Fantasy
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THE TRIALS OF EMPIRE by Richard Swan (BOOK REVIEW)
Please note this review will contain spoilers for the first two books in the trilogy. “The time for high-minded ideals is gone. We have ... -
THE WARM HANDS OF GHOSTS by Katherine Arden (BOOK REVIEW)
“Give people God’s power-to build ships like islands, or fly like birds, or set fire to the bowels of earth like the devil in his damned ... -
THE WITCHWOOD KNOT by Olivia Atwater (BOOK REVIEW)
“On a clear and sunny day, Witchwood Manor might have been beautiful. The countryside mansion sprawled so broadly in either direction that several of its famous ... -
FATHOMFOLK by Eliza Chan (BUDDY READ BOOK REVIEW)
At the end of last year, Nils and I had an online catch-up with Nazia from Orbit, and one of the books we both loved the ... -
THE BOOK OF LOVE by Kelly Link (BOOK REVIEW)
“She could smell him, something burnt and musky and sweet, like a fire that had gone out. His nails were longer than hers and blackened as ... -
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST by Premee Mohamed (BOOK REVIEW)
“What did not live here was people, and even that was not strictly true, because nothing was. They were people-ish, and they had no name, and ... -
THE TAINTED CUP by Robert Jackson Bennett (BOOK REVIEW)
“That’s the problem with figuring shit out – eventually you run into someone who’d prefer all their shit remained thoroughly unfigured.” Enter a world where ... -
THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez (BOOK REVIEW)
If you’re looking for a story in the same vein as Princess Mononoke but with giggling, psychic tortoises, horrifically cruel antagonists, and a uniquely developed queer ... -
IN THE SHADOW OF THEIR DYING by Michael R Fletcher and Anna Smith-Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
The third best assassin. A second rate mercenary crew. One terrifying demon. As Sharaam crumbles under siege, a mercenary crew hires an assassin to kill the ... -
AN EDUCATION IN MALICE by S. T. Gibson (BOOK REVIEW)
Carmilla and I grew even more entangled, like flowers who, denied sufficient sunlight, entwine their leaves around each other and grow up strangled with love. An ...