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Michael Shotter Author Of 309

From Michael's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Michael's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Michael Shotter Why Michael loves this book

I loved the convincing, if rather disturbing, world of this book, and the way it meshed a variety of speculative-fiction elements in defiance of any one genre.

By Coy Hall ,

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1 author picked Colossus with a Poison Tongue as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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In the City of Saint Ghost, life revolves around an imposing statue, the Colossus, a god cast in bronze. Here is the creator of an alchemical world of priests and soothsayers. But if even the lowliest who live in His shadow are sacred, why is the Titan unable to stem the onslaught of horrors that seep through stone, tunnel in the earth, and bubble in the veins?Why do withered homunculi chew catacombs beneath His streets? Why do golems rise from His clay? Why do devils in copper outthink even the most learned of His priests? And why does a blood-boiling…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of The House at the End of Lacelean Street

Michael Shotter Author Of 309

From Michael's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Michael's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Michael Shotter Why Michael loves this book

I loved the unique and original take on a "haunted house" story, and how "real" the characters felt.

By Catherine McCarthy ,

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1 author picked The House at the End of Lacelean Street as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

It's midnight and in the midst of an ice storm when Claudia Dance boards the bright yellow bus to Lacelean Street, a destination she has never heard of. She has no coat, no luggage, and no clue as to why she left home. In fact, she has no memory of her past whatsoever, and yet she feels compelled to make the trip. She will come to realize that salvation lies within the red-brick house at the end of Lacelean Street, a salvation granted by the strange power that dwells within. Sanity will be questioned, limits tested, and answers revealed... But…


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