TL;DR Review: Perfect for fans of the early Wheel of Time books and a more cerebral, hard magic system. Great worldbuilding, interesting characters. Synopsis: Shadow cripples all realms, magical and physical. A single chosen one isn’t enough. Callan failed to save his sister from the plagued swamps blighting the land. When darkness threatens his home, […]
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GIVEAWAYS: Down Below Beyond by T. A. Bruno
Blurb Levort Aatra is a prospector on the planet Tayoxe. While scavenging the wastes of the abandoned world, he discovers a mysterious starship and stakes his claim on it. Little does he know, he just put a big target on his back. Down Below Beyond is a sprawling sci-fi fantasy adventure filled with aliens, planets, and […]
Review: The Elements of Time (The Winds of Change #1) by Sam Paisley
Synopsis Destiny, personal responsibility, what the future holds – common concerns for anyone graduating high school. But usually not because of a cosmic war between timeless beings where you’re the central player. As the end of school quickly approaches, and Cooper Bailey watches his perfect world slip away, his only concern is savouring every last […]
Beware of Chicken 2 (Beware of Chicken) by CasualFarmer
Synopsis A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about… farming???? Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body. And you know what? Things ain’t actually all that bad. […]
COVER REVEAL + EXCERPT: Defender (Darkblade #7) by Andy Peloquin
Blurb The Hunter has worn countless faces, played countless roles.Conqueror. Savior. Assassin. Protector. He is all of them and more… But one performance for which he is truly ill-suited is that of father.Particularly to a daughter who seeks to use him only to her own ends, willing to manipulate, deceive, and murder to gain access to […]
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 […]
Australian & New Zealand Author Showcase No 14 – Jeremy Szal
Today I have the honour of hosting the fourteenth author showcase focusing on the awesome talent originating from Australia and New Zealand. The idea came to me whilst seeing so many of the book community gathering at recent conventions in the US and UK. And once my FOMO had subsided, I got to thinking about […]
Review: Traitor of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles #2) by Ed McDonald
Synopsis Traitor of Redwinter is the second in Ed McDonald’s Redwinter Chronicles, full of shady politics, militant monks, ancient powers… and a young woman navigating a world in which no one is quite what they seem. The power of the Sixth Gate grows stronger within Raine each day―to control it, she needs lessons no living […]
The Harvest of Moondew Valley: Well of Shadows (The Harvest of Moondew Valley) by D. R. R. Hatch
Synopsis Alden Bramblethorn’s job at The Whispering Willow is wearing on him. But it’s not just that. His family is broken, and he has no living relatives. Lonely, he seeks answers from the GoldenRoot Ancestral Repository. It doesn’t take long for him to strike gold. There, he finds an ancient letter with a deed to […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 79: Jim Butcher talks The Olympian Affair, The Dresden Files, Mentors, Cats & More
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with bestselling author Jim Butcher about his new novel The Olympian Affair, The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera series, teaching his son James J. Butcher everything he knows, a dream Dresden anime, Lois Bujold and The Vorkosigan Saga, writing cats and animal POVs, cherished mentors, paying it forward, blending genres, weightlifting and much more.
COVER REVEAL: City in the Dragon’s Eye (Dragon Reich #1) by Jordan Loyal Short
Title: City in the Dragon’s EyeSeries: Dragon Reich, Book 1Author: Jordan Loyal ShortRelease Date: 02/12/2024Cover Artist: Trif Book Design | Website Blurb Viktor’s magic is turning him into a dragon. And it’s not pretty. To save his friends from a deadly ambush, Viktor drew too deeply on the power of the Dragon Well, and now […]
Review: Kraken Rider Z by David Estes and Dyrk Ashton
TL;DR Review A wonderfully fresh, upbeat, and enjoyable entrant into the world of progression fantasy. Compelling yet easy reading from start to finish. Synopsis If there’s one thing dragons fear, it’s a kraken. Even lowly hull-scrubber Zee Tarrow knows that. Like everyone on the island kingdom of Tosh, he grew up frightened by fables and […]