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[thecosmiccircus]

Book Review: 'The Hunger: A Marvel Zombies Novel' by Marsheila Rockwell

Just in time for spooky season, we have a Marvel story where all our favorite heroes turn into zombies! A meteorite crash-lands in New York City (because where else would it land?) and all the superheroes turn up to investigate. Unfortunately,  the meteorite is carrying something that turns supers into zombies. Very hungry zombies. Now those zombies are taking over the world, turning all the…

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#Aconyte Books #Deadpool #Doctor Strange #Elsa Bloodstone #Marvel Books #Marvel Zombies #Nico Minoru #Zelma Stanton

[geekcavepodcast]

“The Phoenix Chase” Sends Kid Omega After the Powers of the Phoenix Force

Aconyte Books and Marvel Comics’ “School of X” line has a new novel coming out. The Phoenix Chase hails from Neil Kleid.

“Kid Omega’s latest scheme to set up his own mutant school goes horribly awry when mysterious aliens called the Remaining kidnap his “students,” demanding a rare Phoenix Egg—source of the awesome Phoenix Force—in exchange for their lives. Wildly out of his depth, Kid Omega turns to Cyclops for help. He gets a ride with space pirates the Starjammers, and someone more responsible: Cyclops’ brother Alex “Havok” Summers. Their mission: rescue the students, recover the Egg, save the day. But it won’t be easy. Galaxy-hopping sleuthing, heists, and action lead the X-Men to clues that reveal a monstrous plot using the Phoenix Egg to ultimately conquer the universe.” (Marvel Comics)

The Phoenix Chase: A School of X Novel goes on sale on May 16, 2023.

(Cover of The Phoenix Chase: A School of X Novel)

#phoenix chase #school of x #neil kleid #aconyte books #marvel comics #kid omega #x-men #phoenix egg #phoenix force #cyclops #alex summers #TGCLiz

[phoenixgrimm]

Silver Sable: Payback

Silver Sable is before all else, a Symkarian, a patriot. Doctor Von Doom has annexed her home country, selling off its treasures to pay its debt. Silver Sable has watched her country cycle through dictator after dictator and she desires, above all, freedom for Symkaria. Doom offers a deal; she tracks down Clairvoyant — a device capable of seeing the future — and in return he’ll pay off the country’s debt. To this end, Silver Sable crosses the globe, teams up with the mostly unlikely of allies — Black Cat, dodges her ex, all while trying to outwit a person who can see her every move. 

Silver Sable? Yes, please. 

Black Cat? Yes, again. 

This book is perfect for dedicated fans of Silver Sable as well as new fans. Taking cues from the comics, it reimagines well-known storylines and characters adapting them to fit the novel without eradicating what established fans love and recognize. The fight scenes were vivid, with all the drama one would see in a film or spread across the page of a comic book.

Black Cat was an unexpected, but welcome addition. Those that have read Black Cat: Discord won’t be disappointed to see her reemerge once again. The initial clash of personalities, paired with wit, and even friendship added layers to the story and gave the reader more insight into Silver Sable. It would have been nice to have been given more background on Sable’s team, how they came together, and their own personal motives for being mercenaries.

Overall, Silver Sable: Payback was a blast of a book, fast-paced featuring an interesting (underrated) heroine, and a plot diverging from the traditional good vs. evil. 

#book tumblr #book review #books #booklover #books and reading #bookworm #netgalley #silver sable #marvel #marvel books #aconyte books #black cat

[frc-heraldofdoom]

The Tyrant Skies by David Annandale, last instalment of the Marvel Untold Doom trilogy coming on 25th March (or 17th in the US).

Now, these books are really good and I'm really hyped to see Doom pitched up against the Red Skull again... but, the cover is just so disappointing 😢

We have two awesome villains with extremely cool designs who really don't like each other. We have a gipsy who has been victim of ferocious suppressions vs the epithome of Nazism! Of all the cool things and symbols you could have put on there, why the two of them just looking at each other?!

That's not even a threatening look, they're just staring at each other. Why not a big swastika above Doom castle? Now that would have been menacing!

It was the publisher, right? That looks like a work you do just because they asked you to do it that way but you really don't want to, 'cause you know it's ugly! 😅

#what happened? #the other covers were really cool! #disappoinment #doctor doom #victor von doom #red skull #johann schmidt #david annandale #marvel untold #marvel prose novels #marvel comics #aconyte books

[tymp3st]

The Market of 100 Fortunes

Trying to get this written has been a bit difficult, so I am sorry that it’s late going live. I have a lot to say about what I enjoyed and what felt a little over done but a lot of that is in the last third of the book and I don’t want to spoil it. So I kept finding myself trying to write around the things I wanted to talk about. This one is thanks to the cool folks at Aconyte. Here’s Marie…

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#NetGalley #TheMarketof100Fortunes #Aconyte Books #book review #Legend of the Five Rings #Marie Brennan #netGalley #The Market of 100 Fortunes #Tympest Books

[misterghostreads]

(via The Bootlegger's Dance)

#Arkham Horror #horror #pulp fiction #mystery #ARC Review #books #book review #bookish #book #Horror reads #horror book #Arkham #Aconyte Books

[karavansara]

A box of Dreams

My novel Dreams of Fire will finally be available outside the US, and as a result I received a box with my author copies.So I thought, why not do what all popular writers do online, and post a photo?So here it is.

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#Aconyte Books #author copies #Descent #Dreams of Fire

[downthetubes]

New Call of Cthulhu novels announced, launch in 2024, Cari Z announced as author on first “Regency Cthulhu” story

Aconyte Books, the fiction imprint of global games group Asmodee, has secured a multi-year agreement to create and publish brand new novels in their Call of Cthulhu game settings

Asmodee Entertainment have announced that Aconyte Books, the fiction imprint of global games group Asmodee, has secured a multi-year agreement with tabletop RPG masters Chaosium to create and publish brand new novels in their Call of Cthulhu game settings Regency Cthulhu – the first the work of award-winning author Cari Z – and Cthulhu by Gaslight. Call of Cthulhu is the revered roleplaying game…

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#Aconyte Books #Asmodee Entertainment #Cari Z #Cath Lauria #Chaosium #Cthulhu by Gaslight #downthetubes News #Games News #HP Lovecraft #Regency Cthulhu

[boardgametoday]

Aconyte Books announces the Play to Win podcast

Aconyte Books announces the Play to Win #podcast

Aconyte Books has announced the launch of the Play to Win podcast, accompanying Aconyte’s first non-fiction book, Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis, and presented by the author himself. Like the book, this new podcast series chronicles the rise of the modern boardgame over the last forty years. James is joined for each episode by many of those who…

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#aconyte books #everybody wins: four decades of the greatest board games ever made #james wallis #play to win #podcast

[machudson]

Me sitting in my little Siege Of X-41 hole alone with only myself for company .

#plwase llease please buy and read siege of x 41 if ur a nxm fan jts so fuxmjng good #outlaw: relentless also. and school of x #and probably every other book in the aconytes line those r just the three ive finished #x men

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Review: Into the Dark Dimension by Stuart Moore

Into the Dark Dimension: A Marvel: Crisis Protocol NovelSeries: Marvel: Crisis ProtocolAuthor: Stuart MoorePublisher: AconyteReleased: May 2, 2023Received: NetGalley Goodreads | More Marvel Books Book Summary: Sometimes protecting the world doesn’t go quite as planned. Take the battle against Dormammu. In an ideal situation, he never would have gotten such a strong foothold on the planet. Yet…

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#Book #Book Review #Books #Fantasy #Fantasy Novel #Fantasy review #Fiction #Into the Dark Dimension #Into the Dark Dimension by Stuart Moore #Literary #Literature #Marvel #Marvel Aconyte #Marvel Aconyte Novel #Marvel Aconyte Novels #marvel books #Marvel Comics #Marvel: Crisis Protocol #Net Galley #NetGalley #Review #Stuart Moore

[thecosmiccircus]

Book Review: Song of Carcosa by Josh Reynolds

In Song of Carcosa we once again join Countess Alessandra Zorzi and her protégé Pepper as they travel the world recovering dangerous occult items. This time they are in Venice, Zorzi’s hometown. But there’s precious little time for sightseeing or reminiscing. Pepper is slipping further and further down a supernatural rabbit hole that she might not be able to climb out of, and Alessandra is…

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#Aconyte Books #Arkham Horror #Horror Novels #Recommended Reading

[geekcavepodcast]

Aconyte Books and Marvel Comics Announce New “Legends of Asgard” and “School of X” Novels

Aconyte Books and Marvel Comics have announced a couple new books, one of the Legends of Asgard line and another for the School of X line.

Legends of Asgard: The Prisoner of Tartarus hails from Richard Lee Byers. Heimdall, aided by his friend Kamorr, flees across Tartarus with the minions of the Pluto in pursuit. Missing his memories, Gjallarhorn, his sword Holfund, and his winged steed, Heimdall must solve the mystery of his memory loss and escape this realm of the dead. To make matters even more dire, the dark elf Malekith has corrupted the Bifrost and plans to use the Rainbow Bridge to destroy both Midgard and Asgard.. 

The Prisoner of Tartarus goes on sale on October 4, 2022.

School of X: Sound of Light hails from Amanda Bridgeman. Dazzler thought she was done with S.H.I.E.L.D. However, a rogue agent dropped in following Dazzler’s latest gig. They have linked the Mutant Growth Hormone with the disappearance of Magneto and Cyclops. Dazzler takes the case and uncovers a mystery that threatens all mutants. She, Emma Frost, Polaris, and Rachel Grey set out on a mission that blasts them into a new dimension in an attempt to save mutantkind.

Sound of Light goes on sale on November 1, 2022.

(Images via Marvel Comics - Cover of Prisoner of Tartarus and Sound of Light)

#marvel comics #aconyte books #prisoner of tartarus #heimdall #sound of light #dazzler #emma frost #polaris #rachel grey #legends of asgard #school of x #TGCLiz

[letstalkassassinscreed]

Book Review - Assassin's Creed Daughter of No One

In this spoiler-free written review, co-host Declan gives his thoughts on the new Assassin's Creed novel Daughter of No One, written by Maria Lewis:

Before I start this spoiler-free review, I want to thank Aconyte Books and NetGalley for allowing me to read the book's review copy. Daughter of No One is due to be published around November 7th 2023, plenty of time to finish Mirage before you dive into this essential piece of reading.

Daughter of No One is an intriguing story filled with love, loss and deceit; your typical Assassin's Creed formula. However, continuing the recent trend of transmedia published by Aconyte Books, this story has enough new flair and take on the formula that it can draw you in and keep you invested from start to finish. This isn't an exaggeration. The start of the book throws you right into the deep end, and throughout the first chapter the author has managed to paint a vivid picture of the world that Roshan lives in. 

The book is also unique in the fact that it not only wants to give the reader a deeper understanding of all the trials and tribulations Roshan has faced, but also the current dilemma that has drawn her into the hidden conflict of the Hidden Ones. The way the author manages this was very clever. Instead of creating a single narrative that runs from 824CE, there is a second narrative that exists through a jump back in time to 819CE. The chapters flit between 819 and 824. What is interesting is that each time the author jumps back in time she also moves the past narrative forward, so that this past narrative from 819 to 824 ends just before the main narrative set in 824 begins in chapter 1, creating a very satisfying loop. By doing the story this way she can push the main 824 stories ahead with small callbacks to the past. To me this gave the author more room to play around with the main narrative without any worries that they had missed any details that would flesh out Roshan's past. I did enjoy this style of story as each time skip back dragged me more into Roshan's story and life, and I started to feel I understood the character on a deeper level. I am curious how this early read will impact how I see Roshan when Mirage launches in October.

The story we see in 824 is an odd Assassin's Creed story as it presents the idea that the Hidden Ones need something and they enlist Roshan's help, but that's where they stop. There are only 2 Hidden Ones mentioned, but after a few chapters they are no longer involved in the plot which was interesting because when I reached the end I started to get bad feelings about how this type of Brotherhood operates and it made me wonder if they have good intentions at heart. But even with the Hidden Ones missing from the later narrative Roshan makes up for it. She is a natural-born assassin with an inherited ability to see things that can't be seen by others, and her tenacious and hard-working nature has turned her into the perfect assassin, who is not only skilled in combat but also in movement. There were also a good few moments where we see Roshan's mental reflection on what Philo says of the Assassin's enemies and it sets up the idea that Roshan makes the perfect assassin.

Overall Daughter of No One is an essential read for all fans of Mirage, it felt more like a DLC story than a companion novel. and upon finding the book I had a lot of respect and admiration for her character and I hope we see her feature in more works. I was expecting it to be a little longer as there was a few things I would have liked to see but I do feel its pace and ending were great and made for a read that I just couldn't put down. I also like how Daughter of No One is the latest Aconyte book that not only creates a fun tie-in to the games but also helps reshape the transmedia into a world that Ubisoft should expand. I would love to see Daughter of No One and The Engines of History translated into a live-action mini-series or even animated.

#ubisoft #assassin's creed #roshan #basim #ac mirage #assassin's creed mirage #podcast

[fanworldbuildingfun]

I have a mighty need for my reading list now and for the first one? I’ll even dust off my over decade-unused French

(Though the issue is, I can’t seem to find any electronic version of the book up for purchase? Which is dowrnight odd and regrettable)

This one is supposed to be set a short time before Valhalla, during time Basim Ibn Ishaq was active in Constantinople

The fun thing is, as you are playing a French Hidden One (or Frankish, I suppose, would be more correct?), it would echo to Siege of Paris DLC and to how active the branch actually is. The DLC only hints on it, so having more backstory to go along with the hint? Would be most welcome. Moreso given that the Francia branch survived - unlike the Brittania branch

Assassin's Creed: The Silk Road (2021, Hachette Heroes, ISBN 9782019451455)

And oh hear, this one. April, I await you - for this one is supposed to center on Hytham. And Basim, naturally, seeing as this one is also set in Constantinople. I’m custious about this part, specifically:

Hytham’s brotherhood have entrusted him with uncovering where Basim’s true loyalties lie and whether the master Assassin’s personal obsessions outweigh his sense of duty

Because whoo boy. If Valhalla is anything to go by, things did NOT go the way Hidden Ones expected them to

  Assassin's Creed: The Golden City (April 2023, Aconyte Books, ISBN 9781839082214)

#Assassin's Creed #Assassin's Creed: The Silk Road #Assassin's Creed: The Golden City #Basim Ibn Ishaq #Hytham #Hytham ibn Ishaq? #(I have Ideas and I take no objections) #Silk Road should also cover the journey to Levant #Which - more insight into Alamut-Era Hidden Ones is always welcome #It's interesting how Al Mualim's seccession and Alamut's loss of influence came at about the same period as tail end of Islamic Golden Age #I wonder if the shift in priorities from scholarly to militaristic due to the period context contributed to it #Assassin's Creed: Valhalla #Tagging due to character first-appearance

[tymp3st]

Shadows of Pnath

I’m pretty happy to be finally reviewing this one. It feels like every time I’ve tried to get a review written something has come up and then nothing would get done for weeks at a time, this time something came up right after I scheduled it. This marks the fourth time I’ve read it for review, because I enjoyed it enough to want to get my thoughts right on it. This one is thanks to the nice folks…

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#ShadowsofPnath #Aconyte Books #Arkham Horror #book review #Josh Reynolds #netGalley #Shadows of Pnath #Tympest Books