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Author: Shona Kinsella

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Shona Kinsella

Shona Kinsella is a Scottish fantasy author who lives on the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond with her husband and three children. She is the author of Ashael Rising (Unbound, 2017), Petra McDonald and the Queen of the Fae (Fox Spirit, 2018) and Miranya’s Oath (an illustrated web serial). You can find out more about her work at www.shonakinsella.com and she loves talking to new people on Twitter www.twitter.com/shona_kinsella 

  • Book ReviewsFeaturesHorrorSpeculativeWomen In SFF
    By Shona Kinsella
    July 12, 2022
    1577
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    THE BOOK OF THE BAKU by R.L. Boyle

    Sean is a 13-year-old boy who has been taken into care and eventually fostered by his estranged grandfather. His grandfather is a writer, living in a ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHighRomance
    By Shona Kinsella
    July 8, 2022
    2329
    1

    TOGETHER WE BURN by Isabel Ibañez (BOOK REVIEW)

    Zarela Zalvidar is a flamenco dancer, daughter of a much beloved flamenco dancer and the most renowned Dragonador in Hispalia. That’s right, Dragonador – as in ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionScience-FantasySpace Opera
    By Shona Kinsella
    June 23, 2022
    2104
    2

    CYTONIC by Brandon Sanderson (BOOK REVIEW)

    Cytonic is the third instalment in the Skyward series and honestly, I’m a little conflicted about it. This review contains spoilers for the first two books ...
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  • Book ReviewsDystopianFantasy
    By Shona Kinsella
    August 16, 2021
    2154
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    THE WOLF MILE by C.F. Barrington (BOOK REVIEW)

    The Pantheon is a world-wide game, funded by the wealthy elite and talked about in hushed whispers by the general population, a source of unending speculation ...
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  • Book ReviewsHorror
    By Shona Kinsella
    December 8, 2020
    2511
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    HOPE ISLAND by Tim Major (BOOK REVIEW)

    Nina Scaife is a workaholic TV producer, taking her first holiday in years. She has just arrived on Hope Island with her teenage daughter, Laurie, to ...
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  • Thinner by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
    Book ReviewsHorrorThe Stephen King Project
    By Shona Kinsella
    February 11, 2020
    4333
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    The Stephen King Project – Thinner (1984)

    About the project I will be reading all of Stephen King’s books in order of publication (with the exception of The Dark Tower series which I ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience Fiction
    By Shona Kinsella
    February 7, 2020
    4521
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    FIREWALKERS by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book Review)

    Sometime around the end of 2017 or beginning of 2018, I saw a call for short stories for an anthology titled If This Goes On, edited ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionYA
    By Shona Kinsella
    January 31, 2020
    5403
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    STARSIGHT by Brandon Sanderson (Book Review)

    Starsight is the sequel to Sanderson’s 2018 YA novel, Skyward, which you may remember I also reviewed. I really enjoyed Skyward so I was desperate to ...
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  • The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
    Book ReviewsFantasyHorrorThe Stephen King Project
    By Shona Kinsella
    January 30, 2020
    6406
    6

    The Stephen King Project – The Talisman (1984)

    About the project I will be reading all of Stephen King’s books in order of publication (with the exception of The Dark Tower series which I ...
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  • Queens of the Wyrd by Timandra Whitecastle
    Book ReviewsFantasyNorse
    By Shona Kinsella
    January 24, 2020
    4045
    1

    QUEENS OF THE WYRD by Timandra Whitecastle (Book Review)

    I’ve been reading fantasy for a long time and if there’s one class of people that I’ve noticed a glaring absence of, it’s mothers. I mean, ...
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