Today, Team Fanfiaddict is back with another finalist review. We’ll be taking on The Honorable Con by Michele C. Shaw. Let’s see what the judges had to say! Michael Vadney: What impressed me most about The Honorable Con is how well Shaw understands people. This is a story about levers, about what makes people move, […]
Reviews
Review: The Escher Man by T.R. Napper
The Escher Man is a violent story, though beneath that bloody exterior is a thoughtful narrative that is deeply concerned with technology’s impact on memory.
Review: Those Left Behind by N. C. Scrimgeour
Synopsis A dying planet. A desperate mission. A crew facing impossible odds. Humanity’s last hope lies with them… Time is running out for the people of New Pallas. Nobody knows that better than Alvera Renata, a tenacious captain determined to scout past the stars with nothing but a handpicked crew and a promise: to find […]
Review: The Bookshop Book by Mark Lawrence
Synopsis: A fantasy adventure through cozy, cluttered bookshops and into the pages of classic literature itself, set in the world of international bestselling author Mark Lawrence’s groundbreaking The Library Trilogy. Bookshops have always been places where worlds collide. Places where ideas make war, where cultures meet and mingle. For Frederick “Red” Archer, a young man […]
Review: Blood Drunk by Ben Shepherd
Dead good Synopsis Freddie Burns just wants ten pints, football violence, and the chance to take over his uncle’s fading gangland empire. But when a routine hit goes tits up, Freddie discovers a new kind of organised crime – one where vampires are real and monsters hide in plain sight. Good thing Freddie has a […]
Review: The Odyllic Stone by Alex Scheuermann
Synopsis When Aster Rutherford, the postmaster’s son and his childhood friend, Zinnia Hollyhock deliver a letter to the Pelware Mines, they are attacked by a birdlike monster that turns men to stone. Even worse, Buckwheat Village is plagued by an illness that’s incapacitating villagers, including Aster’s own father. A chance encounter with Kara Reeves, the […]
Secret Loot Box
Congratulations! You’ve found a secret Cello’s Gate Treasure Hunt loot box! Appropriately called “NeilTheLootBoxGuy”! Woohoo! All you have to do is click the chest and you’re off to the races! Unless it’s a mimic.. Then you’re dead! Good luck! This loot box is brought to you by NeilTheBookGuy. Happy hunting!
Review: The Fires of December (Hoid’s Travails #3) by Brandon Sanderson
Synopsis: In the next Cosmere standalone novel, Hoid has an epic tale to share: In a forgotten land sustained by colorful rivers of demon blood, a young woman named December learns a devastating plague is on its way. But who will believe her? Against impossible odds, she sets sail up the River Violet to warn […]
And Then There is the Bard by D.W. Walters, Illustrated by J L Pilgrim
Synopsis: A party of heroes, who are far from zeroes. Quests to slay a dragon, so join the bandwagon. But with such high stakes, do they have what it takes? Review: And Then There Is The Bard is a silly children’s story about a band of fantasy heroes hoping for a grand adventure. The illustrations […]
Review: Eight Tastes of Treachery (What We Eat #2) by Ryan Rose
Paprick is back and his legend is growing – with writing as sharp as the Chef’s knives, plot as big and expansive as a Drakephon and world-building as intricate as the steps needed to create a new greater recipe, this was one hell of a sequel that tore my heart out and has refused to give it back.
Review: The Swamp (Tales of Temerity #2) by Palmer Pickering
The Swamp is the second instalment in Palmer Pickering’s Tales of Temerity series. It’s a Lit-RPG-lite with a jewel-based magic system. Super simple, super fun. Don’t believe me? Peep Dark Town, the first in the series, here. Book Review: Dark Town by Palmer Pickering | FanFiAddict Anyway, let’s plunge into The Swamp! Synopsis A Seer, […]
Review: Traps and Specters by Philip Fracassi
Synopsis: A new collection of short stories and novellas from Bram Stoker Award finalist Philip Fracassi, featuring an introduction by NYT bestselling author Matt Dinniman. From the mind of Stoker and British Fantasy award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes fourteen stories of the macabre that will frighten, disturb, and ensnare readers in a dark web of […]