Blog in Exile: Reviews for 6/13

The mighty Elmira Star-Gazette turns its august eye to the new YA novel in the "Gaia Girls" series, Way of Water by Lee Welles.

Blogcritics reviews J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumous The Children of Hurin.

The Agony Column looks at Michael Stackpole's trilogy-concluding The New World.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews The Bestiary by Nicholas Christopher.

Neth Space reviews Jay Lake's Mainspring.

My feed for the LJ group "Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth" has finally kicked back in; I won't go back and link everything, but the most recent (still a few days old) piece I saw was this review of the George Mann-edited Solaris Book of New SF.

Strange Horizons reviews Catherine Jinks's Evil Genius.

Book Fetish whips up a review of Meljean Brook's Demon Moon.

Political Affairs Magazine reviews Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

Farah Mendelssohn reviews Joan Lennon's In Between the Worlds.

Kate Nepveu reviews Sarah Monette's Melusine and The Virtu.