Book Reviews
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Age of Assassins by RJ Barker
The Good: Loveable first person POV, worldbuilding that weaves into the plot and the systems within the story, plenty of twists to keep you guessing, a grand ... -
Legend by David Gemmell
The Good: Heroes and heroines, heroic-fantasy, sword and sorcery, low fantasy, military fantasy. The Bad: Skims on the trimming of finer detail, but not to the detriment of ... -
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Geralt of Rivia is a witcher: a man who has suffered through years of gruelling training and exposure to terrible alchemic mutations in order to become ... -
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
She Who Waits is the third instalment in Daniel Polansky’s Low Town series, and rounds off this particular trilogy about the life of Warden. It’s a thrilling ... -
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
Genre giant Steven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon is the first in a ten-book series that you will inevitably love and worship. (Or hate and resent.) (Or ... -
When the Heavens Fall by Marc Turner
It was obvious from the very first page that Marc Turner’s Chronicles of the Exile was yet another epic fantasy series I’d end up eagerly following. After seeing When the Heavens ... -
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
Anyone will tell you that the middle part of any trilogy is usually the weakest; that it functions mostly as filler between books one and three, a ... -
Los Nefilim by Teresa Frohock
RIGHT NOW is a phenomenal time to be a fan of speculative fiction. Seriously: there’s an insane amount of amazing SFF writers in today’s market, and ... -
Those Above by Daniel Polansky
Those Above is the first instalment of Polansky’s epic fantasy duology The Empty Throne. Set in a world dominated by ‘Those Above’ – immortal four-fingered beings ... -
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries. The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a 150-page adventure with Auri, a minor character from the ...
