Book Reviews
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THE BITTER CROWN by Justin Lee Anderson (BOOK REVIEW)
The Bitter Crown is the sequel to Justin Lee Anderson’s The Lost War, and the second book in his Eidyn Saga. This review will contain spoilers for The Lost ... -
The Hive reads THE HOBBIT – Final Part (READALONG)
Again we find we broke at around the same point that Jackson did, with Smaug – enraged by the smelly Dwarves and thieving Hobbit, flying off ... -
The Hive reads THE HOBBIT – Part 2 (READALONG)
Well that was a bit of surprise! We have besmirched Peter Jackson for toying with the canon narrative of the Hobbit and carving it into three ... -
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED by Frances White (BOOK REVIEW)
What a book to start 2024 with. Fantasy? Check. Magic? Yep. Humour? Definitely. ‘Closed room’ murder-mystery? 100%. I went into Voyage of the Damned relatively blind, ... -
The Hive reads THE HOBBIT (READALONG)
OK today (January 4th) being Tolkien’s Birthday has given me the impetus to get cracking on a project we’ve been chucking around in the Hive Team ... -
BLOOD RED by Gabriela Ponce translated by Sarah Booker (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wallow on the bathroom tiles, a red dot in this white universe. My solitude is writhing in a pain I never understood. I think about ... -
THREE EIGHT ONE by Aliya Whiteley (BOOK REVIEW)
“Are these the kinds of decisions people from the Age of Riches had to make all the time? To abandon what’s best for the world and ... -
SUNBRINGER by Hannah Kaner (BOOK REVIEW)
This review will contain spoilers for Godkiller “’I am a knight, so you must know what that means. I have killed gods of vengeance and ... -
THE DRAGONS OF DEEPWOOD FEN by Bradley P. Beaulieu (BOOK REVIEW)
“I’m a man who stands between two worlds—one foot in the empire, the other in the Holt. I’m borne on the currents created by the empire’s ... -
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by V.E.Schwab (BOOK REVIEW)
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she ...









