions to number 24 at the end of week five. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ Dead Until Dark is at number 24.

New releases for the week of May 5th

Spotlight:

(Amazon, B&N)

Synopsis:

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.

Hardcover:

> Diamond Star, Catherine Asaro

(Amazon, B&N)

> Shadow Valley, Steven Barnes

(Amazon, B&N)

> Flood, Stephen Baxter

(Amazon, B&N)

> In the Stormy Red Sky, David Drake

(Amazon, B&N)

> Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris

(Amazon, B&N)

> Starfinder, John Marco

(Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:

> The Shadow Isle, Katharine Kerr

(Amazon, B&N)

> Fires of Freedom, Jerry Pournelle

(Amazon, B&N)

> Coraline: The Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell

(Amazon, B&N)

> Fall of Thanes, Brian, Ruckley

(Amazon, B&N)

> Terra Insegura, Edward Willett

(Amazon, B&N)

Review: Avempartha

Avempartha

by Michael J. Sullivan

Format: Paperback, 331 pages
Publisher: Ridan
Cover Design: Michael J. Sullivan
Release Date: March 22, 2009

ISBN-13: 978-0979621116



When a destitute young woman hires two thieves to help save her remote village from nocturnal attacks, they are drawn into the schemes of the wizard Esrahaddon. While Royce struggles to breech the secrets of an ancient elven tower, Hadrian attempts to rally the villagers to defend themselves against the unseen killer. What begins with the simple theft of a sword places the two thieves at the center of a firestorm — that could change the future of Elan.

Avempartha is the second book in the Riyria Revelations and picks up about two years after The Crown Conspiracy left off. Royce and Hadrian are off to the eastern wilderness to help the village of Dhalgren to fight off attacks by a mysterious monster. They quickly run into the wizard Esrahaddon, who they set free in the first novel, who claims that the weapon necessary to kill the beast is locked in an elven tower. Of course, the wizard has his own reasons for wanting to get inside. Meanwhile, the Church of Novron is maneuvering to plant a new heir on the imperial throne and thus hoping to gain control of Elan. They plan to accomplish this by having the “heir” kill the same monster attacking Dhalgren. As can be expected with many conflicting agendas, nothing goes according to plan.

The second book in this new epic fantasy series is a bit of an improvement over the first. The plot is, if anything, a little tighter, focusing on the confrontation with the magical beast. There is more background on the main characters of Royce and Hadrian as well as on the Church and the history of Elan. The Crown Conspiracy had a couple places where there was some info dumping close together in the narrative, and Avempartha has this as well, however it is only a minor concern and is otherwise well handled. As in the first novel, the second is essentially self-contained, though it does set up the plot for the next book.

Avempartha is a worthy sequel to The Crown Conspiracy. In fact, I’d say it probably surpasses it. I definitely recommend this new series and I look forward to the third book, Nyphron Rising.

Rating: 8/10

NYT bestsellers for May 1st

Hardcover:
Stephanie Meyer’s The Host is down one to number 6 and marks its 50th week on the NYT bestseller list. (Amazon, B&N)

Jim Butcher’s Turn Coat finishes its third week down seven to number 10. (Amazon, B&N)

Aaron Allston’s Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Outcast comes in clear at the bottom of the list at number 35, down eleven points in its fifth week. (Amazon, B&N)

Paperback:
David Benioff’s City of Thieves is steady at number 3 in its week four. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ From Dead to Worse slips a point in its fourth week to number 5. (Amazon, B&N)

Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is down three ranks to number 10 in its fourth week. (Amazon, B&N)

Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Acheron rounds out its fourth week at number 25, up two. (Amazon, B&N)

Charlaine Harris’ Dead Until Dark and Leaving Dead in Dallas are at number 21 and 28 respectively.

Brent Weeks The Way of Shadows is back on the list at number 35.