Book Reviews
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A WITCH’S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING A DEMON by Sarah Hawley (BOOK REVIEW)
“Life wasn’t a fairy tale full of true love and redeemed villains. The villains were called that for a reason. Mariel had just never expected her ... -
HEIR OF NOVRON by Michael J. Sullivan (BOOK REVIEW)
This review will contain spoilers for the previous books in this series, Theft of Swords and Rise of Empire. There may also be minor spoilers for ... -
THE WITCH IN THE WELL by Camilla Bruce (BOOK REVIEW)
“They will come to the well whether we want them to or not, pulled by the power of our misery. Like calls to like, and there ... -
OWLISH by Dorothy Tse, translated by Natascha Bruce (BOOK REVIEW)
Dorothy Tse – Owlish (2020, translated by Natascha Bruce 2023) “He first saw her back, her spine like a giant millipede extending from her coccyx to ... -
CHLORINE by Jade Song (BOOK REVIEW)
“Mermaids are not born. We are made. I burst into being when I was seventeen years old. I became a mermaid not as a pearl in ... -
THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (BOOK REVIEW)
Nobody notices anything because nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin. And end. Lavanya Lakshminarayan is a Locus Award finalist and ... -
SANDMAN (Volume 1 – Preludes & Nocturnes) by Neil Gaiman (Reviewed by T.O.Munro)
I was brought up on 2000AD comics with Judge Dredd bestriding a post-apocalyptic landscape and a catalogue of other dystopian characters (Does Strontium Dog – a ... -
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 ... -
THE CLIFF HOUSE by Chris Brookmyre (BOOK REVIEW)
“What happens on Calchan Geal, stays on Clachan Geal” Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite ... -
THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SAFIRI by Shannon Chakraborty (BUDDY READ BOOK REVIEW)
Before we get to the review, a quick note from us here at the Hive. The Fantasy Hive are in support of the Harper Collins Union ...