Synopsis In a cyberpunk future, an alarming disease strikes, dissolving the bones of those with cybernetic enhancements. Petya, a refugee, sells himself to a company experimenting with a potential cure and instead finds himself with a strange new implant… and a vampiric hunger for teeth. Petya only wanted a short trial with easy money, and […]
Reviews
Review: Something Followed Us Home edited by Cynthia Pelayo
Synopsis: Something followed us home. It crawled in with our prayers, slipped into our beds, watched from mirrors, waited in water, and learned our names. Gathering chilling work from some of today’s most acclaimed Latiné voices, this horror anthology moves through haunted households, brutal landscapes, sacred spaces turned dangerous, and bodies claimed by forces both […]
Review: Threshing Day (The Empyrean, #3.5) by Rebecca Yarros
Synopsis: THIRTEEN UNFORGETTABLE STORIES.ONE LEGENDARY DAY. Welcome to Threshing Day, the brutal, high-stakes trial where would-be riders at Basgiath War College fight to earn the bond of a dragon or die trying. Amid ruthless competition and dragon fire, these thirteen cadets must survive a battlefield where desperate rivals will do anything to gain an advantage […]
Review: Anamnesis (The Savant Uprising #2) by Lyndsie Clark
Synopsis: Teenager Sam Lilly just wants to rescue his best friend, Grant—kidnapped during a T-SEC raid that tore apart the warehouse they called home. So, when a sharp-dressed stranger promises answers in exchange for a “simple” data heist, Sam doesn’t hesitate. He should have. The job drops him straight into the hands of The Company, […]
Review: The Iron Crown by L.L. MacRae (Dragon Spirits #1)
Synopsis Fenn’s first and only memory is finding himself in the middle of a forest, face to face with a dragon spirit mocking him, all knowledge gone apart from his own name. Lost and confused, his only hope for answers is Calidra—a woman living on the edge of the world with her partner. Forced to […]
Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM
There Is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM takes a premise that is wildly original and crafts a mind bending, genre pushing story which pulls the reader in for a ride unlike any other.
Review: This Is How The World Ends by Disco Barrington
Synopsis “Through apocalypse, dystopia, and renewal, the throughline of empathy, love, and human determination in Barrington’s THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS keeps the story profoundly human. An impressive debut that leaves the reader with a bittersweet, hard-won hope that feels especially resonant in our uncertain political moment.” – Seth Haddon, author of VOLATILE MEMORY […]
Review: Victorious (Villains, #3) by V.E. Schwab
Synopsis: The triumphant conclusion to the Villains trilogy from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. The ExtraOrdinary of Merit City, a secret group of individuals gifted with a power connected to their manner of near-death experience, have been keeping a […]
Review: The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson
Synopsis Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson invites you to Abernathy House. A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death. At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy […]
Review: Tales from the Territory: A Cosy Collection of Legends & Lattes Short Stories by Travis Baldree
Synopsis: From Sunday Times bestseller Travis Baldree, Tales from the Territory is a beautiful collection of cosy fantasy tales, set in the much-loved world of Legends & Lattes. There are many tales yet untold . . . ‘GOBLINS & GREATCOATS’: Chaos goblin Zyll is involved in a case of mistaken identity, where she solves a murder at an inn whilst simultaneously […]
SPFBO XI Finalist Review: The Honorable Con
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, […]
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.