Steampunk
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SPFBO 11 Third Semi-Finalist Review: SHADOWS DARK AND DEADLY by Andrea Marie Johnson
Here at the fantasy-hive we don’t like numbers, or stars, or quantifiable ratings – although we do admit we have to give out numerical scores for ... -
ENTWINED by H. M. Long (BOOK REVIEW)
Three sisters join the hunt for a stolen magical artefact in the start of this Gilded Age fantasy duology. Ottilie Rushforth hides from the mighty Sorcerer’s ... -
CRUISING THE COSMERE: Shadows of Self (BOOK REVIEW)
Note: this review will contain mild Mistborn spoilers. “These days, Elendel just didn’t need as many carriage drivers as it did automobile repairmen. You had ... -
MASTER OF DJINN by P. Djèlí Clark (BOOK REVIEW)
Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark is the first full length novel set in his alternate Cairo universe. Other works set in this same universe ... -
TRIGGERNOMETRY and ADVANCED TRIGGERNOMETRY by Stark Holborn (BOOK REVIEW)
The novella/short novel format seems to have a natural affinity for tales of the wild west from my early school experience reading Shane (38,000 words) by ... -
THE STEEL DISCORD by Ryan Howse (SPFBO Semi-Finalist Review)
The fifth Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) is almost reaching the end of round 1! We spent the last five months cutting our batch of 30 books ... -
The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft (Book Review)
Warning: this review may contain spoilers for The Hod King and the Books of Babel series! When as a boy, Thomas Senlin had been told his ... -
The Hive Reads… The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan
Welcome to the first instalment of our monthly ‘Hive Reads’ feature! After settling on The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan as our January read, a bunch ... -
The Scar by China Miéville
Some years ago I had the pleasure of reading China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station, a bizarre steampunkish secondary-world fantasy featuring the most terrifying beasties I have ... -
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
“There’s never going to be an end to suffering if ‘he deserves it’ is all the justification people need for inflicting pain.” Ken Liu is known ...
