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Review: The Ministry of Time (#1) by Kaliane Bradley

June 12, 2024 by Mada Leave a Comment

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK “This summer’s hottest debut.” —Cosmopolitan • “Witty, sexy escapist fiction [that] packs a substantial punch…It’s a smart, gripping work that’s also a feast for the senses…Fresh and thrilling.” —Los Angeles Times • “Electric…I loved every second.” —Emily Henry “Utterly winning…Imagine if The Time Traveler’s Wife […]

Filed Under: Alt History, Historical, Reviews, Science Fiction, Time Travel Tagged With: Book Review, Kaliane Bradley, Science Fiction, The Ministry of Time

Review: Daughter of Calamity by Rosalie M. Lin

June 11, 2024 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis In Jazz-Age Shanghai, Jingwen carefully balances a double life of glamour and grit, dancing as cabaret showgirl while also running errands for the city’s most powerful gang.  When a series of cabaret dancers are attacked and their stolen faces start appearing on wealthy foreign socialites, Jingwen realises that to help save her closest rivals […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Historical, Reviews Tagged With: Fantasy, Tordotcom

Review: His Ragged Company (Testimonies of Elias Faust #1) by Rance D. Denton

May 31, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) 1 Comment

Synopsis A pissed-off warlock with a taste for revenge. An army of sand-golems with fistfuls of magic. A wishing well with a mind of its own. No wonder Blackpeak, Texas never got its spot on the map. Town marshal Elias Faust thinks that he can make any problem go away if he throws enough lead […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Historical, Reviews, Weird West, Western Tagged With: #Althistory, #ATestimonyofEliasFaust, #HisRaggedCompany, #RanceDDenton, #TestimoniesofEliasFaust

Review: A Heart Full of Malice (The Fractured Kingdom #2) by Tony Debajo

May 26, 2024 by A.J. Calvin Leave a Comment

Synopsis: There are no true victors in war. Even those that prevail cannot escape the burden of guilt for those who have fallen, and all those who witness the ugliness in the hearts of men are forever tainted. Ile-Ife has fallen and with it, the greatest ruler to have ever sat on the throne. Now, […]

Filed Under: Black Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Historical, Low Fantasy, Military Fantasy, Reviews

Review: Babel by R.F. Kuang

May 3, 2024 by Adam Bassett Leave a Comment

Babel is a brilliant historical fiction novel, and a deeply uncomfortable read. Kuang writes it beautifully—whether she’s discussing lemon cakes or opium dens.

Filed Under: Fantasy, Historical, Low Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Books, Fantasy

Book Review: Bridge of Kings by Logan D. Irons

April 26, 2024 by Andy Peloquin Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Two Warriors. Two Kings. One bridge. Some men hold secrets that are far darker than war. An old oath obligates Ulf Bodvarsson to join King Harald Hardrada’s army of Norsemen, seeking to assert his claim to the English crown. Yet near Stamford Bridge, enemies await, seeking to fulfill their own oaths of blood. The […]

Filed Under: Historical Tagged With: Book Review, Books, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fantasy Books, Self Published

Review: Motherland (Eve #0.5) by Mark Jonathan Runte

April 15, 2024 by A.J. Calvin Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Kseniya and Semyon only ever knew loyalty to their country, until the death of a policeman forced them to run, raising their children as refugees and then as English. But their pasts were never far behind them, nor was caution for being what they were. Their safety isn’t the only thing at stake, it’s […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Historical, Reviews, Urban Fantasy

Review: Undead Samurai by Baptiste Pinson Wu

April 12, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Japan, 1625 A new Drum Master has risen, and soon the nation will fall to the curse of Izanagi. Answering the call of his kotsuzumi, dead warriors abandon their peace to once again roam the land of the living, swinging rusty blades and chattering rotten teeth at his behest. Japan’s last hope lies in […]

Filed Under: Action & Adventure, Asian Inspired, Coming of Age, Fantasy, Historical, Horror Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Reviews Tagged With: #BaptistePinsonWu, #Japan, #Japanese, #UndeadSamurai, #zombies

Australian & New Zealand Author Showcase No 25 – Assaph Mehr

April 5, 2024 by Charlie Cavendish Leave a Comment

An idea squeezed into my head in 2023, after seeing so many of the book community gathering at conventions across the US and UK. And once my FOMO subsided, I got to thinking about who might be gathered together if we had similar conventions closer to home.  Pending the master planning required to arrange a […]

Filed Under: Author Chat, Blog Posts, Historical, Interview, Reviews, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Books, Fantasy, Self Published

Review: The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

February 26, 2024 by Paige Leave a Comment

The cover for The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

This is by far the darkest of Arden’s books that I’ve read. Usually my issue with historical fiction/fantasy set in the World Wars is the inevitable romanticisation of the war and what people went through on the front lines. Arden instead shows the darker side, the people who didn’t want to fight, the ends people went to just to be able to survive, and the absolute horrors that those on the front lines faced. I found my heart breaking as I read The Warm Hands of Ghosts and I felt true horror at so much of what Arden shows.

Filed Under: Fantasy, Historical, Reviews Tagged With: Del Rey, Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Review: A Dagger in the Dark (Pillars of Peace #0.5) by Tom Dumbrell

February 4, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Twenty years before the events of The Look of a King, in a world on the cusp of change, a young man dreams of a life far from the one he has known. Is he a captain in the making, or out of his depth? The stakes are high, and only time will tell […]

Filed Under: Adventure Fantasy, Fantasy, Historical, Nautical fantasy, Novella, Reviews, Self Published Tagged With: #ADaggerintheDark, #PillarsofPeace, #Prequel, #TomDumbrell

Review: Undead Samurai by Baptiste Pinson Wu

February 1, 2024 by Charlie Cavendish 1 Comment

Rating – 9 /10 Synopsis ” His hand moved before his brain could. His left hand pulled on the saya, while the right drove the blade forward.” Japan, 1625 A new Drum Master has risen, and soon the nation will fall to the curse of Izanagi. Answering the call of his kotsuzumi, dead warriors abandon […]

Filed Under: Book Spotlight, Fantasy, Historical, Horror Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: #Horror, Book Review, Fantasy

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