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  • Book ReviewsFantasyLiterary
    By Cat Treadwell
    April 22, 2025
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    THE NAMING SONG by Jedediah Berry (BOOK REVIEW)

    When something fell from the something tree, all the words went away. And the world changed. Monsters slipped from dreams. The land began to shift and ...
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  • Book ReviewsContemporaryFantasyLiteraryMagic realismSpeculative
    By T.O. Munro
    February 11, 2025
    2077
    1

    GIFTED & TALENTED by Olivie Blake (BOOK REVIEW)

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyLiterary
    By T.O. Munro
    September 12, 2023
    1086
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    A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES by Anna Smith-Spark (BOOK REVIEW)

    Readers of Shauna Lawless and Thilde Kold Holdt will love this Celtic-inflected adventure by critically acclaimed, grimdark epic fantasy novelist, Anna Smith Spark. A Sword of ...
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  • Book ReviewsLiteraryRomanceSpeculative
    By Nils Shukla
    June 13, 2023
    2086
    1

    SHARK HEART: A LOVE STORY by Emily Habeck (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Are we all just actors, performing some unbound art form for God, the audience of space? I wish I could have seen then what I know ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyLiterarySpeculative
    By Nils Shukla
    June 2, 2023
    1309
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    MOTHTOWN by Caroline Hardaker (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Melt everything down to a great white blank. Eat anything that oozes out. No one knows how it all goes in Mothtown, and no one ever ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyLiterary
    By T.O. Munro
    March 8, 2023
    2582
    3

    A WOMAN OF THE SWORD by Anna Smith Spark (Book Review)

    A Woman of the Sword is set on the many-nationed continent of Irlast which featured in Smith Spark’s debut Empires of Dust trilogy. That trilogy followed ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalLiterary
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 7, 2023
    1569
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    THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA by Shehan Karunatilaka (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Being a ghost isn’t that different to being a war photographer. Long periods of boredom interspersed with short bursts of terror. As action-packed as your post-death ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyLiteraryWeird
    By Jonathan Thornton
    December 12, 2022
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    CHILDREN OF PARADISE by Camilla Grudova (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Living in the past in the same place I have to be in the present, my mind often feels like a double exposed photograph, and the ...
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  • Book ReviewsLiterarySpeculativeWomen In SFF
    By Jonathan Thornton
    July 6, 2022
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    ANIMALS AT NIGHT by Naomi Booth (BOOK REVIEW)

    “They’re getting drunk and reminiscing about their old lives, about gigs and parties and festivals on faraway beaches where they’d danced and played like animals at ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyLiterary
    By Jonathan Thornton
    January 26, 2022
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    UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch (BOOK REVIEW)

    “We all live in the interstices of each other’s lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.” Under The Net (1954) ...
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