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,…
Category: Book Reviews
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…
V2 by Robert Harris
I am a bit of a sucker for stories that illustrate the early days of rocketry which led to the so-called Space Race of…
THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS by Chuck Wendig
Chuck Wendig is becoming one of the most prominent voices in modern literature of the dark fantastic. His apocalyptic tome, Wanderers (2019) is a…
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Ever since I read We Sold Our Souls I have found that picking up a Grady Hendrix novel is a treat. There’s something about…
THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP by Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix has a fine-tuned author’s pen combining horrific elements and familiar elements. Whether it is demon possession and 1980s pop culture, the crossroads…
Space Station Down by Ben Bova and Doug Beason
Last year we sadly lost Ben Bova, one of my original go-to authors when I first started reading “grown-up” SF in the ‘70s and…
Seven Deaths of an Empire by G R Matthews
When it comes to Fantasy world-building there’s a number of templates that are perennially popular with authors and those who read the books. Most…
Artifact Space by Miles Cameron
Here’s a writer who you may already know. Miles first made his name as a historical fiction writer as Christian Cameron before publishing fantasy…
Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T A Willberg
One of the recent trends in publishing has been stories that are genre-related, but less genre than the traditional. This makes them popular with…
The Wood Bee Queen by Edward Cox
Edward’s last novels (The Relic Guild trilogy and The Song of the Sycamore, reviewed HERE) have tended to be on the dark and grim…
THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN by Ava Reid
Hungarian myth/folk and history serve as the backdrop for Ava Reid’s immersive debut novel, The Wolf and the Woodsman. Women in Évike’s small village…
