What is SPFBO? Check out Mark Lawrence’s post here to look at this year’s entrants, judges and allocations list.

This year I am teaming up again with the ladies from The Critiquing Chemist.

Stage 1 of the SPFBO competition concludes today and it is with great pleasure that team LB=TC2 announce their finalist.  I’m not going to drag this post out as I know this is a nerve wracking time for the authors involved so let’s just cut straight to the chase.  Our finalist is :

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My review is here.  Please check out the Critiquing Chemist’s post here.

This is not a decision that is lightly made.  We had some excellent books in our batch and some very tough calls to make.  Our thanks to all the authors that took part.  I strongly recommend our other Semi finalists and will be recapping shortly with all the links to the books.  I would also strongly advise checking out the other judges sites (again, I’ll provide links to those so that you can check out the other semi finalists and finalists chosen.  But today’s post is all about the finalist.

The phase two board can be found here.

My congratulations to Quenby Olson and good wishes for Phase Two of the competition.

Our average score is 9/10