Blurb From cloaks and daggers to mugs and flagons … Hazkul Bern spent years in the shadows, becoming Kelvur’s most prominent assassin. When his notorious guild is torn apart in a war with a wicked sorcerer, he has no choice but to retreat into hiding in the seaside town of Lornash Point. With his life […]
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Cover Reveal: The Sane Vessel (Spite of the First #1) by Creed Parker
Blurb In a nation ruled by mercenaries, power comes at the price of your sanity or humanity, or both. Kalnen is a nation forged with blood and controlled with unstable elemental magic in the form of Vessels; a twisted use of innocent bodies. Ezlos was a soldier, then a hero for just a breath, but […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 178: Prose & Rhythm with Alix E. Harrow (Writing Masterclass)
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson, M.J. Kuhn and Greta Kelly as they delve into a writing masterclass on Prose & Rhythm with award-winning, bestselling author Alix E. Harrow. During the episode, Alix expounds upon prose and rhythm essentials, including what prose and rhythm are, setting expectations with prose style, fine tuning your prose and rhythm, the musicality of prose, beauty and truth in language, the flexibility of prose styles, how prose informs characterization, description and world, the fluidity of authorial voice, how to have FUN with your prose and more.
31 Halloween Reads for Spooky Season
Below you will find a list of 31 Halloween themed books to sink your fangs into each spooky season. From short story collections to novellas and novels, there’s something for everyone to help get them into the holiday spirit. Adult, middle grade, young adult, classics, this list has it all…but with the nature of the […]
Cover Reveal: The Curse of Dragon Tail Island by Jonathan Nevair
Jonathan Nevair’s Wind Tide series and Agent Renault Spy-Fi Adventures are some of my favorite books. I have loved delving into Nevair’s science-fiction works; navigating the politics, action, and falling for the “far, far away” characters he has created. So when I learned that Jonathan was writing a swash-buckling, fantasy novel, I was more than […]
Review: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Synopsis: Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters―but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory―failed soldier, struggling scholar―falls in love with the […]
Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Synopsis When 73-year-old matriarch Magnolia Chen sweeps into the family Chinese New Year celebration with a woman on her arm that she introduces as her girlfriend, shockwaves ripple through the room. But her 16-year-old granddaughter Izzy, black sheep of the clan, is far more intrigued than angry. Later that evening Magnolia begins to tell Izzy […]
Review: Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang
Synopsis Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by […]
Review: Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World by Mark Waddell
Summary: WARNING! Under no circumstances must employees strike a deal with unauthorized personnel on Dark Enterprises property. Such behavior could result in death…or the end of the world. Colin is a low-level employee at Dark Enterprises, a Hell-like multinational corporation solving the world’s most difficult problems in deeply questionable ways. After years of toiling away […]
Review: Let Sleeping Gods Lie by Ben Schenkman
Synopsis: If jumping off a building to save a raccoon doesn’t kill Corbin Pierce then his next altruistic impulses just might. Pierce, ex-Ivy League community college adjunct and environmental activist, has his hands full keeping the local spirit-creatures out of the hands of poachers while teaching his students about history they shouldn’t repeat. As if […]
Review: Uncharmed (Rewitched #2) by Lucy Jane Wood
I made no secret of the fact that I loved Rewitched, and I’m thrilled to say that I also loved Uncharmed. But, can Lucy Jane Wood please stop releasing books that are so terrifyingly in tune with my life? In Rewitched Belle was about to turn 30 and was dreading the birthday as much as I was, and in Rewitched it’s all about learning that being imperfect is okay, and you don’t always have to be in control. So, yes, Lucy Jane Wood, get out of my life (but don’t because the books always come at the perfect time).
Review: Daughter of No Worlds (The War of Lost Hearts #1) by Carissa Broadbent
My first thought when I heard about Daughter of No Worlds was ‘I’ve really enjoyed Carissa Broadbent’s other books, but the politics in this might make it not work for me.’ I am very happy to say that I was wrong. In fact, I totally forgot all of my reservations and I sped through all 500 pages in under a week during one of the busiest times I’ve had in a while. Usually politics in a book mean I get bored/lost/confused, however Daughter of No Worlds, while having court politics, kept me hooked and I did actually know what was going on!