The Somebody People by Bob Proehl
Last year I reviewed The Nobody People, a superhero origin story that took a savvy fresh look at the superhero genre. I liked it…
Year: 2021
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2021: A NEST OF NIGHTMARES by Lisa Tuttle
“The wasp is making sure that her sting has [the spider] completely under control before going on. She’ll dig a hole and pull the…
A SPINDLE SPLINTERED by Alix E. Harrow (Fractured Fables #1)
Alix Harrow is a writer whose work has shown the power of story, I’ve read both of her novels (The Ten Thousand Doors of…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2021: The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings by Dan Jones
Here’s a little oddity that may be just right for Halloween. As this story is written by a historian, it is perhaps fitting that…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2021: THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones
…[T]here was a sea of green eyes staring back at him from right there, where there was just supposed to be frozen grass and…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2021: SLEWFOOT by BROM
Possessing both the skills to tell a story through the written word and through potent imagery is a rare feat. (Gerald) BROM is one…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2021: When Things Get Dark, Edited by Ellen Datlow
Recognition of Shirley Jackson’s influence on horror and literature has perhaps never been higher than at the moment. The recent movie Shirley (2020), with…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2021: IN A GLASS DARKLY by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
As it’s October 1st, we begin our traditional countdown to Halloween here! And we’re beginning with a classic. Randy Money has had a look…
THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET by Catriona Ward
Some books arrive with a great deal of preamble…pre-publication buzz from industry giants like Stephen King and Paul Tremblay, massive promotion, and being considered…
LATER by Stephen King
For the last few years, Stephen King, in addition to writing his now usual yearly blockbuster (this year’s is Billy Summers, out now) has…
EMPIRE of the VAMPIRE by Jay Kristoff
Grand Scale novels are popular in Science Fiction and Fantasy – you’ve got your Space Operas and Epic Fantasies. Horror, on the other hand,…
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
Sometimes the title of a book can tell you all you need to know for it to grab you. Think of Dickens’ Great Expectations,…
The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie
And so to the third book in this Trilogy, what is being labelled as “The Final” Age of Madness novel. (And please note, as…
PAPER & BLOOD by Kevin Hearne (Ink & Sigil #2)
The milieu Kevin Hearne introduced in The Iron Druid Saga continues to expand with Paper & Blood, the second installment of Ink & Sigil…
The Pariah by Anthony Ryan
The story of an outcast who manages to raise himself above his humble beginnings to something greater is a Fantasy staple. Anthony’s latest treads…
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
Once upon a time I was an eight-year-old obsessed with Egyptology. It was the time of the Tutankhamun exhibition in London in 1972, and…
THE DESERT PRINCE by Peter V. Brett (The Nightfall Saga #1)
Peter Brett is one of the best-selling Fantasy writers of the last decade. His Demon Cycle is an enthralling, entertaining saga that shows readers…
THE MALEFICENT SEVEN by Cameron Johnston
Evil was about to win and take over the land. But the leader of the Evil Army, the demonologist Black Herran, had a change…
THE JUSTICE IN REVENGE by Ryan Van Loan (The Fall of the Gods #2)
Picking up not long after The Sin in Steel, Ryan Van Loan’s The Justice in Revenge, the second book in his Fall of the…
The Hand of the Sun King by JT Greathouse
With the current revival of Fantasy books with an Asian or Oriental tone, this novel is rather appropriate. It also helps that it is…
