THE MARS HOUSE by Natasha Pulley
January Stirling is a ballet dancer, one of the principal dancers of London’s Royal Ballet living in a future (three hundred years or so)…
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DRAGON MAGE by M.L. Spencer (Rivenworld #1)
I’ve been an Epic Fantasy reader for decades, cutting my proverbial teeth on Margaret Weis’s DragonLance series shortly after they were released, then Lord…
SANCTUARY OF THE SHADOW by Aurora Ascher
I’m not really sure why, but I do like a circus story. Perhaps it’s that feeling created by reading Ray Bradbury Weird Tales many…
MURDER ROAD by Simone St James
It’s July 1995. April and Eddie Carter are newly-weds on their way to a stay at the Five Pines Resort, a cheap motel on…
THE BUTCHER of the FOREST by Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed’s The Butcher of the Forest is a dark fairy tale that wastes no time in getting the ball rolling. Veris Thorn is…
A FLAME IN THE NORTH by Lilith Saintcrow (Black Land’s Bane #1)
Lilith Saintcrow is one of the more prolific fantasy writers of the early 21st Century, her oeuvre ranges across a wide swath of speculative…
THE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD by Gwendolyn Kiste
A small neighborhood mysteriously disappears behind a strange veil, confounding local and national media. Twenty years later, the disappeared town is something of a…
A HAUNTING IN THE ARCTIC by C.J. Cooke
A doomed ship in the waters around Iceland that has experienced tragedy across several crews is at the center A Haunting in the Arctic…
FATHOMFOLK by Eliza Chan
At its simplest, Fathomfolk is a fantasy tale of underwater folk. More than that, though, Fathomfolk is a story about differences – differences between…
THE ART OF IRON MAN 2
Imagine that we’re back to 2010. The huge success of the movie Iron Man in 2008, with over $500 million made means that Marvel…
GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner (Book One of The Fallen Gods Trilogy)
When a novel begins with the death of an entire family at the hands of a god, that sets the tone for a novel.…
AN EDUCATION IN MALICE by S T Gibson
From the publisher: “Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid…
THE TAINTED CUP by Robert Jackson Bennett (Ana and Din Mysteries #1)
Robert Jackson Bennett has been blurring the genre lines since his first novels published a little over a decade ago (Mr. Shivers, 2010; The…
THE TRIALS OF EMPIRE by Richard Swan
Following events in The Tyranny of Faith, Konrad Vonvalt is now a disgraced and powerless ex-Justice. With the Imperialist Magistratum disbanded, and by the…
MACHINE VENDETTA by Alastair Reynolds
In the third Prefect Dreyfus novel, (the first, The Prefect, was reviewed here, and the second, Elysium Fire, reviewed here), we return to the…
KNOCK KNOCK, OPEN WIDE by Neil Sharpson
Irish Folklore and family secrets form the core of Neil Sharpson’s Knock Knock, Open Wide. Sharpson’s novel starts in 1979 on a dark rainy…
THE DARKNESS BEFORE THEM by Matthew Ward (The Soulfire Saga #1)
Matthew Ward’s The Darkness Before Them kicks off The Soulfire Saga and tells the tale of Kat, a young woman who turns to thievery…
THE CROW FOLK by Mark Stay
Fantasy and Horror readers are usually pretty broad-minded folk. It’s a given that sometimes you need to suspend your sense of disbelief whilst enjoying…
THE DRAGONS of DEEPWOOD FEN by Bradley P. Beaulieu (The Book of the Holt, Part One)
Bradley P. Beaulieu is growing into a modern Epic Fantasy master. He’s completed the requisite fantasy trilogy (The Lays of Anuskaya) and created a…
DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP by Satoshi Yagisawa
Books about books and bookshops are pretty much a winner for me. I am actually a little wary though – what if such a…
