Book Review: ‘Pretenders to the Throne of God’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Pretenders to the Throne of God is the fourth book in Adrian Tchaikovsky‘s Tyrant Philosophers series. Tchaikovsky has established himself as one of modern speculative fiction’s preeminent world...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Rose Field’– The Book of Dust Vol. 3 by Philip Pullman
The Rose Field The Rose Field – The Book of Dust Volume Three by Philip Pullman brings readers to the end of a journey that began with the publication of The Golden Compass, the first book in the...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Written on the Dark’ by Guy Gavriel Kay
Written on the Dark Written on the Dark is the latest book from the pen and mind of historical/fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay. Unfortunately calling the genre historical/fantasy does what Kay creates...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Faithbreaker’ by Hannah Kaner
Faithbreaker Faithbreaker is the third and concluding book in Hannah Kaner’s Fallen Gods trilogy. Over the course of the first two books (Godkiller and Sunbringer) we were introduced to a world where...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Witch Queen of Redwinter’ by Ed McDonald
The Redwitner Chronicles In The Witch Queen of Redwinter Ed McDonald brings his Redwinter Chronicles to a surprising and resounding conclusion. The third book of the series sees its protagonist Raine...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Legacy of Arniston House’ by T. L. Huchu
The Edinburgh Nights Series In The Legacy of Arniston House, T.L. Huchu presents the fourth instalment in his Edinburgh Nights series. As in the three previous books, we follow...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Wood at Midwinter’ by Susanna Clarke
Midwinter The Wood At Midwinter by Susanna Clarke is a magical and charming story celebrating its main character’s love of all things natural. Clarke, best known for her novels Jonathon Strange and...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic’ by Alan Moore and...
The Moon and Serpent Book of Magic The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, published by Top Shelf Productions, is a veritable tome of magical knowledge. This 352-page behemoth is written by Alan...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Every Rising Sun’ By Jamila Ahmed
Scheherezade Everybody knows the story of Scheherazade and The Thousand and One Nights. Well, maybe not. In Every Rising Sun Jamila Ahmed gives us a new perspective on an old story and opens our eyes...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘A Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands’ by Sarah Brooks
The Wastelands In The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands Sarah Brooks has created both an exciting adventure story and a wonderful metaphor for so-called civilization’s attitude towards...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Saint of Bright Doors’ by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Saint of Bright Doors The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera is a wonderful and beguiling fantasy set in some indeterminate time and place. In this world, both location and era are often...
View ArticleGraphic Novel Review: ‘GLEEM’ by Freddy Carrasco, from Drawn+Quarterly
GLEEM GLEEM by Freddy Carrasco, published by Drawn and Quarterly, is afrofuturism dancing to the complicated beat of cyberpunk to show a world questioning not only what it means to be human but what...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Enimnori: Arrival’ – ‘Game of Thrones’ Meets ‘Back to the Future’
If you miss watching Game of Thrones and love the Back to the Future movies, writer Jeff Webber’s Enimnori: Arrival has the book for you. This is a highly imaginative, intriguing, and enjoyable...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Navigating Fox’ by Christopher Rowe
The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe is a small slice of inspired fantasy set in a world where somehow some animals have become “knowledgable,” obtaining the power of speech and human reason. Not...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Jin-bot of Shantiport’ by Samit Basu
The Jin-bot of Shantiport The Jin-bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu is a wonderful mixture of urban fantasy and myth set in a futuristic spaceport town. Save for it being a spaceport instead of a...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle’ by T. L. Huchu
The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle is the third book in T.L Huchu’s “Nights of Edinburgh” series. However, instead of wandering the streets of Edinburgh and investigating...
View ArticleInterview: Petrea Burchard, ‘Camelot & Vine: A Novel’ Author and Narrator
Voice actor and audiobook narrator Petrea Burchard (Tenchi Muyo!) first published Camelot & Vine: A Novel in 2013. A time-traveling twist on the legend of King Arthur, the book focuses on the...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘A Darker Shade of Magic’ By V.E. Schwab
In A Darker Shade of Magic (the first book in “The Shades of Magic” series) V. E. Schwab has created a complex and intriguing world. Well, it would be probably more accurate to say worlds and to say...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Flint and Mirror’ by John Crowley
Flint and Mirror In Flint and Mirror John Crowley takes readers back to Elizabethan England. More specifically, we are carried across the Irish Sea to ever-restive and unsettled Catholic Ireland which...
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