Book Reviews
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Larcout by K. A. Krantz
For those who aren’t aware, Larcout was one of ten novels in the final round of Mark Lawrence’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) 2016. I’m not sure what ... -
Books & Booze: The Lions of Al-Rassan
Warning: this edition of Books & Booze contains Stage 9 Book Adoration Let’s just get this out of the way, and then maybe we can level ... -
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
As a born-and-bred northerner, I’ll admit I had doubts about how much I’d enjoy a book based entirely around the life and culture of London . ... -
Night of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont
Night of Knives is the first of Ian C. Esslemont’s Malazan Empire books (intended to be read alongside Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen). Erikson and Esslemont co-created ... -
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice won about a million SFF awards in 2014. While I never read enough of the other contenders’ work to judge whether this one truly ... -
Off Leash by Daniel Potter
Before we begin, here’s a teeny bit of context: Off Leash was one of Fantasy-Faction’s semi-finalists in the 2016 Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. I was part of FF’s SPFBO team ... -
The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark
OVERVIEW: The Court of Broken Knives is the stunning debut to Anna Smith Spark’s Empires of Dust series. One of two Anna’s to be released in June ... -
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 ...
