Never the Roses is a romantasy which is light on the overarching plot, and instead spends it’s time building up the relationship. The fantasy world is there, but as Oneira has shut herself away from it you only see glimpses and pieces of the world. This really worked for me. It felt like an easy-going read because of this and I think that really worked for this specific romantasy.
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TBRCon2025 Highlight: Space Horror: Monsters in Zero Gravity (with S.A. Barnes, Ness Brown Emily Hughes & More)
Every Friday, we’re highlighting a panel from the TBRCon2025 all-virtual SF/F/H convention, looking back on the incredible variety of discussions that we had the honor of hosting.
This week, join moderator/author/editor Emily Hughes and authors S.A. Barnes, Ness Brown, Halo Scot, Chris Hooley and CJ Aggett for a TBRCon2025 panel on “Space Horror: Monsters in Zero Gravity”.
Review: The Scoungers (Vermin of the old Empire) by Thomas J Devens
Synopsis The lords have fallen.It was the war to end all wars.Violence had plagued the Fractured Kingdoms since the fall of the Old Empire. But as the generals and the lords died in the Valley of Torglen, the folk looked beyond their allegiances. Beyond their nations. The bedraggled masses that survived the battle flocked to […]
Review: Battle Mage (The Souls of Wrath #1) by Peter A. Flannery
Synopsis: The world is falling to the burning shadow of the Possessed and only the power of a battle mage can save it. But the ancient bond between battle mage and dragon is failing. Of those that answer a summoning too many are black. Black dragons are the enemy of humankind. Black dragons are mad. […]
Review: Good Boy by Neil McRobert
Synopsis: After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small Northern town, a woman spies from her window a mysterious man digging a grave in the exact spot of the disappearance. However, when she confronts him, the man’s true purpose is far more chilling than she could have imagined and the history of the […]
Excerpt: Sentient (Ice Plague Wars #2) by Michael Nayak
Blurb Symbiote took readers to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, across ten days of terror, as the crew fought to contain a mysterious and evolving biological threat. In Book Two of the Ice Plague Wars series, Sentient, the survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their […]
Review: Old Too Soon by Brian Bowyer
Synopsis: When Kadence’s father dies, she begins hearing voices in her head. Soon thereafter, she discovers alcohol, which silences the voices, and Kadence becomes an alcoholic. To finance her addiction, she turns to a life of crime. Then she meets Arianne, the girl of her dreams. After she gets locked up, Arianne breaks up with […]
Review: A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper
Synopsis: A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you’ll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you […]
Cover Reveal: Black Cloaks (Titan Hoppers #4) by Rob J. Hayes
Blurb The Enemies of your enemies… Iro has left the home fleet to join up with the Black Cloaks, eager for the power and the answers they’ve promised him. But danger lurks in every corner deep in the TITAN core, and some revelations are more than he can bear. What if he was never a […]
Cold Silver For Souls by Tori Tecken
Book Review: Cold Silver for Souls is a fantasy western told from the perspective of Hunter, a bounty hunter who also happens to be a necromancer. We follow Hunter as she treks across The Territories wrangling up marks that she has been hired to bring in dead or alive. She is accompanied by a reanimated […]
Review: Jester by Tim Carter
Jester by Tim Carter is a rollicking good time. A underdog story that you can’t help but fall in love with. And most importantly, a story that surprises you. Which shouldn’t have surprised me. Carter’s first novella Majordomo seemed like it was going to be a funny dnd-based fantasy and then it absolutely massacred my […]
Review: The Last Gasp Of Midnight by Thomas Howard Riley
Synopsis A duel to the death in three parts. A conversation of sorts between the last two men left alive after a brutal battle. One soldier from each side. Both want to survive. Neither can walk away. In a story of battle, everything is a weapon. Even memories. Review I won a copy of this […]