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DAUGHTER OF THE SUN by Effie Calvin (BOOK REVIEW)
Daughter of the Sun is the second book in the Tales of Inthya series, but it works perfectly as a standalone (though it did make me ... -
THE COMBAT CODES by Alexander Darwin (SPFBO 6 FINALIST REVIEW)
Phase 2 of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off is drawing to a close at the end of this month! Keep track of the finalists’ scoreboard here. If you’re ... -
THORN by Intisar Khanani (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warning: Heroine’s family vary from emotionally to physically abusive. I first read Thorn in 2018, as a self-published novel, and I loved its smart, wry, ... -
ALL THE STARS AND TEETH by Adalyn Grace (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: violence and death; mild body horror; blood magic; mention of abusive relationships. Amora is the princess of the island kingdom Visidia, and in order ... -
QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS by Helen Corcoran (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: murder, violence (not graphic). You ever just read a book so perfect for you that it’s like the author wrote it on spec to ... -
Author Spotlight – A. F. E. Smith (DAWN RISING)
A.F.E. Smith’s first published book, Darkhaven, was one of 15 chosen from more than 5000 fantasy and sci-fi novels that were submitted to Harper Voyager during a ... -
THE CALL by Peadar O’Guilin (Book Review)
At a convention recently, I heard O’Guilin explain how he didn’t realise he was writing Young Adult fiction when he started as an author; that this ... -
SNOWSPELLED by Stephanie Burgis (SPFBO Semi-Finalist Review)
The fifth Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) is reaching the end of round 1! We spent the last five months cutting our batch of 30 books down ... -
One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence
Caution: review may contain spoilers. In Mark Lawrence’s gradual migration away from the world and characters of his debut novel Prince of Thorns, One Word Kill ... -
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
“We are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.” An argument used to ...
