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Alex Arch

Bill’s 2025 Year End Reading Awards

December 10, 2025 by Bill Adams Leave a Comment

Here we are, nearing the end of 2025 and it has been another banner year of reading! By the time this goes live, I’ll have read 61 books, 60 of them have been indie or self-published books. I love the breadth of genre and imagination of indie books, there are so many gems out there […]

Filed Under: Best of the Year, Self Published Tagged With: 2025, A dragon of the veil, AJ Calvin, Alex Arch, Baptiste Pinson Wu, Best of the Year, Bloodless, Cal Logan, Empire of the Dawn, Fantasy, Fantasy Books, GJ Terral, Jay Kristoff, Justin Greer, Majordomo, Nick Snape, Science Fiction, Self Published, Serpentus, ShadowBane, The Light of Kasaban, The Servant, The Severing Son, The Source of Strife, Thomas Howard Riley, Tim Carter, Undead Samurai, Vaughn Roycroft

Review: The Source of Strife by Alex Arch

May 13, 2025 by Bill Adams Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Only stolen. Mages feed on catalysts like Dinnie to enhance their spells, and since she’s the most formidable weapon alive, they will stop at nothing to control her. Even her parents, leaders of warring realms, wage a battle for her custody, imprisoning her to prevent the other […]

Filed Under: Action Fantasy, Fantasy, Reviews, Self Published, Weird West Tagged With: Alex Arch, Book Review, Fantasy, Fantasy Books, Self Published

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