Synopsis Their brother is dead but nothing will stop the remaining Blood Brothers from risking it all to honor Subaru’s last request and secure his place in Heaven. Everything from dangerous bandits to powerful spirits will try to stop them from completing their mission. Review Time changes many things, but some things never changes as […]
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Review: Countess by Suzan Palumbo
Countess re-imagines The Count of Monte Cristo as a queer anti-colonial sci-fi novella.
Review: Dark Bloom by Molly Macabre
Synopsis: When a disease runs rampant, turning people into cannibalistic horrors, society comes to a halt. Kate manages to escape the sadistic captivity she has endured and collides with Nick, a Marine haunted by the scars of war. They join forces to navigate a treacherous landscape, battling the undead and hostile survivors. But what happens […]
Review: Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov
Synopsis A science fantasy noir tale from the Nebula-nominated author of “Tower of Mud and Straw.” Refusing the queen’s order to gas a crowd of protesters, Minister Shea Ashcroft is banished to the border to oversee the construction of the biggest defensive tower in history. However, the use of advanced technology taken from refugees makes […]
Review: The Devil Walks In Blood (Nick Holleran, Private Investigator #1 & 2) by David Green
Synopsis: Hell is real. We’re all living it. Nick Holleran learned that truth the hard way the day he took three bullets to the chest and bled out in an alleyway. Only death didn’t stick, and it’s been five long years working among the ghosts and monsters, demons and fallen angels, hoping that next time […]
Review: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Synopsis: They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever […]
Review: Thrill Switch by Tim Hawken
Synopsis Detective Ada Byron is pumped to be assigned her first murder case–until she sees the crime scene. Someone has been killed exactly the same way as her father was seven years earlier. But, impossibly, he died using VR and the programmer responsible is still in prison. To see if this is a copycat or […]
Bender’s Best LitRPG reads of 2024
Bender’s best LitRPG reads of 2024
Review: The Fall of Cadia by Robert Rath
The Fall of Cadia is a must read for all Warhammer 40,000 fans, a book I think should be read by sci-fi enthusiasts in general, and it’s a book that has skyrocketed to becoming one of my favourite 40K books I’ve ever read!
Review: Jingle Hel by T.P. Theyson
Synopsis Long ago a dark elf entered the underworld to hold audience with Hel, the goddess of the dead. He offered her a proposition to make him King, one that she refused. Angered by this, the elf gathered an army formed out of greed of those who wished to overthrow the goddess and take what […]
Cover Reveal: The Diplomacy of the Knife (Four of Mercies #2) by C. M. Caplan
Hello again dear reader or listener! Tis a brand new year and guess what? I have brand new goodies. As a treat! As always, it is a pleasure helping our resident crackhead Golden Retriever energy levels co-blogger and Indie author, Connor M. Caplan, reveal his latest book cover. Rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn’t it?
Ganesh’s (Pippin Took) top reads of 2024
This was an interesting year in terms of reading for me. I read more than last year but I also had more disappointments than before- five 1 star reads in fact. Reflecting on it, I am just so happy at all the books that did indeed work for me. In fact, I even have an […]