Tag: fantasy
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Noir Tarots in Amber – Part 2: THE GUNS OF AVALON
This is part of a series examining noir tropes and tarot archetypes in the first set of Chronicles of Amber Books. As a dabbling neophyte in ... -
SHARK HEART: A LOVE STORY by Emily Habeck (BOOK REVIEW)
“Are we all just actors, performing some unbound art form for God, the audience of space? I wish I could have seen then what I know ... -
On Worldbuilding – GUEST POST by Kritika H. Rao (THE SURVIVING SKY)
Today, we’re thrilled to welcome Kritika H. Rao back to the Hive! To celebrate the publication of her debut novel The Surviving Sky, Kritika joined us for ... -
SON OF A LICHE by J.Zachary Pike (BOOK REVIEW)
A doubly disgraced Dwarven hero. A band of accident-prone adventurers. Giving redemption a second shot may have been a grave mistake… Still bruised and heartbroken from ... -
ON THE NATURE OF MAGIC by Marian Womack (BOOK REVIEW)
“Helena’s investigations had made her realise how so often women’s safety, the difference between being sent to the madhouse or not, depended on how men interpreted ... -
MOTHTOWN by Caroline Hardaker (BOOK REVIEW)
“Melt everything down to a great white blank. Eat anything that oozes out. No one knows how it all goes in Mothtown, and no one ever ... -
THE HUNTERS by David Wragg (BOOK REVIEW)
‘You are mad, brother, the plains or the desert will claim us all, coinless, meaningless, bleached bones in sand. And what will we have achieved then? ... -
THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN by Mark Lawrence (BOOK REVIEW)
“Some silences stretch, the tension builds and builds again until the suddenness of the inevitable snap. That’s the quiet which lies between people. Other silences fall ... -
FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros (BOOK REVIEW)
“I force my breathing to calm, my heart rate to slow from its gallop. If I panic, I’ll die. If I slip, I’ll die. If I… ... -
GREYSKIN by James Kinsley (BOOK REVIEW)
Kinsley’s first novella, Playtime’s Over, was published by Propolis in 2021. Playtime’s Over is the story of Will, a young man on the brink of taking his own life, who is ...