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    Featured series – April: ‘The Clockwork Century’ by Cherie Priest

    April has already arrived and gave us a few wonderful, warm and sunny days here in Belgium. Unfortunately the rain has come again and the sun only shows itself occasionally. So to brighten my days, I’m reading an amazing series that I want to feature on the blog this month: ‘The Clockwork Century’ by Cherie Priest. As always, feel free to read along with me! I’m a big steampunk fan, though I only discovered the genre last year. ‘Boneshaker’, the first book in ‘The Clockwork Century’ series was actually the first steampunk book I ever read and I loved it. A while ago I won the 4 books (at the…

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    New Releases – November (1)

    Midkemia: The Chronicles of Pug – Raymond E. Feist & Stephen Abrams “In the first year of the reign of King Lyam conDoin, I, Pug of Crydee, magician to the royal court and cousin to the King by adoption, do take quill in hand and set forth this writ, that all may benefit from the knowledge I have gained…” – Pug of Stardock So begins the narrative account of Feist’s best-selling character, Pug of Stardock, for Midkemia: The Chronicles of Pug. Part travel log/journal and part atlas, this visual compendium brings the world of Midkemia to vivid, illustrative life, and gives readers a completely new look at the creative genius…

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    Boneshaker – The Clockwork Century #1 – Cherie Priest

    Release Date: September 29th, 2009 Publisher: Tor Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 416 Format: Paperback Source: Bought In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to…