I receive hundreds of books each year from publishers across the United States, as well as from British and Canadian publishers. I can’t read them all. Those I do end up reading, I make a concerted effort to write a substantive review. Some of those get a positive response from me, others receive mixed or negative comments. In each case, the opinions expressed are mine.
It should be noted that I also read many books that I purchase myself or borrow from a library. These books are treated with an identical process to the above.
Thusly, I do accept review copies. I enjoy just about anything that has to do with speculative fiction, be it science fiction, fantasy, horror, or just generally screwed in the head. If you have something you’d like me to consider for review, contact me at:
justin@staffersbookreview.com
Index of Books Reviewed
- 2012 Juice Box Award: Most Disappointing Book of the Year
- A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
- A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin
- A novel about J.R.R. Tolkein?
- A recent reading log. . .
- A Review of the Kindle Fire
- A Series of Short Audio Reviews
- A Series Review: Acacia by David Anthony Durham
- A Shambling Guide to Tao: How Plot Structure and Character Arc are Overrated
- A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
- A Thief in the Night - David Chandler
- A Tor Heavy Group of Short Review
- After the Apocalypse - Maureen McHugh
- Alchemist of Souls - Anne Lyle
- Alexander Outland: Space Pirate - G.J. Koch (and giveaway)
- All Men of Genius - Lev AC Rosen
- Alloy of Law - Brandon Sanderson
- American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Among Thieves - Douglas Hulick
- Amped - Daniel H. Wilson
- An Explosion of Young Adult Short Reviews
- An Interview with a Legend of Literary Fiction (Not Really)
- Another reading log. . .
- Arctic Rising - Tobias Buckell (and giveaway!)
- Are we trying too hard?
- Author D&D -- Epic ConFusion January 2012 (Finally)
- Author D&D Video Trailer
- Authors, Readers, and the Internet: Are we losing something?
- Blackdog - K.V. Johansen
- Blood Rights - Kristen Painter
- Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds
- Books I Most Want to Read in Early 2012
- Books I Want - Night Shade Books in May
- Books Received - Week of March 5, 2012
- Collection of Short Reviews from Early 2012
- Consider Phlebas - Ian M. Banks
- Couple of eBook Bargains
- Cover Conumdrum: Staffer's Musings and The Qwillery Talk Covers
- Cryoburn - Lois McMaster Bujold
- Curious Covers - Prince of Thorns
- Dauntless - Jack Campbell
- Dead Iron - Devon Monk
- Dear Creature - Jonathan Case
- Debris - Jo Anderton
- Den of Thieves - David Chandler
- Discount Miracles - Brand Gamblin
- Diving Into the Wreck - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Doorways - George R.R. Martin
- Empire State - Adam Christopher
- Epic Confusion - A Better Recap Post than Everyone Else
- Epic Confusion - I'm So There
- Equations of Life - Simon Morden
- Ex-Heroes - Peter Clines
- Exogene - T.C. McCarthy
- Faith by John Love
- Fantasy 102: Where do I go next?
- Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge - Lou Anders
- Feed - Mira Grant
- Five Great Veterans Day Reads
- Flash Point by Nancy Kress
- Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole
- Fuzzy Nation - John Scalzi
- Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
- Germline - T.C. McCarthy
- Giveaway - The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer
- Giveaway Winner and Next Week's Schedule
- Giving Away Two Signed Copies of T.C. McCarthy's Germline
- God's War - Kameron Hurley
- God's War by Kameron Hurley, a rewrite
- Going to the Fair and Giveaway Winners Announced
- Guest Post | Love a Blog? Nominate It by Stefan Raets
- Happy Thanksgiving, What's Coming, and a Giveaway Winner
- Heroism in Lord of the Rings, its Character Structures, and Aragorn's Relationship to Strider
- Hilarious Cover Art Juxtaposition
- Hilariously Disturbing Similarity in Covers
- Hilariously Similar Book Covers
- Hilariously Similar Book Covers
- Hope everyone had a great 4th of July
- Hugo Nominations - Because You Asked (trust me, you did)
- I feel like giving some books away
- Importance of Genre in Reader Expectations
- In which I quickly review Andre Norton, Tom Holt, and Howard Andrew Jones
- In which I write some short reviews to catch up. . .
- Infidel - Kameron Hurley
- Infidel by Kameron Hurley, a rewrite
- Interview with artist (and author) Alastair Reynolds
- Interview with Faith author John Love
- Interview with Hitchers author Will McIntosh
- Interview with Low Town author Daniel Polansky
- Interview with Night Shade Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Lassen
- Interview with Seed author Rob Ziegler
- Interview with Shadow Saga author Jon Sprunk
- Interview with Songs of the Earth author Elspeth Cooper
- Interview with T.C. McCarthy: Debut Author of Germline
- Interview with The Troupe author Robert Jackson Bennett (and giveaway)
- Interview with Winds of Khalakovo author Bradley Beaulieu
- Jade Dreams - Wakefield Mahon
- King of Thorns - Mark Lawrence
- Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey
- Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
- Libriomancer - Jim C. Hines
- Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh
- Low Town - Daniel Polansky (Giveaway & Review)
- Mage's Blood by David Hair
- Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson
- Me Popping Up Elsewhere and Giveaway Winners
- Midnight Riot - Ben Aaronovitch
- Miserere: An Autumn Tale - Teresa Frohock
- More Hilariously Similar Covers
- Necropolis - Michael Dempsey
- New Cover Art from Angry Robot
- Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
- Notable Releases - Week of May 30.
- Osiris - E.J. Swift
- Pod - Stephen Wallenfels
- Prince of Thorns - Mark Lawrence
- Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
- Publishing, Baseball, and Market Inefficiency
- Railsea by China Miéville
- Range of Ghosts - Elizabeth Bear
- Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
- Reality 36: A Richards and Klein Novel - Guy Haley
- Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
- Redshirts: A Novel of Three Codas - John Scalzi
- Releases of Interest for the Week of June 6
- Robopocalypse - Daniel H. Wilson
- Roil - Trent Jamieson
- Sam Sykes » All About eBooks
- Scourge of the Betrayer - Jeff Salyards
- Seed - Rob Ziegler
- Self-Published and Vanity Press Need Apply
- Seven Princes - John Fultz
- Shadow Ops: Control Point - Myke Cole
- Shadow Prowler - Alexey Pehov
- Shadow's Lure - Jon Sprunk (Giveaway & Review)
- Shadow's Son - Jon Sprunk
- Sharps - K.J. Parker (with mini-interview)
- Slow Apocalypse by John Varley
- Some fun deliveries...
- Some of the Best Blog Posts of 2011
- Songs of the Earth - Elspeth Cooper
- Spellwright - Blake Charlton
- Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
- Strata - Bradley P. Beaulieu and Stephen Gaskell
- SURVEY: Has Digitization Increased Errors in Books? | Publishing Perspectives
- Sword of Fire and Sea - Erin Hoffman
- Tears in Rain by Rosa Montero
- Thank You, Giveaway Winners, and Awesome Stuff
- The Ambassador's Mission - Trudi Canavan
- The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke
- The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks
- The Bones of the Old Ones by Howard Andrew Jones
- The Cassandra Project by Mike Resnick and Jack McDevitt
- The City's Son by Tom Pollock
- The Constantine Affliction by T. Aaron Payton
- The Croning - Laird Barron
- The Damned Busters - Matthews Hughes
- The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
- The Dervish House - Ian McDonald
- The Desert of Souls - Howard Andrew Jones
- The Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett
- The Dragon's Path - Daniel Abraham
- The Emperor's Knife - Mazarkis Williams
- The End Specialist - Drew Magary
- The Flames of Shadam Khoreh and the Lays of Auskaya by Bradley P. Beaulieu
- The Folding Knife - K.J. Parker
- The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
- The Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson
- The Games - Ted Kotsmaka
- The Goblin Corps - Ari Marmell
- The Great Bazaar and Brayan's Gold by Peter V. Brett
- The Greyfriar - Clay and Susan Griffith
- The Hitchers - Will McIntosh
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N.K. Jemisin
- The Juice Boxes - Best SFF Book I Read This Year Not From 2011
- The Juice Boxes - Best SFF Book of the Year (2011)
- The Juice Boxes - Best SFF Debut of the Year (2011)
- The Juice Boxes - Best SFF Editor (2011)
- The Juice Boxes - Best SFF Press for eBooks (2011)
- The Juice Boxes - Most Disappointing Book of the Year (2011)
- The Juice Boxes - SFF Cover of the Year (2011)
- The Killing Moon - N.K. Jemisin
- The King's Blood - Daniel Abraham
- The Kitschies - An Interview
- The Last Dragon - Jane Yolen
- The Magician King - Lev Grossman
- The Magicians - Lev Grossman
- The Pillars of Hercules - David Constantine
- The Providence Rider - Robert McCammon
- The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi
- The Red Knight by Miles Cameron
- The Restoration Game - Ken MacLeod
- The Return Man - V.M. Zito
- The Riftwar Saga: Fifteen Years Later
- The Riyria Revelations - Michael J. Sullivan
- The Rogue - Trudi Canavan
- The Rook - Daniel O'Malley
- The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack - Mark Hodder
- The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer and Chimera by T.C. McCarthy
- The Third - Abel Keogh
- The Traitor's Daughter - Paula Brandon
- The Troupe - Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Warded Man - Peter V. Brett
- The Whitefire Crossing - Courtney Schafer
- The Winds of Khalakovo - Bradley Beaulieu
- Thieftaker - D.B. Jackson
- This month's eBook special offers
- Thomas World - Richard Cox
- Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
- Three Short (Not)Reviews - Continuing Series Edition
- Three Short Reviews of Recently Read Books (October)
- Throne of the Crescent Moon - Saladin Ahmed
- Today I Wrote a Post Somewhere Else
- Today I wrote a post somewhere else...
- Tomes of the Undergates - Sam Sykes
- Tomorrow the Killing by Daniel Polansky
- Tooth and Nail - Jennifer Safrey
- Triggers - Robert J. Sawyers
- Upcoming reading
- Updates and Giveaway Winners!
- Various Works of Short Fiction
- Wards of Faerie by Terry Brooks
- What I did this weekend...
- Winner Announcements of Two Very Different Giveaways
- Year Zero - Rob Reid
- Zoo City - Lauren Beukes

Hmm… No R. Scott Bakker reviews??? I see Erickson, and Abercrombie on the list but no Bakker. I’d love to hear your thought concerning The Prince of Nothing saga.
It’s just been a long time since I read Bakker. One of these days.
How about Patrick Rothfuss books? I recently read The Name of the Winds, expecting myself to enjoy it but the opposite happened. It always bugs me whenever I hate a book that everyone else seems to enjoy. It feels more like I’m missing something that everbody gets and I just hate that. Gosh.. did you see how many “hate” I use in those lines *lol*
I’ve read both Rothfuss books, but did so before I started the blog. Quite enjoyed the first one. Really disliked the second.