Synopsis Zervana is a space pirate, for she has no other choice. She lives in a galaxy where interstellar travel belongs to the rich. Long ago, GIBB corp. built portals between planets, but the only way through them is by drinking the company’s high-priced elixirs. If Zervana doesn’t raid GIBB shipments and give the means of […]
Interview: Tim Hardie Author of The Brotherhood of the Eagle series
It was a fine spring morning, and all was well in the realm. Treachery, inter-clan political intrigue, bloody violence and dark magic were all strangely subdued while I had the pleasure of interviewing none other than Mr Tim Hardie. Author of the Brotherhood of the Eagle series and his recent, Asian inspired novel, A Quiet […]
Review:The Last Ronin by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
Synopsis Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost. From legendary TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, get ready for the final story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles three decades in the […]
Review: Empire of Silence (Sun Eater series) By Christopher Ruocchio
Synopsis Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started […]
TTRPG Noob guide:
From the top… ok, let’s start with a content warning! Fear not, I’m not about to start revelling in depravity or celebrating the morality crushing choices that some people make, but I am going to start at the basics. The purpose of this guide is to inform and educate. I am very aware that a […]
DB Rook’s Top Reads of 2023
Top reads…top reads, ok let me think about the few books I actually managed to read throughout this year amongst my ever-growing pile of things I needed to do for; A: my day job B: my family C: my physical and mental health D: my own fledgling author journey E: the world as it crumbles […]
Review: Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea #1) by H.M. Long
Synopsis A stormsinger and pirate hunter join forces against a deathless pirate lord in this swashbuckling Jacobean adventure on the high-seas. Mary Firth is a Stormsinger: a woman whose voice can still hurricanes and shatter armadas. Faced with servitude to pirate lord Silvanus Lirr, Mary offers her skills to his arch-rival in exchange for protection […]
Review: The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buelhman
Synopsis Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler […]
Review: However Many Must Die (Blood Scouts #1) By Phil Williams
Synopsis Wild Wish was trained to do one thing: kill. Saved from a lonely backwater existence by a global war, Wish couldn’t believe her luck when she got into the Blood Scouts. Now she gets to share tents with an all-female platoon of night-stalking, giant-slaying, boat-sinking, battle-swaying legends in the making. The problem is, they […]