Synopsis Dispatched to Stone Hill to oversee the city’s defenses among nebulous rumors of the Shadow Council’s threat, Owen Greenwaters must rely on the city’s guard and its natural defenses to protect the citizens. But when an army of mythical hooded ones bolstered by a sea serpent and the Soulless arrive in the wake of […]
Military Fantasy
Review: Throne Born (Tempest Rising Prequel) by Max Moyer
Synopsis It is the age of Kings. In the grand city of K’andoria, King Trimidian rules with a fair hand. The great evil sleeps. The Midlands are in a state of tranquility, yet beneath the surface, trouble roils. Fissures have appeared across the kingdom. The savage Crow rebels terrorize villages across Rislaan. The haughty Far-Seer […]
Review: The Sword of Kaigen (A Theonite War Story) by M.L. Wang
Synopsis: On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name […]
Review: Ruins of Smoke: (The Smokesmiths # 0.5) by João F. Silva
Synopsis The Usharian Empire rules the Known World with an iron fist. Imperials protect their world from the tainted hand of the Deceiver, but he is back with an avatar capable of breaking the Empire and grounding humanity into ash. JEHA is a sentinel of the Empire, willing to fight and die for kinship and duty. […]
Review: Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu
FROM THE ASHES OF AN EMPIRE, A HERO WILL RISE… ‘A dazzlingly epic and richly complex world of dragons, magic, and rebellion’ Amélie Wen Zhao, New York Times bestselling author of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night ‘A classic fantasy adventure that reminds me of the novels I loved growing up, but with a flair of cultivation from the novels […]
Review: The Faded Dragon (The Twin Worlds Saga #1) by Cameron Michaels
Synopsis Peace is a frail thing, but the truth is even frailer. Epic fantasy with a twist of mystery . . .The old war between the dragons and elves has long been over, and Deerium has entered a new age. The humans have taken hold and the last fragment of days gone by, known as […]
Review: Rebirth (Divinity’s Twilight Series #1) by Christopher Russell
Synopsis A world consumed by war . . . An ancient evil resurrected . . . A millennia old bargain comes due . . . When two blades clash, the third will fall, and the fate of all will be jeopardized. To save Lozaria, the failures of the past must be atoned for by a […]
Review: Arc-Children of Corruption (The Storm Beneath the World #1) by Michael R Fletcher
Synopsis Cursed by the gods, the insectile ashkaro live on flying islands travelling the eternal River of Days while a hellish firestorm devours the world below. Collected into queendoms, the higher caste brights live in the luxurious windward rain-forest while the servile dulls scrape out a desperate existence in the leeward desert.Conflicts escalate between two […]
Review: From the Ashes (The Heart of Quinaria 0.5) by B. S. H. Garcia
Synopsis The civil war ends now. Igtheos and his rebels have fought tirelessly against a would-be dictator and his army for almost two years. The city they’ve holed up in has become a prison, soon to be a tomb if they cannot arrange a means of escape. When the enemy leader offers an armistice that’s […]
Review: Don’t Bloody the Black Flag (Malitu #0.5) by James Lloyd Dulin
Synopsis The fight for peace is often a war. To end nearly a century of war plaguing Ennea, a clan of nomads plans to bring leaders from the four nations together. They task a young water dancer named Isála to deliver a missive to a northern general, her estranged mother, and convince her to join […]
Review: Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage Trilogy #1) by Brian McClellan
Synopsis The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it. It’s a bloody business overthrowing a king…Field Marshal Tamas’ coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and […]
Book Review: A Path of Blades by R.E.Sanders
Synopsis Ingvar Darelle, a sworn soldier for his country, wants to live a quiet and peaceful life with his family and the woman that he loves. Circumstances, however, seem to stand in the way of his dream. Faced by the schemes of those with power, fractured relationships, and problems with his family’s estate, Ingvar must […]