PERILOUS TIMES by Thomas D Lee
If you have been reading genre fiction for a while, you may notice certain patterns and trends appear and reappear. There was the phase,…
Category: Book Reviews
SALTBLOOD by TC Parker
Take a little bit of Philip K. Dick, add a little bit of very dark Scottish myth and folklore and you have T.C. Parker’s…
SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh
Emily Tesh is the winner of the World Fantasy Award Best Novella for Silver in the Wood in 2020, an Astounding Award winner and…
For the First Time, Again by Sylvain Neuvel
With this third book in the Take Them to the Stars series, which began with A History of What Comes Next (reviewed HERE) and…
EMPEROR of RUIN by Django Wexler (Burningblade & Silvereye #3)
Emperor of Ruin is the finale to Django Wexler’s Burningblade & Silvereye trilogy, bringing the siblings Maya and Gyre separated at a young age…
THE FOXGLOVE KING by Hannah Whitten (The Nightshade Crown #1)
Death Magic, necromancy…often seen as dark and potentially evil methods of magic, but that’s not quite the case in Hannah Whitten’s Nightshade Crown saga,…
INFINITY GATE by M. R. Carey
Some of you may know that I’ve been a fan of ‘M’s for a while. From Felix Castor (back in 2007) to The Girl…
Downfall by Louise Carey
Forget binge-watching. Louise Carey’s Inscape series is the binge-read series you need in your life. Like all memorable reads, Louise Carey makes…
The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards
Gems lurk in dusty corners, and the recent revival of classic crime fiction has seen books scaling the bestseller charts after being out of…
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
It should really go without saying that for a voracious book reader (like myself!) books about books, or libraries, or bibliophiles should be an…
RELUCTANT IMMORTALS by Gwendolyn Kiste
There are forgotten characters in all of literature, or maybe minor characters who had impact on the story in which they appear, but are…
The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
“Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you’re dead.” I picked this up on hearing of Chris’s death last week.…
The Tyranny of Faith by Richard Swan
In which we return to the land of The Empire of the Wolf. After the events in Galen’s Vale (as given in the first…
THE SAPPHIRE ALTAR by David Dalglish (Vagrant Gods #2)
The island nation of Thanet is still in turmoil, the Everlorn Empire is still holding on to power while the rebellion is fractured. The…
THE SPITE HOUSE by Johnny Compton
Johnny Compton’s The Spite House is a novel about loss, death, small town and family history. It is dark and keeps its secrets hidden…
Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell
I think that Ramsey Campbell is one of our genre authors who should be better known. Although you might not recognise the name, he’s…
THE FINAL STRIFE by Saara El-Arifi (The Ending Fire Trilogy #1)
Epic Fantasy is a genre of imagination, a genre of metaphor, a genre that acts a doorway to new worlds that may have a…
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
One of my favourite old SF authors, Sir Arthur C Clarke, once said “How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth,” when it is clearly…
EPISODE 13 by Craig DiLouie
Found Media (including Found Footage films) has been a growing subset of fiction, particularly the horror genre for quite a while. It has found…
City Of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer
This YA’s comparison to Gotham intrigued me, but after reading it, comparing City of Nightmares to the origin stories of the DC universe doesn’t…
