Booklist Review
Jennings' debut is a deliciously mysterious Gothic fairy tale wrapped in elegantly descriptive prose. Nineteen-year-old Betina Scott is a proper young lady who diligently takes care of her delicately dispositioned mother. But is Tina really a good girl? Before her brothers left, folks in their small, close-knit community say Tina was always the instigator of trouble, although never the one caught or blamed. She cannot remember being that person and questions what really happened the day her father went away three years ago. Then one day a scribbled note arrives, written on the back of a three-year-old newspaper article in the handwriting of one of her brothers, that simply says, "You coward, Tink." Determined to find answers, and with the help of two friends who have reasons of their own for joining the hunt, Tina runs away to track her sibling. Teeming with folklore from the Australian Outback, this compelling mystery is laced with familial connections and interspersed with entwined tales of curses, miracles, witches, and vengeance.
Library Journal Review
With his stories already nominated for Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy honors, debut novelist Rosenbaum (The Ant King and Other Stories) returns with The Unraveling, which dreams up a far-future, distant-galaxy, rigidly structured society where individuals have multiple bodies and staid-gendered Fift and bail-gendered bioengineer Shria wind up in the midst of an eyebrow-raising art spectacle. Salvatore's Relentless closes his "Generations" trilogy with Zaknafein reunited with son Drizzt Do'Urden and reconciled to life's unpredictability (100,000-copy first printing).
