Summary: Four generations ago a generation ship crashed into the sands of Savene. Since then, its survivors have eked out an existence in the planet’s hostile desert. Yet, the tech is failing, the sands are encroaching, and people are dying. Rescue is still generations away—if it comes at all. But Marsa is a survivor. And […]
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Review: Mothers Are Made by
FanFiAddict obviously mostly seems like an SFFH blog, but I was assured that I can post all my other reviews here as well. While I won’t drown you all in smutty reviews all the time, I do have a non-SFFH book here and there that I really want to share with more people, especially non-fiction […]
Review: Rebel Unbound (Promissa Trilogy #1) by E.R. Phoenix
Synopsis: 2213. After decades of war, the city of Promissa is under the rule of the New World Government, which controls every aspect of the citizens’ lives by restricting resource distribution. Abigail is hurled into this world of brutality and despair and loses hope as loneliness and misery swallow her whole. Little does she know […]
Review: Fathomfolk (Drowned World #1) by Eliza Chan
Synopsis Welcome to Tiankawi – shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that’s how it first appears. But in the semi-flooded city, humans are, quite literally, on peering down from skyscrapers and aerial walkways on the fathomfolk — sirens, seawitches, kelpies and kappas—who live in the polluted waters […]
Review: Majordomo by Tim Carter
Summary: A plucky underdog. A powerful necromancer. And the idiot heroes bent on killing them. Kobolds are supposed to run away—it’s what they’re best at. But Jack? Born with a club foot, he’s had to adapt. Resilient and clever, he clawed his way to respectability as majordomo of a premiere subterranean estate. He even found […]
Review: Grave Empire (The Great Silence #1) by Richard Swan
This is a brilliant beginning to a new horror fantasy trilogy that I really hope catches on, as I’d love to see more overt horror in the fantasy genre. Grave Empire rules, and you need to read it right now!
Review: Zombie Bigfoot (Creature Quest Series Book 1) by Nick Sullivan
Summary The truth is out there… and it will eat your face. “Bigfoot is real.” That’s what Sarah’s father told her before his academic disgrace and untimely death. Now, primatologist Dr. Sarah Bishop is eager to restore her father’s good name. Survival show host Russ Cloud is just as eager to boost his plummeting ratings. […]
Review: A Fold to Extinction by S.S. Fitzgerald
Synopsis: We assume extinction level events are cataclysmic events, but what if they were microscopic, like our history teaches us? To the rest of the world, a random tsunami is but one disaster among other events to speculate over. Unbeknownst to most of the world, the disaster is but a single ripple caused by a […]
Review: Absolute Martian Manhunter #1
Synopsis: Beyond Mars…beyond physical form…beyond Human Understanding…all that’s left is the ultimate alien: the Absolute Martian Manhunter! Review: Why do people do what they do? That’s the question of Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, the boldest experiment in the Absolute DC initiative so far, and perhaps the strongest. Written by Deniz Camp with art – the […]
Review: Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy
Rest Stop is like the best A24 movie in novella format, a story crying out for a screen adaption, and frankly, a super exciting literal edge-of-your-seat scream of a tale. I can’t wait to read more Nat Cassidy!
Review: The Sirens by Emilia Hart
Synopsis A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound together in more ways than they can imagine 2019: Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales hoping Jess […]
Review: The Poorly Made & Other Things by Sam Rebelein
A collection of stories that create a new legend, a folkloric telling of stories that build the horror that is Renfield County. And a riveting read from start to finish!