It was hard to narrow down my top reads of the year. For anyone who has followed me on social media or through my blog, you know I read a lot. This year’s total was 70 books, which I think is a record for me. And it was tough to pick only 10. I’m a […]
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TBRCon2023 Highlight: Neurodiversity Through Character (Panel)
Every week, we are highlighting a panel from TBRCon2023, looking back on the amazing variety of panels that we had the honor of hosting.
This week, join moderator/author ML Spencer and authors Ada Palmer, Ada Hoffmann, Justin T. Call and Connor M. Caplan for a TBRCon2023 author panel on “Neurodiversity Through Character.”
Review: The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood by H. G. Parry
Synopsis: From the author of The Magician’s Daughter comes a captivating historical fantasy where dreams come to life and Arthurian legends are reborn. Wales, 1941. As the second world war ravages the globe and bombs fall from the sky, people all over the world begin to dream of King Arthur. The dreams spread like a fantastical plague, […]
Review: The Ashen Viper by Joseph John Lee
Synopsis: Were we not meant to know the truth? It is by the hands of loresmen that heroes and villains are risen from history’s foundations, today’s stories that became yesterday’s histories that became the legends of yore. And from those legends emerge truths…of a sort. The truths that best serve a story when the facts […]
Review: Reapers by Anthony Ryan
As the sharp and sassy man of culture that he is, Ryan presents the reader with the perfect allegory for our far too interesting times in the not so sneaky form of a “zombie” novel.
Review: Reflections of Lilje Damselfly (Folk with a Disregard for Convention #1) by Natalie Kelda
Synopsis: When a mysterious ailment refuses to leave water nymph Lilje, her father sends her to a human spa retreat. Lilje quickly discovers she has a lot to learn about human nature and culture when she accidentally scandalises the Edwardian spa guests by showing up undressed. In hope of relieving her chronic pain and fatigue, […]
Review: The Changeling Chronicles: Books 1-3 by Emma L. Adams
Hello again! That’s right, similarly to Andy Peloquin’s Queen of Thieves and Gerard Way’s The Umbrella Academy, I am back again with another review combining a box set I’ve finished! Adams’ The Changeling Chronicles 1-3 is a masterclass in how to combine the real world with magic and fantasy. A true triumph in melding faerie […]
Review: The Ice (The Bound And The Broken # 3.5) by Ryan Cahill.
Synopsis: In Epheria, you are the predators. Here, you are the prey. Almost four hundred years have passed since the fall of The Order. Four hundred years since the empire rose. Four hundred years since the last dragon egg hatched. In the icy wasteland of Valacia, Aeson Virandr searches for the one thing that could […]
Review: Butcher’s Folly (The Wrecking Squad #2) by Nick Snape
Butcher’s Folly balances diplomacy and action, while expanding the universe. It’s a worthy sequel to one of my favorite reads of 2026 (so far).
Review: Copper Skin, Oaken Lungs (Copper & Ash 1) by Adam Bassett
Synopsis For a thousand years, The Old Town has stood as humanity’s last bastion against the maalkonis, malignant black mists that reduced the rest of the world to ash. They are kept at bay by rusty machines on the town’s walls. In order to survive, the dwindling population depends on one another. Since a young […]
Review: The Bartender Between Worlds (Greatest in the Multiverse #1) by Herman Steuernagel
Synopsis: Emma is a witch hunter. At least, she was until she discovered she has magic. Now she needs to disappear. With dreams of becoming a bartender, she leaves behind everything she’s ever known in search of a quiet bar in a forgotten corner of the kingdom. All she wants now is a simpler life. […]
The Envoys of War (The Envoys of Chaos #1) by Dave Lawson
Synopsis Don’t kill the messengers. Gen has the perfect job: traveling the realm, drinking wine, and hitting things with her sword. Her latest assignment should be a simple one. Escort Cordyn, an envoy and her closest friend, through enemy territory to deliver vital military intelligence. Except the mission is fake. The King suspects Cordyn is […]