This probably tells anyone anything they might want to know about what I think about the current chaotic state of this year’s Hugo Awards. Marko Kloos withdrew his nomination because his eligible book, Lines of Departure, was on the Puppy ballots. His full statement is on his blog, The Munchkin Wrangler, but the very short paraphrase is that he felt that his book only made it because it was on a Puppy slate, and he couldn’t accept an award nomination that wasn’t earned by the quality of the work. He also disassociated himself from the Puppies.
I’m probably not the only person who had this response, but when I read his withdrawal, I bought his first two books, Terms of Enlistment and Lines of Departure, and grabbed a review copy of the third, Angles of Attack, from NetGalley. I enjoy military SF and the reviews of the first two books are pretty stellar. so I’m looking forward to these.
For Review:
Angles of Attack (Frontlines #3) by Marko Kloos
The Brass Giant (Chroniker City #1) by Brooke Johnson
Katrina: After the Flood by Gary Rivlin
Knight’s Shadow (Greatcoats #2) by Sebastien de Castell
Murder and Mayhem (Murder and Mayhem #1) by Rhys Ford
A Pattern of Lies (Bess Crawford #7) by Charles Todd
Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran
The Story by Judith Miller
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Waterloo: the True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
Zer0es (Zer0es #1) by Chuck Wendig
Purchased from Amazon:
Lines of Departure (Frontlines #2) by Marko Kloos
Lowcountry Boil (Liz Talbot #1) by Susan M. Boyer
Lowcountry Bombshell (Liz Talbot #2) by Susan M. Boyer
Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines #1) by Marko Kloos
Great haul! I’ve not heard of any of these but The Story has a great cover. I may have to read that one! Happy reading!
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
I guess I don’t keep up with award things so I have no clue what is going on with Hugo as I don’t buy books because of an award them win, I read what I like. (same goes with movies..lol) So I had no clue what a puppy was or anything..lol.
You got a lot of books so I hope you enjoy them all!! 🙂
These are all new to me but I hope you enjoy them.
Come and check out OUaT’s STS!
Leydy @ OUaT
I haven’t seen any of these. I love coming across new books! Here’s my STS! 🙂
Nice haul, I hope you enjoy your books.
Diane @ Diane’s Book Blog
Bernard Cornwell ! I loved his Sharpe series, have almost read it all… and watched it all 😉
I have been reading Kloos’ books from the start and think they are fun Space Opera. I have Knight’s Shadow on my wish list. Loved book one.
Nice haul. I nabbed a copy of Knight’s Shadow this week as well. The first book was good, not great, but I really felt it improved towards the end and left me with the hope that the next book would be great. We’ll see . . . 🙂
So many great books! How will you ever find time to read them all? 😉 The Brass Giant sounds interesting.
My Stacking The Shelves post.