Historical
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CARVED FROM STONE AND DREAM by T. Frohock (Book Review)
This is the fifth story in Teresa Frohock’s Los Nefilim series, though it’s the second that is a more conventional full novel length, rather than the ... -
THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY by Alix E. Harrow (Book Review)
‘Worlds were never meant to be prisons, locked and suffocating and safe. Worlds were supposed to be great rambling houses with all the windows thrown open ... -
IN NUMINA by Assaph Mehr (Book Review)
“Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Felix, sometimes known as Felix the Fox.” Take the subgenre of Roman whodunnits, add a dash of Scooby ... -
THE SWORD OF KAIGEN by M.L. Wang (Book Review)
“I know you might feel broken, but we’re jijakalu. We’re water, and water can shift to fit any mold. No matter how we’re broken and reshaped, ... -
Adrift in the Middle Kingdom by J. Slauerhoff (Translated by David McKay)
“There is no better place on earth to live for a man tormented by his fate and threatened by those demons, like you. Try never to ... -
The Gameshouse by Claire North (Book Review)
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets…. It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon-every ... -
Lancelot by Giles Kristian (Book Review)
It’s taken me some time to gather my thoughts about Lancelot – I’d been immersed in its world for so long that it no longer feels ... -
The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky (Book Review)
I’ve just finished The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky and I’m a bit blown away. It starts as a very tight and intimate ... -
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (Book Review)
I had been looking forward to cracking open this novella since I happened across an ARC at BristolCon last year (talk about striking gold!). I discovered ... -
Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock (Book Review)
Where Oblivion Lives takes us once more into Frohock’s world of Los Nefilim – a fantasy creation overlaid on historical reality as intrinsically and indivisibly as ...