Book Reviews
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THE MALEFICENT SEVEN By Cameron Johnston (BOOK REVIEW)
Note: This review includes mild spoilers for the prologue and first few chapters of The Maleficent Seven. A ruthless necromancer trapping souls to forge the ultimate ... -
THE GOBLIN EMPEROR by Katherine Addison (BOOK REVIEW)
“The lantern light mocked him, a taunting reminder of the light of the world. He shut his eyes so that he would not have to watch ... -
SPELLSLINGER by Sebastien De Castell (BOOK REVIEW)
Spellslinger is a YA fantasy with a (gasp) male protagonist! Kellen, our main character, is a fairly ordinary teenage boy, whose magic is subpar, and not ... -
AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS by Rivers Solomon (BOOK REVIEW)
“That’s what ghosts really are, Aint Melusine had said, the past refusing to be forgot. She’d been helping Aster scrub down X deck with ammonia and ... -
TEMERAIRE by Naomi Novik (BOOK REVIEW)
The plot to Naomi Novik’s debut is essentially that, following the capture of a French frigate Novik’s hero Captain Laurence finds himself in sudden possession of ... -
WILD SEED by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“She shook her head. She knew now how the slaves had felt as they lay chained on the bench, the slaver’s hot iron burning into their ... -
A TERRIBLE FALL OF ANGELS by Laurell K. Hamilton (BOOK REVIEW)
A new series by Laurell K Hamilton, featuring a male protagonist. Enter, Zaniel Havelock (Havoc), a police Detective, veteran, and former student at the cult – ... -
THE WINTER DUKE by Claire Eliza Bartlett (BOOK REVIEW)
When sixteen-year-old Ekata wakes up to find that her entire backstabbing royal family has been cursed into unconsciousness, she’s forced into the role of Grand Duke ... -
THE BLOOD OF ANGELS by Johanna Sinisalo: 2011, translated by Lola Rogers 2014 (BOOK REVIEW)
“Bees can sense electrical charges in the air and feel magnetic fields. It’s pretty obvious that if there are such things as portals, doors, thin places ... -
THE LAST GRADUATE by Naomi Novik (BOOK REVIEW)
This book is the sequel to A Deadly Education, which was flat-out amazing if you like slightly dark and broody sarcastic protagonists and unique world building. ...
