Synopsis Aram Raythe has the power to challenge the gods. He just doesn’t know it yet.Aram thinks he’s nothing but a misfit from a small fishing village in a dark corner of the world. As far as Aram knows, he has nothing, with hardly a possession to his name other than a desire to make […]
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Review: Darkmage (Rhenwars Saga #1) by ML Spencer
Synopsis Darien Lauchlin has already lost everything. Now the only thing he has left to lose is his soul.The Well of Tears was created to harness the power of the Netherworld to prevent a magical apocalypse. Now Darien Lauchlin is the last surviving mage capable of reversing the destruction the Well unleashed. Darien will be […]
Review: Resident Evil: Requiem
RESIDENT EVIL: REQUIEM is the ninth entry in the main series of Resident Evil, one of the longest-lasting series in video games and the popularizer of the survival horror genre. There’s been dozens of other spin off games but the main series has always been a mixture of both horror as well as action. Sometimes […]
Review: Lost Cargo (Get Lost #2) by Noah Chinn
Synopsis Life ain’t easy for a pilot in the Void. An easy score turns into a whole lot of trouble, and the race is on to unload some very problematic cargo. Captured by pirates in his beat up chimera, Maurice “Moss” Foote is having a bad day, until he gets a lead on the gig […]
Review: Lost Souls (Get Lost #1) by Noah Chinn
Synopsis Sci-Fi Adventure with a sense of humor! A smuggler, a stowaway slave, and a pirate find themselves on a collision course deep in the no-man’s-land of space, tracking a mystery that’s centuries old. Maurice “Moss” Foote is down to his last hundred credits, which he needs to get his old ship back and start […]
Review: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season one
A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is an HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg novellas. I absolutely love these low stakes prequels to the A Song of Ice and Fire universe that take place a century or so before the events of the books. The three-released novellas star Ser Duncan the Tall […]
Review: Undercity: Rebellion by SC Jensen
Synopsis I’m not dead yet, but this isn’t living… They call me the Ghost. I wander the surface of this nameless city, unseen, searching for the sister I lost many years ago. It is a forsaken place, its battle-scarred surface left to burn under a relentless sun.I should have given up. But when I uncover […]
Review: Deep Blue by David Niall Wilson
Synopsis From award-winning author David Niall Wilson, what Publishers Weekly calls : “…an engrossing, poetic novel of spiritual evil…” “”Blue” reminds me of first discovering Anne Rice in my 30s,; the richness, the cellular examination of detail on every level, the flesh of the characters, the music, time… a unique work, a unique writer…” – […]
Review: Dredge
DREDGE is a Lovecraftian fishing game, which is more enjoyable than anything with that description deserves to be. Indeed, there’s a kind of hilarity that it is the second Lovecraftian fishing game I played in 2025. The first was Fallout 76 expansion Gone Fission, which I enjoyed but didn’t have much in the way of […]
Review: War of the God Queen by David Hambling
Synopsis Jessica: a modern woman, thrown back into the bronze age, alone among a strange and violent people. Amir: a nomad warlord, leading a hopeless battle against monstrous invaders, looking for a miracle. To Amir, the beautiful stranger is a sign from heaven. And Jessica, though no warrior, has hidden talents even she does not […]
Review: Eldritch Prisoners edited by David Hambling
ELDRITCH PRISONERS, edited by David Hambling is the sixth anthology in the Books of Cthulhu series. The series takes a pulpier more adventurous take on H.P. Lovecraft’s mythology. Each book focuses on a specific theme and has some of the best new Neo-Mythos authors contribute their short stories or novelettes. This volume has Davd Conyers […]
Review: Mind’s Horizon by Eric Malikyte
Synopsis Humanity’s time is done.The Earth is freezing over and human civilization is gone.For Ira Hartman and the dysfunctional band of survivors that surround her, all that’s left of the old world are ghosts trapped beneath the still-forming ice sheets.When Ira and the survivors discover a secret military research facility housed deep within the San […]