We’re here today to announce our Team Fanfiaddict’s first semi-finalist and some of the books that we sadly have to cut. With 30 books and only 1 finalist, great reads will inevitably get cut in the first round, so we encourage you to check all of these books out! Without further ado, here are today’s […]
Book Review
Neosynthesis, Anthology
Synopsis These visions explore the myriad realms where humanity and technology intersect, taking readers to distant futures where human and machine exist in uneasy symbiosis, to worlds both grim and wondrous, where survival depends on getting the upper hand. A woman’s passage into a digital afterlife where nothing, not even the self, remains fixed.A hunted […]
Review: Lost Cargo (Get Lost #2) by Noah Chinn
Synopsis Life ain’t easy for a pilot in the Void. An easy score turns into a whole lot of trouble, and the race is on to unload some very problematic cargo. Captured by pirates in his beat up chimera, Maurice “Moss” Foote is having a bad day, until he gets a lead on the gig […]
SPFBO XI Review: A Smattering of Dave’s Reviews
Hello, hello! Today, I’m here with short reviews for all of SPFBO XI books I’ve read so far but haven’t published a review for yet. I’m just one reviewer and these are my personal thoughts. They don’t represent the entire team or any cuts, etc. So without further, adieu, lets get started! The Dragoneers of […]
Review: The Terror by Dan Simmons
Synopsis: The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with […]
Review: Carpentry in the Elven Forest by Alex French
Carpentry in the Elven Forest is the first novel to be released by Alex French and it’s charming and silly in perfect measure. Read on to see just why I enjoyed this book so much … Blurb In a town full of carpenters, how does an apprentice carve his own path? Buckle down, learn his […]
Review: The Book Of Fallen Leaves by A.S Tamaki
Shogun meets Game of Thrones in the blockbuster epic fantasy event of the year ‘Family feuds, political savagery and complex characters on both sides of an epic, unfolding war . . . I loved it’ Nicholas Eames ‘A sprawling, complex fantasy epic that builds toward a brutal finale’Fonda Lee Sen Hoshiakari is an exiled prince […]
SPFBO Review: Blackwater (Serpents and Shadows #1) by Emily Blakeney
Synopsis There is much to be done when the kingdom isn’t looking. Iona Strider is a ruthless pickpocket cursed with a disobedient shadow. Violent, too. Worse, she can’t remember who cursed her, or why. But she does know one thing: with each passing day, her control of the shadow dwindles. In her relentless pursuit of answers, she […]
Review: The Book of Fallen Leaves by A.S. Tamaki
Synopsis: The fates of gods and samurai converge in this Japanese-myth inspired epic fantasy masterpiece from debut author A. S. Tamaki. Sen Hoshiakari, the exiled son of a traitor, is determined to restore his decimated clan to their former power at any cost. But when his path collides with that of Rui, a lowborn woman […]
Review: Cold Snap by Angela Sylvaine
Get warm, read cold Synopsis WORMS GONE WILD! It’s 1998, and the town of Demise, North Dakota, is recovering from the Meteor Murders, hundreds of deaths caused by alien worms but blamed on a mass poisoning by a doomsday cult. While nineteen-year-old Realene’s heroic actions saved the lives of many, she wants nothing more than […]
Review: The Violin by Odella Howe
The Violin draws upon classic stories and Medieval themes, with a touch of paranormality, giving this gothic horror a uniquely timeless feel.
Review: Discovery (Strange Eons #1) by J.A.J. Minton
Synopsis In 1992, at the dawn of the age of technology, disgraced ex-game show host Manny di Martini schemes for a comeback with a deep-sea television special in the South Pacific. He quickly finds himself in over his head, attracting the attention of a cosmic being who will lead Manny to a television broadcast event […]