Alongside it’s very intriguing premise, Crownfall’s story is well paced, tightly plotted, and uses all its character POV’s to deliver an extremely efficient story that offers a glimpse into what feels like a much bigger universe.
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Spooky season is officially upon us! Therefore, I have achieved my final form: October Connor (C. J., if you’d like). As I can’t exactly act like I don’t consume horror year-round anymore, during the month of October I have been looking to watch more Halloween-themed films. While watching WNUF Halloween Special this week, it reminded […]
Review: The Siren’s Cursed Kiss (Everwood Falls #3) by Kat Kinney
Synopsis: EVERWOOD FALLS… a small supernatural community tucked up in the Colorado Rockies where witches, werewolves and vampires can live without fear of discovery, and those with curses they can’t control are sent to keep the existence of magic from being revealed to Mundanes. Green witch Sage Summers is no stranger to curses. The night […]
Review: Crownfall by Michael Vadney
Crownfall is an ambitious debut—and it sticks the landing. A clever standalone with something for everyone.
Review: The Fallen Faithful by R.A. Sandpiper
Synopsis: A naive courtesan is hired by a masked man from the House of Pain, to solve a murder connected to her former lover who was cursed to forget her. After Annie, a devotee of the House of Love, leaves the only life she’s ever known to elope with a mortal, she ends up barred […]
Review: Blightfall (Riftwake #1) by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
Synopsis: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the first book in a new, high-flying trilogy featuring the legendary Skyward Flight as they undertake a deadly intergalactic mission to explore a mysterious alien world. After decades of war against alien oppressors, the humans of the Defiant Defense Force are […]
SPFBO XI FINALIST REVIEW: THE HALLOWS BY H.L. TINSLEY
Team Fanfiaddict is back with another SPFBO XI finalist review, this time for The Hallows by H.L. Tinsley. Let’s see what the judges had to say! Will Swardstrom: The Hallows by H.L. Tinsley is an interesting book with an interesting premise, but for me it kind of took a while to rope me in. The […]
Review: Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen #2) by John Gwynne
Valor doubles down on everything that worked in book one and then some. Gwynne goes darker and more epic, building out a world and mythos for his series that steps out of any lingering shadows cast by its predecessors and fully into its own identity.
Review: One-Fifth Dragon by Shami Stovall
Synopsis: DRAGONS, ASSASSINS, AND NINJAS! They call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold. Their ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me into a weapon. They taught me the art of how to slip […]
Review: Moonfall (The Everlands Trilogy #2) by Ed Crocker
Synopsis: The thrilling sequel to Lightfall, a fantasy epic of revolution set in a world of vampires, werewolves, and sorcerers, for fans of Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire and Cassandra Clare’s Swordcatcher. The revolution is here… but in the Everlands, nothing comes easy. In the last vampire city of First Light, the rebels know […]
Excerpt: A Dance in the Dust: A Prelude to the Last Ballad by Scott Palmer
A Note on the Last Ballad Reading Order: I called this the Last Ballad Series with the idea that I could write an epic fantasy series like a song—a song that echoed across tens of thousands of years, across multiple continents, cultures, religions, families, and people. A song of myth, and legend, heroes, and of […]
Review: Crownfall by Michael Vadney
Synopsis: The gritty underworld and razor-edged found family of Six of Crows collide with the mysterious magic and sweeping intrigue of The City of Brass, all against the vivid industrial backdrop of Arcane in Michael Vadney’s nobledark fantasy debut. Nearly a decade under the empire’s grip has left Burunt a troubled land. Kyndel Heim knows […]