Synopsis A bookworm, a brothel madam, a gangster, an aristocrat, a widow and a war hero walk into an inn – though it turns out there’s nothing funny about what happens next. For humanity’s ancient enemy the Serafin are rumoured to have returned, and the old man who assembled such an unlikely band believes these […]
Adventure Fantasy
Review: Mark of the Warrior (Breathmarked #2) by Shannon Lee and Fonda Lee
Synopsis: In the explosive finale to the instant New York Times bestseller Breath of the Dragon, a young warrior fights to reunite his family and the realm. Two brothers. Two nations. One destiny. Exiled as a traitor after the Guardian’s Tournament, Li Jun has vowed to retrieve the stolen Scroll of Heaven and to honor […]
Review: Other Worlds Than These (The Talisman Trilogy Book 3) by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Synopsis “An astonishingly good novel…Fans of the earlier Talisman novels will absolutely love this one, and because King is a wizard at providing backstory, new readers can thoroughly enjoy it.” —Booklist (starred review) “Constant Readers Rejoice!” (The Baltimore Sun). Jack Sawyer, a beloved and enduring King protagonist, returns in the final book in the Talisman Trilogy, […]
Review: He Who Ate the Wild by G.J. Terral
He Who Ate the Wild is a story of loss and grief, but also of a young warrior trying to understand his place in this Japanese-inspired world.
Review: Cello’s Gate (The Sky Pirates of Imperia #1) by Maurice Africh
Synopsis: With a wit to rival Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl, action on par with Pierce Brown’s Red Rising, and the scope of Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, Cello’s Gate is a rollicking, edge-of-your-seat sci-fi fantasy epic about a ragtag crew of rogues on the hunt for mythic treasure. They did not, however, sign up […]
Review: Symphony of Scars by Corbin Rook
Synopsis Far outside the Sundered Lands, the Holy Republic of Kellanis has learned to channel the Astral Plane through music in a process called “Symphonics.” Music is so sacred that the gravest punishment is to become Scorned – a slave stripped of their ears and tongue so that they can neither enjoy nor create music. […]
Review: Wrath of Olympus (Ships of Britannia Book 1) by E.M. Kkoulla
Synopsis: The Roman Empire never fell. The Gods are real. Ships are alive. In the Province of Britannia, ruled by descendants of King Arthur and on the brink of an industrial revolution, young Maia Abella is on the run. Something unseen has murdered her cruel mistress and she’s being blamed. The streets and factories of […]
Review: Tales From the Territory by Travis Baldree
Synopsis: The world fell in love with the cozy fantasy world of the No.1 New York Times bestselling series that started with Legends & Lattes and continued in Bookshops & Bonedust and Brigands & Breadknives. Now award-winning storyteller Travis Baldree takes us back to the Territory in a heart-warming set of five stories, three making […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]