Book Reviews
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THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez (BOOK REVIEW)
If you’re looking for a story in the same vein as Princess Mononoke but with giggling, psychic tortoises, horrifically cruel antagonists, and a uniquely developed queer ... -
IN THE SHADOW OF THEIR DYING by Michael R Fletcher and Anna Smith-Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
The third best assassin. A second rate mercenary crew. One terrifying demon. As Sharaam crumbles under siege, a mercenary crew hires an assassin to kill the ... -
AN EDUCATION IN MALICE by S. T. Gibson (BOOK REVIEW)
Carmilla and I grew even more entangled, like flowers who, denied sufficient sunlight, entwine their leaves around each other and grow up strangled with love. An ... -
THE LAST SHIELD by Cameron Johnston (BOOK REVIEW)
“How much fight can one broken old woman have left in her?” Briar, Commander of the Shields is about to show you… Sunweald Palace, home to ... -
WOMB CITY by Tlotlo Tsamaase (BOOK REVIEW)
“In our city, it is unwise to trust reality. I have been betrayed by reality, betrayed by my subconscious, shipwrecked from reality. Now every thought must ... -
THE SILVERBLOOD PROMISE by James Logan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Sometimes you owed it to yourself to do what was necessary, not what was easy.” When a duel ends badly for Lukan Gardova he goes ... -
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, ...
