The Book Plank

With the Review Round-up  posts I try to capture the best books that I have read those months. Since I read about 20 books minimum each month and in the majority of the cases there are many books that I really enjoyed. But I am trying to narrow this down to a top 5 books for each month that are not per se my most highest rated books but they can also be extraordinary books of self published authors where they dare to engage into new idea's. Looking back at the genres that I read in November it again spans out over a many different genres: Steampunk, Epic, Sci-Fi, Urban, Young Adult, Horror, Historical Fiction. I had the chance to pick up one of the most unexpected  My top 5 of the November books are (not in this order): 1. Blood and Feathers (Solaris)  by Lou Morgan 2. The Falling Machine (Pyr)  by Andrew P. Mayer 3. Babylon Steel by (Solaris)  Gaie Sebold 4. Tomorrow the Killing  (Hodder and Stoughton)  by Daniel Polansky 5.  Phoenix Risin...

Once he was a hero of the Great War, and then a member of the dreaded Black House. Now he is the criminal linchpin of Low Town. His name is Warden. He thought he had left the war behind him, but a summons from up above brings the past sharply, uncomfortably, back into focus. General Montgomery’s daughter is missing somewhere in Low Town, searching for clues about her brother’s murder. The General wants her found, before the stinking streets can lay claim to her, too. Tomorrow the Killing is the second book in the Low Town series written by Daniel Polansky. The first book Straight Razor Cure  had a really unique and very dark and gritty setting to it. But more over Daniel Polansky introduced me to the “Warden”, who remains most mysterious in the first book. And after finishing it, it raised many questions for me that I hoped would be answered in the books to follow. In this, Tomorrow the Killing lived up to my expectations, and above it. Again you get to meet u...