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Grimdark

Review: The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing Trilogy #2) by R. Scott Bakker

September 16, 2023 by Alan Behan Leave a Comment

Synopsis “Book Two of The Prince of Nothing” finds the Holy War continuing its inexorable march southward. But the suspicion begins to dawn that the real threat comes not from the infidel but from within…Steering souls through the subtleties of word and expression, Kellhus strives to extend his dominion over the Men of the Tusk. […]

Filed Under: Dark Fantasy, Fantasy Horror, Grimdark, Post-Apocalyptic, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy

Review: The Darkness That Comes Before ( The Prince of Nothing Trilogy #1) by R. Scott Bakker

September 15, 2023 by Alan Behan Leave a Comment

Synopsis The first book in R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals. It’s a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold […]

Filed Under: Dark Fantasy, Fantasy Horror, Grimdark, Historical, Post-Apocalyptic, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy

Review: A War To End All (Manifest Delusions #3) by Michael R. Fletcher & Clayton W. Snyder

September 8, 2023 by Alan Behan Leave a Comment

Synopsis A war, then. A war of our own. A war for perfection and cleanliness and order.A war to end suffering.A war to end filth and disease.A war to end immorality and injustice.A war to end blasphemy.The last war this world would ever see.A war to end all. Review Holy Geisteskraken’s balls, that was bloody […]

Filed Under: Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Fantasy Horror, Grimdark, Monsters, Reviews, Sword and Sorcery, Zombies Tagged With: Self Published Authors

Review: At Eternity’s Gates (Ruin of Empire #4) by David Green

September 8, 2023 by Alan Behan Leave a Comment

Synopsis THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE EMPIRE OF RUIN SERIES As a long-planned endgame begins, the future of Haltveldt balances on the edge of the slimmest of blades. Calene Alpenwood rallies her comrades against the spreading darkness, but faces overwhelming threats from both sides of enemy lines. The entity known as the Corruption, the living […]

Filed Under: Adventure Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Grimdark, Reviews, Sword and Sorcery Tagged With: Self Published

Review: Callus & Crow – The Wayward World Chronicles Volume 1 by DB Rook

September 6, 2023 by Alan Behan Leave a Comment

Synopsis A genre hybrid of western meets grimdark post-apocalyptic fantasy. Can a path of blood lead to redemption? Is redemption enough to amend a wayward world? Morality and reality have shifted from their natural axis. Technology and ideology derive from the remnants of a world long dead and segregated by the monsters that now rule […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Grimdark, Post-Apocalyptic, Reviews, Self Published, Western Tagged With: Fantasy

Review: The Monsters We Feed (#1) by Thomas Howard Riley

May 10, 2023 by Mada Leave a Comment

Think of something that truly threatens the aspect of your soul. An absence. Something that should make you feel and care for, but something that pulls at the tug of your moral conscience. Why are humans capable of committing the most evil and heinous crimes? Because without empathy, and apathy combined, then there is no shame. No regret. The world of Kolcha, the very city where Jathan lives proves that there is an undercurrent of shame and turmoil and that not everything is as it seems. You can’t take anything for granted in this city.

Filed Under: Action Fantasy, Fantasy, Grimdark, Reviews, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Cyberpunk, Dark Fantasy, Grimdark Fantasy, Self Pub, Self Published, Thomas Howard Riley, Thriller, Urban

Book Tour & Review: The Monsters We Feed by Thomas Howard Riley

May 8, 2023 by Neil Williams Leave a Comment

Synopsis The morning before he found the dead body, Jathan Algevin thought he had his whole life just the way he wanted it.   He knows his city inside and out, and doesn’t bother carrying a sword, trusting his wits and his fists well enough to get by, hustling extra coin by ratting out loathsome magi […]

Filed Under: Book Tour, Dark Fantasy, Detective Noir Fantasy, Erotic Fantasy, Fantasy, Grimdark, Reviews, Self Published, Thriller, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Book Review, Dark, Detective, detective noir, Fantasy, Grimdark, lust, Magic, Mystery, Noir, noir fantasy, Self Published, sex, The Monsters We Feed, Thomas Howard Riley, Thriller

Review: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1)

April 30, 2023 by Mada Leave a Comment

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities. A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never even noticed them. That’s about to change. Their stories spiral around each […]

Filed Under: Adventure Fantasy, Coming of Age, Cozy Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Grimdark, Heist, Historical, Magical Realism, Mythology, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: HarperVoyager, Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn't Burn

Review: Seeds of War by João F. Silva [The Smokesmiths #1]

April 30, 2023 by Tom Bookbeard Leave a Comment

Exactly the right amount of grit and smoke-fuelled fantasy that makes Seeds of Way feel like the start of a chest-burningly solid series.

Filed Under: Grimdark, Reviews, Self Published Tagged With: João Silva, Self Published

The Fangs of War (The Blood and Steel Saga #1) by E.J. Doble

March 3, 2023 by DustJacketFullofMonsters Leave a Comment

Synopsis After the brutal execution of Provenci’s King by the roving forces of Tarraz, a new military government vaults into power with the nefarious Alvarez at the helm. Hell-bent on bloodshed and the glory of an imperial past, he amasses the largest army seen in a generation and plunges the two nations into a bloody […]

Filed Under: Dark Fantasy, Grimdark, Military Fantasy, Reviews

Book Review: A Shade of Madness (The Ashes of Avarin, Book 2) by Thiago Abdalla

January 25, 2023 by Neil Williams Leave a Comment

Synopsis Avarin tumbles into madness through the shattered ruin of a centuries-old peace. As griffin riders clash against airships above and hordes of madmen below, Lynn finds herself surrounded by enemies. Ones that will test the limits of her faith. To defeat them, she must risk everything… including her sanity. Adrian has lost the Legion, […]

Filed Under: Action Fantasy, Book Tour, Dark Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Grimdark, Reviews, Self Published, Sword and Sorcery Tagged With: Book Review, Books, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fantasy Books, Grimdark, Magic, Self Published, Thiago

Review: The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology #1) by Hadeer Elsbai

January 19, 2023 by Mada Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS: From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, about two young women–Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing–who find they have far […]

Filed Under: Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Grimdark, Reviews, Romantic Fantasy Tagged With: Alamaxa, Daughters, Egyptian fantasy, Elsbai, Hadeer, Izdihar, Orbit Books

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