Synopsis BLOOD IN THE SAND. BLOOD ACROSS THE STARS. Hiding from her tortured past, Nelsa endures deadly duels by day and drinks herself numb at night. While she rots away in the saloons on the outskirts of Arkoma City, the ruthless Salazano tightens his stranglehold on the desert planet and the stars beyond. After an […]
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Review: Threshold – Stories from Cradle by Will Wight
Synopsis: Cradle isn’t over yet. Lindon’s journey may have ended, but there are still more tales to tell. The stories in this collection will show you the world after Cradle, those left behind, and even some legends from long ago. If you’ve read the main series but you still want more, these are for you. Witness […]
Review: When The Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
Synopsis: One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy’s father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy’s increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of […]
Review: A Palace Near The Wind (Book #1 of the Natural Engines Duology) by Ai Jiang
Synopsis The Feng people have bark faces, carved limbs, arms of braided branches, and hair of needle threads. Bound by duty and tradition, Liu Lufeng, the eldest princess of the Feng royalty, is the next bride to the human king. The negotiation of bridewealth is the only way to stop the expansion of the humans […]
Review: At The Bottom of The Garden by Camilla Bruce
Synopsis: Clara Woods is a killer—and perfectly fine with it, too. So what if she takes a couple of lives to make her own a little bit better? At the bottom of her garden is a flower bed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace—or so she’s always thought. Then the girls arrive. […]
COVER RELAUNCH: Platinum Tinted Darkness (The Legacy of Boulom #1) by Timothy Wolff
Blurb When the gods send their harbingers, the Guardians are all who stand in the way. But who protects these defenders when the gods seek to sway them? Crystal mage Serenna Morgan struggles to maintain the neutrality of the Guardian Pact when a neighboring kingdom invades her own. The God of Death offers his divine […]
Review: Silence is Silver (Shadowbinders #0.5) by Andrew Watson
Synopsis: The Urdahl believe pain is inevitable. But if one can lean into that suffering they can achieve anything. Beneath the desert sands, Bas has spent his entire life training to become a fully-fledged Urdahl. And now his time has come to prove his worth. First, he must drink from the Seeing Bowl to clear […]
Book Review: With His Father’s Sword (The Empire of the Beast) by T.M. Carruthers
TL;DR Review: The Count of Monte Cristo meets Kingdom of Heaven by way of Gladiator. Synopsis: I am Harald Fairhair, illegitimate son of a dead land. I am Harald Lionheart, breaker of chains and champion of the arena. I am Harald the bastard, and I have destroyed the world. Hear Harald’s own words as he […]
Review: Monstress, Volume 9: The Possessed (Monstress) by Marjorie Liu and Illustrated by Sana Takeda
Synopsis Maika, Kippa, and Ren return to their own world to discover a full year has passed in their absence—and Zinn is back in the clutches of Maika’s father, the megalomaniacal Lord Doctor. From the relative safety of the pirate-controlled Spice Islands, Maika and her friends must regroup, recover, and find a way stop the […]
Review: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Synopsis The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set […]
Cover Reveal: Triggernometry Finals (Book 3 of the Triggernometry Series) by Stark Holborn
Stark Holborn is queen of the weird west. She wrapped up the Factus Sequence last year, authored the entire Nunslinger series, and has been entertaining us with her wildly imaginative Triggernometry books where she pits history’s greatest mathematicians against a brutal western setting. Now, she’s concluding her Triggernometry trilogy with the third book — Triggernometry […]
Preview: Wasteland (A Dex Legacy Story) by Emily Inkpen
Wasteland is a new story in the award-winning audio drama, The Dex Legacy by Emily Inkpen. Scroll down for all the information you need, including a teaser trailer and everywhere you can listen to the podcast. Wasteland premieres on Friday 24th January. Blurb 1500 years after Ancestors from Earth colonised planet SP714, countries have divided, […]