Tag: Book Reviews
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THE MIDNIGHT CIRCUS by Jane Yolen (BOOK REVIEW)
“Once, on the far side of yesterday, there lived a girl who wanted to know the future.” ‘The Weaver of Tomorrow’ Jane Yolen is one of ... -
British Weird – Selected Short Fiction, 1893-1937 – Edited by James Machin (BOOK REVIEW)
“Has it ever been your fortune, courteous reader [Mr Hampole inquired] to rise in the earliest dawning of a summer day, ere yet the radiant beams ... -
THE IKESSAR FALCON by K. S. Villoso (BOOK REVIEW)
This is a year of hotly-anticipated sequels for me (hello Hollow Empire and Call of the Bone Ships!), and since I first read the self-pub version ... -
CRUISING THE COSMERE: The Way of Kings (Book Review)
The Hive are starting a new feature, which isn’t actually all that new as it was originally introduced on Fantasy Faction, but myself and possibly ... -
THE SEVENTH PERFECTION by Daniel Polansky (Book Review)
The Seventh Perfection is the second Polansky novella I’ve read, after the wonderfully high (or is it low?) concept The Builders, a revenge Western starring anthropomorphic ... -
Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 – Edited by Melissa Edmundson (BOOK REVIEW)
“I knew all the time that for a man who had gone to bed in a commonplace hall bedroom in a very commonplace little town such ... -
THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE by Joe Abercrombie (BOOK REVIEW)
‘What some called madness he recognised as diamond-edged clarity. The time for arguments in the teahouse, for pretty words and fancy theories, was over. The grasping ... -
Knight’s Shadow by Sebastian De Castell — Book Review
Series: Greatcoats (#2) Published by: Jo Fletcher Books. Genre: Epic fantasy, grimdark, low magic(-ish?). Length: 20 hrs and 6 minutes, or 606 pages on hardcover. Format: ... -
NOTES FROM SMALL PLANETS by Nate Crowley (BOOK REVIEW)
Sci-fi and fantasy love to be epic. There’s nothing like an existential threat to the world or galaxy whose resolution inevitably comes down to a handful ... -
A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE by Arkady Martine (BOOK REVIEW)
High-grade sci-fi performs a tricky balancing act: inventing a world that is different to ours in important respects but at the same time providing a narrative ...
