I am totally unrestrained at the annual book sale, but the rest of the family have much more control, usually buying somewhere between 10 and 20 books apiece. My son is mostly there for fantasy and science fiction. These are a few of his picks. With awesome cover art.
The Shotgun Arcana by R. S. Belcher
Goodreads summary:
R. S. Belcher’s debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets.
Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins
From the back cover of the book:
Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.
A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists.This novel is a blend of fantasy, science fiction and thriller, set in an alternative Russia. Just my kind of book.
Skullduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer by Derek Landy
The best description of this young adult fantasy series was at Wikipedia:
Skulduggery Pleasant is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Derek Landy. The books revolve around the adventures of the skeleton detective, Skulduggery Pleasant, and a teenage girl, Stephanie Edgley/Valkyrie Cain, along with other friends.The series appears to be very popular, and not just with kids. Death Bringer is the sixth book in the series.
Bonesy by Mark Rigney
When Reverend Renner's mentor gives him a brass rubbing of a skeleton, a chain of calamity. The skeletal image, nick-named Bonesy, breaks free from its frame and begins a violent, chaotic search for--what? It's up to Renner and his investigative partner, ex-linebacker Dale Quist, to uncover Bonesy's spectral motives.
Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler
From the back cover of the book:
Carter Sloan is a trained assassin—the best there is, pulled out of cryogenic sleep whenever an assignment demands his skills. So when he’s kept in the deep freeze for 258 years, he’s seriously pissed off.
My son has finished reading this book already, and he liked it. I read the first chapter in this book and it was great. I want to read it.
