Synopsis We choose our own gods here. Karys Eska is a Deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with an eldritch being―three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving―who has granted her the ability to communicate with the newly departed. She pays the rent by using her abilities to investigate suspicious deaths. When a new case goes sideways and connects her […]
Reviews
Review: Sentient (Ice Plague Wars 2) by Michael Nayak
Synopsis Extinction Horizon meets Contagion in this sequel to 2025’s sci-fi thriller Symbiote, where the biological threat has escaped the South Pole and is now wreaking havoc upon Antarctica. The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their lives… Months after the events of Symbiote, sunrise has come to the […]
SPFBO XI Review: No More Levels by Benjamin Barreth
Synopsis: Life sucks when you’re a potato farmer. That’s why Rin can’t wait to turn sixteen and conquer the nearest beginner dungeon. Only then can he acquire a powerful class in the Game of the Gods and begin the earnest grind to leveling up. With enough monster kills, he might even become someone truly strong, […]
Review: Lost Souls by Noah Chinn
Synopsis Sci-Fi Adventure with a sense of humor! A smuggler, a stowaway slave, and a pirate find themselves on a collision course deep in the no-man’s-land of space, tracking a mystery that’s centuries old. Maurice “Moss” Foote is down to his last hundred credits, which he needs to get his old ship back and start […]
SPFBO XI Review: Grave Covenant by Tobias Youngblood
Synopsis: Ridley faces hell when his fiancee disappears, leaving only a cryptic note. On a quest to get her back, his fate becomes intertwined with an insectile shapeshifter and an enigmatic, knife-wielding young girl with an agenda of her own. If Ridley is to have a prayer at saving his fiancée, he will need the […]
Review: The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
Should I begin from the ambitious and chaotic theological sangria that Sullivan enriches his plot with in such a way that for all intents and purposes should not work and yet it somehow does gloriously?
Review: The Brides by Charlotte Cross
Synopsis: 1884. When Mafalda journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving aunt, her secret love, Lucy, hurries from London to comfort her, with chaperone and lady’s maid in tow. But lady’s maid Alice, blessed and cursed with the Sight, is tormented by terrifying visions. When chaperone Eliza falls prey to a disturbing wasting illness, […]
Review: The Blood Stones (Legends of the Bruhai #1) by Tori Tecken
Synopsis His name is not worthy. A traitor is executed, his name ripped away from history. Now the kingdom stands on the brink of a succession war that could bring the country to its knees. Forces stalk the darkness, moving pawns into place in a deadly game. Gehrin and his brothers were not meant to […]
Review: Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts #3) by Carissa Broadbent
Synopsis: In the heartbreaking finale to the War of Lost Hearts trilogy, a tale of romance, magic, vengeance and redemption comes to a close. Perfect for fans of Carissa Broadbent’s Crowns of Nyaxia series. Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do for love? In the wake of a crushing defeat, Tisaanah and Maxantarius have […]
Review: Enemy of My Enemy (Marvel Crime #2) by Alex Segura
Synopsis: Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Alex Segura (Secret Identity) continues the Marvel Crime series of thriller books for adults with the all-new legal noir story of the Punisher on trial for the murder or the Kingpin—with Matt Murdock as his defense attorney. When the call comes in that the Kingpin and a police […]
Review: Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake
Synopsis: Where there’s a will, there’s a war. From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, magical realism meets Succession in Gifted & Talented. This is the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities and the crushing weight […]
Review: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season one
A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is an HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg novellas. I absolutely love these low stakes prequels to the A Song of Ice and Fire universe that take place a century or so before the events of the books. The three-released novellas star Ser Duncan the Tall […]