Hemlock & Silver is a great retelling, unique in its approach, with stellar characters and a fun adventure narrative at its core. Anja was one of my favourite characters that I’ve been on a journey with this year!
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Review: The Penitent by Robyn Abbott
Synopsis: From #1 bestselling dark fantasy author Robyn Abbott comes The Penitent, a gritty standalone in the unflinching Forgotten Fragments series. Perfect for fans of Richard Swan and John Gwynne, this gothic tale picks up where most epic fantasies conclude: the end of a long-fought war… The Usurper is dead. As are all five of his […]
Little Beauty (an Eve Novella) by Mark Jonathan Runte
Synopsis: Cherbourg, Normandy – 1159 Shy Jehanne always lived at the mercy of her sisters’ spite and bitterness, preferring a life with the saints in her father’s library. Cherbourg was home and for her, it was the smaller pleasures of watching the ships in the harbor, searching for her father’s vessels. She might have continued […]
Review: Dot Slash Magic by Liz Shipton
Synopsis: What if you wrote a magic computer program? What if that magic computer program started summoning monsters? When twenty-something coder Seven Jones goes back to school at a community college in San Diego, the last thing she wants is to join some stupid club. And the last thing she expects is to walk into […]
Review: Dragonfired (The Dark Profit Saga #3) by J. Zachary Pike
Synopsis The monarch wants him dead. A dragon’s torching the realm. Is his heroic gig about to be a critical catastrophe? Gorm Ingerson knows the king is a fink. With the land’s insidious ruler hell-bent on his destruction, the axe-wielding Dwarf berserker is desperate to beat him to the punch. But when he discovers the […]
Review: The Palace of Illusions by Rowenna Miller
Synopsis The Palace of Illusions brings readers to a Paris breathless with excitement at the dawn of the twentieth century, where for a select few there is a second, secret Paris where the magic of the City of Light is very real in this enchanting and atmospheric fantasy from the author of The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill. In the […]
Review: The Captive by Kit Burgoyne
Synopsis: Underground revolutionary group, The Nail, and their newest member, Luke have kidnapped 23-year-old heiress Adeline Woolsaw, whose wealthy parents run the Woolsaw Group, a vast outsourcing company. They run everything from prisons and hospitals to military bases – quietly suffocating the country with the help of powerful friends in government. The Nail’s plan: to […]
Review: The Culling of Redwitch by Taylor Johnston
Synopsis This spine-chilling tale follows a plague doctor with unique skills as he investigates disappearances in a dreamlike English village in the fall of 1361. Not knowing who to trust, he must rely on his sword, wits, and knowledge of magic and medicine to fight off men and monsters as he attempts to unravel this […]
Review: For The Road by Stark Holborn
Synopsis In the desert is a railroad track made from iron and bone, and on the track is a station where the signal is broken and the train never comes… Lost, wounded and alone, Jesse Bartos wanders the wilderness with no memory of how he came to be there. He only knows that he is […]
Review: Welcome to Cemetery (The Cemetery Collection Book 1) by C.J. Daley
Synopsis Stephen King has Castle Rock. Josh Malerman has Goblin. E. Reyes has Devil’s Hill. Now C. J. Daley welcomes you to Cemetery. A strange town with a strange name, Cemetery, NY is filled with crime and secrets. When a car accident one fateful night leads to a search for two missing bodies, detectives Abby […]
The Inside Story of the British Bureau of the Arcane: The Dark Elf Dynasty File (Book 1) by Phil Parker
Synopsis: The British Bureau for the Arcane has kept people safe for centuries from the arcane species that seek to harm human beings. Their range extends to Commonwealth nations that were part of the British Empire. A once-proud part of the British Secret Service, their success in controlling the arcane races has been their downfall. These […]
Review: ShadowBane by Cal Logan
Synopsis: One womb, one soul, two fates. One will rise. One will fall. Shura and Jin are the last of a divine bloodline, operating at the bloodiest fringes of society where they wield might and magic against the demons they are sworn to destroy. For Shura, it’s the only way to restore honor to her […]