Lawrence does a truly incredible job with controlling the flow of information and details the reader is privy to, masterfully winding and weaving his plot and its various timelines, in such a manner that although the twists and reveals impact you fully, they do so in a way that makes perfect sense.
Fantasy
Review: Seeds of War by João F. Silva [The Smokesmiths #1]
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.
Review: Seeds of War (The Smokesmiths #1) by João F. Silva
Synopsis GIMLORE is a single mother and war veteran turned crime boss set on protecting her family and her town. ORBERESIS is a petty thief pretending to be God to protect a terrible secret. REDNOW is the world’s most feared mercenary, but his best days are behind him and there’s one job left to do. In a world […]
Review: The Sword Defiant (Lands of the Firstborn #1)
‘A gloriously gritty adventure through Hanrahan’s astonishing imagination’ Peter McLean, author of Priest of BonesTHE SWORD CARES NOT WHO IT CUTS Many years ago, Sir Aelfric and his nine companions saved the world, seizing the Dark Lord’s cursed weapons, along with his dread city of Necrad. That was the easy part. Now, when Aelfric – keeper of […]
Review: Mystic Reborn by Jeffrey Speight [Archives of Evelium Book #2]
Speight lays down a summoned celestial sword to challenge all my other TBR books to come close to how much I enjoyed reading Mystic Reborn.
Traitor’s Blade (The Greatcoats #1) by Sebastien de Castell
Synopsis The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced […]
Review: The Shadow Gate (Dragon Spirits #2) by L.L. MacRae
Synopsis Opening the shadow gate is the only way Fenn’s memories can be restored—and with them, his life and family. It could also destroy the world. Guided by dragon spirit Hassen and manipulated by the Myr, Fenn fights the corruption spreading through Tassar—and himself—in an attempt to find his family. Separated from his allies and […]
Fantasy Book Review: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy #1) by Mark Lawrence
The start of a new trilogy spanning time and multiverses, set in the backdrop of mysterious, manipulative and menacing Library. A intriguing and entrancing tale and page turner.
Review: The Captain (The Last Horizon, #1) by Will Wight
A fascinating Science fantasy book set in a futuristic society which blends the sci-fi elements of interplanetary travel, starships, hyper/sub space travel etc but also has traditional magic elements of Archmages, elemental magic, wands, mantles etc.
Review: Montego (Glass Immortals #0.5) by Brian McClellan
Synopsis Twelve year-old Montego al’Bou is an orphan, a provincial peasant boy left alone by the recent death of his grandmother. Possessing nothing more than his grandmother’s cudgel, he strikes out to the capital where the influential Grappo have offered to bring him up in the luxury of an Ossan guild-family. He finds his welcome […]
Team Review: The Given Day by Dennis Lehane ft. Krystle Matar & C.M. Caplan
Synopsis: Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times best-selling author Dennis Lehane’s long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. The Given Day tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a […]
