Synopsis: A plot is brewing between the adventure and romance aisles. When visiting Twig’s Traveling Tomes, customers will get the exact book they need, even if it isn’t the one they want. As for the proprietor and renowned Book Witch, Louella Twig lives her life sequestered with her stories, just as she likes it. When […]
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The Last Breath of Peace by Lewis J. Sutcliffe
Synopsis In the deep quiet of the Whispering Wood, Sorin has made a life out of being forgotten. That silence shatters when a dying Elven messenger collapses at his door, carrying a sealed warning meant for a king who may already be too late to listen. Hunted by fanatics, shadowed by ancient powers, and burdened […]
Review: Storytellers by Bjørn Larssen
Synopsis If you don’t tell your story, they will.Iceland, 1920. Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith, dwells with his animals, darkness, and moonshine. The last thing he wants is an injured lodger, but his money may change Gunnar’s life. So might the stranger’s story – by ending it. That is, unless an unwanted marriage, God’s messengers’ sudden […]
Review: Crash into You (Lights Out #3) by Simone Soltani
Crash into You had me kicking my feet and giggling the whole way through. I’ve never read a F1 romance before, and I can see why it’s so popular. This is basically a great romance story and set it in the glitz and glamour of F1 locations, and add a dash of real-life ‘the F1 life isn’t all perfect’ and you’ve got a gripping story.
Cover Reveal: The City of Grief and Pain (Mothers of Sorrow #3) by Alex Robins
Blurb There is no victory without sacrifice. The Mother’s plan has failed. Her army of greylings has been destroyed. But the liberation of Keselgraad has come at a terrible price: Brachyura and Matellas Thane have been swallowed by a swirling portal, transported into the never-ending expanse of emptiness that exists between worlds.Aldin Pine, however, refuses […]
Review: The Heroes We Never Were by Thomas Howard Riley
Synopsis: War is the only thing Everan Caid was ever good at, and he yearns to return to his old ways. Long ago stripped of his knighthood and all but exiled from the castle of Oldmeadow, he is drunker by dawn than most men can manage all day. Peace, with the lack of killing that […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 219: Writing Assassins & Contract Killers with James Islington (Writing Masterclass)
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson & Greta Kelly as they delve into a writing masterclass on Writing Assassins & Contract Killers with bestselling author James Islington. During the episode, James pinpoints the target, discussing why assassin media is so popular, real vs. fictional depictions of assassins/contract killers, why assassin characters work so well in SFF, differences between assassins and contract killers, the fundamentals of motives/targets/clients/methods, centering a plot around an assassination, tonal consistency, the psychology (and backstory) of an assassin, morality and reader empathy, assassin training montages, researching assassins (i.e. ruining your search history) and more.
Review: Massif by Garth Nix
Synopsis: From New York Times bestseller and master of speculative fiction Garth Nix comes his first foray into adult science fiction with a brilliant and poignant stand-alone story of sentient starships, galactic warfare, and the bonds a crew forms far, far from Earth. Caught me a mountain Rode it to the stars It’s business as […]
Review: Disenchanted (Rewitched, #3) by Lucy Jane Wood
Synopsis: Sage Hemlock has no interest in embracing her witchy side. Magic has betrayed her before, bringing nothing but heartache, and she will not let something so foolish happen again. Instead, Sage has thrown herself into her work and studies, running the local museum and largely preferring the company of her library and her cat […]
Review: Untwined (The Imbued Duology #2) by Helyna L. Clove
Synopsis With the help of the ancient magic awakened inside her, Calla led Vesper Forn’s uprising to conquer Kanmane Palace and free the mages of the Kamphua Dominion. Except the victory is short-lived: Calla’s power is still not entirely hers, their people are falling one by one, poisoned by Vesper’s faulty imbuing ritual, and the […]
Cover Reveal: Suffer Their Going by Iseult Murphy
Blurb A dead husband. A ruined home. A mind in pieces. A young widow clinging to the remains of her shattered life. 1900, Ireland. A country poised for change. Eleanor Browne. The sole survivor of the fire that took her husband, her home, and almost her mind. After a stint in a sanatorium, the only […]
Tempest (The Lyrian Sea) by Victoria Aveyard
Synopsis: MAY THE SEA ALWAYS SING FOR YOUCat Rose knows what it is to live in two worlds, in two times. Before – as Lady Catrine Rose of the Meridian Empire, chained to a loathsome lord with a dwindling fortune. And after – as the Widow Rose, queen of a pirate tavern on the Lyrian […]