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.
Book Review
The Winds of War (The Tapestry of the Tarnished Book 1) by Mosha Winter
Synopsis: THESE THREADS ARE SOAKED IN BLOOD. The Astaris Empire is fracturing, its realm flogged by war and fanaticism. Empress Seline and her Gold Council vie to maintain control, but what is control for a nation built on blood and lies? In the east, the storied Rhaavi people cling to their independence, but as the […]
Review: The Staircase In The Woods by Chuck Wendig
The Staircase In The Woods is an atmospheric, emotionally charged horror thriller through our inner demons made manifest.
Animus Paradox (A Digital Extremities Story) by Adam Bassett
Synopsis: There’s a thief on the loose. The Tigres excel at tipping the scales in their favor, be it through bribes, politics, or blood. They unofficially run Viterbo, Italy – and somebody stole from them. Private investigators David and Mafalda De Campo have been hired to help find the thief. They’re in it for the […]
Review: Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman
Devil Inside shows that sometimes love between two damaged people is poetic and beautiful, but it’s also often destructive, hurtful, and isolating. Either way, it’s also endlessly damn readable!
Cold Wind (Ironbound #2) by Andrew Givler
Synopsis Lost and forgotten, Castor is a prisoner of the very Iron Empire he once served.Thought of as a common criminal, Castor guards his dangerous secret—that he has bound a second Symbol—with his life. If the Censors knew, they’d execute him on the spot. There is only one path to freedom and avenging his family. […]
Review: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Synopsis Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that […]
Review: Upon the Forge of Battle (Age of Wrath, #3) by Anthony Ryan
Synopsis: As the Age of Wrath reaches its bloody conclusion, the world will be reforged in steel and fire . . . Thera Blackspear was once champion to the Sister Queens. Now she’s a queen herself, with Elvine as her spear maiden, wielding a weapon forged by the gods. But while the traitorous Sister Lore […]
Review: Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
Synopsis: “We wake up to tomorrow, never yesterday.” At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she’s ever known. For ten hours a day, six days per week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica. She tells no one that before she arrived, […]
Review: Scion by James Islington
Synopsis: John Wick meets Blade Runner in this fast-paced cyberpunk thriller by the #1 NYT bestselling author of The Will of the Many. My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of […]
Review: The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims
Synopsis From the dark and twisted mind behind the podcast sensation The Magnus Archives comes a suffocating, socially charged nightmare that reveals how fear festers in the cracks of everyday life… Beneath the streets of London, it hungers… It’s the hottest summer on record and the city is suffering. Prices are high, pay is low. And on […]
Review: Hero of the Imperium (Warhammer 40K, Ciaphas Cain #1) by Sandy Mitchell
Synopsis The first Ciaphas Cain omnibus In the 41st millennium Commissar Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium, is an inspiration to his men – at least that’s what the propaganda would have you believe… READ IT BECAUSE Enjoy tall tales of adventure and derring-do in Commissar Cain’s memoirs (annotated by a sarcastic inquisitor). T’au, necrons […]