Fantasy
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THE MIDNIGHT MUSE by Jo Kaplan (BOOK REVIEW)
Tragedy Feeds the Soil in Jo Kaplan’s Midnight Muse It’s easy to forget the creeping dread built into the most banal parts of being a person. ... -
THE BLACKFIRE BLADE by James Logan (BOOK REVIEW)
The Blackfire Blade (The Last Legacy #2) by James Logan A controlled, less chaotic sequel that advances the game-like narrative significantly I am thankful to ... -
Fantasy and the legacy of the ‘female gothic’ – GUEST POST by Natasha Siegel (AS MANY SOULS AS STARS)
Natasha Siegel’s historical fantasy debut AS MANY SOULS AS STARS is out this week from Bloomsbury and to celebrate, Natasha has penned a brilliantly informed guest ... -
EMPIRE OF THE DAWN by Jay Kristoff (BOOK REVIEW)
An intoxicating song of blood and smut and tragedy. Empire of the Dawn, marking the conclusion of Jay Kristoff’s epic Empire of the Vampire series, is ... -
TERMS OF SERVICE by Ciel Pierlot (BOOK REVIEW)
When her cousin gets kidnapped by a dastardly trickster, Luzia is forced to sell herself in servitude to the Eoi in exchange for his life. But ... -
BONDS OF HERCULES by Jasmine Mas (THE MONSTER BOTHERER)
If you haven’t read the first book of this series Blood of Hercules, go do that. Seriously. If I can binge read it, forgetting to sleep, ... -
EMPIRE OF THE DAMNED by Jay Kristoff (BOOK REVIEW)
A sequel that doubles down on everything great in Empire of the Vampire, while breaking you at the end of it. It’s sometimes a blessing ... -
MONSTROUS TALES: Haunting Encounters with Britain’s Mythical Beasts (BOOK REVIEW)
Monstrous Tales: Haunting encounters with Britain’s mythical beasts is a short story anthology set around the British Isles. Though I am not usually drawn to reading ... -
HERE AND ONLY HERE by Christelle Dabos, translated by Hildegarde Serle (BOOK REVIEW)
‘Paradise tastes of Nothing,’ Here and Only Here, is a tale riddled with teenage angst, desperation, anxiety and the absolute terror of going to high ... -
CINDER HOUSE by Freya Marske (BOOK REVIEW)
‘There was something about the way the dancers inhabited their bodies and the music and the stage all at once, as if they too had a ...
