Synopsis Destiny, personal responsibility, what the future holds – common concerns for anyone graduating high school. But usually not because of a cosmic war between timeless beings where you’re the central player. As the end of school quickly approaches, and Cooper Bailey watches his perfect world slip away, his only concern is savouring every last […]
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Review: Traitor of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles #2) by Ed McDonald
Synopsis Traitor of Redwinter is the second in Ed McDonald’s Redwinter Chronicles, full of shady politics, militant monks, ancient powers… and a young woman navigating a world in which no one is quite what they seem. The power of the Sixth Gate grows stronger within Raine each day―to control it, she needs lessons no living […]
Review: Merciless Waters by Rae Knowles
There’s worse things than drowning, folks… Synopsis The sea never changes. Neither do Lily and Jaq. Aboard the ship Scylla, there is no future or past. Jaq, her fickle lover Lily, and their all-female crew exist in an endless present. It’s better this way. At least it keeps Lily by Jaq’s side, where she belongs. […]
Review: The Forbidden Realms (Fallen Light Series #2) by H.C. Newell
Synopsis Book II of the Fallen Light series. Nerana is a sorceress. An exile. The Child of Skye. And she isn’t alone. After a vicious attack against the Order of Saro, Nerana finds herself lost in the wastelands of Aragoth. Forbidden of humans or evae, the desert is a land teeming with fire and […]
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
Synopsis Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by […]
Review: Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes #0) by Travis Baldree
Synopsis: When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn’t always what we seek. In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, New York Times bestselling author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books. Viv’s career with the […]
Review: Beast by Matt Wesolowski
Synopsis Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories. Review For those unfamiliar with the Six Stories series, I will start off by saying that this is book 4 of 6. Having also […]
Review: The Lessons Never Learned (The War Eternal #2) by Rob J. Hayes
Synopsis I am the weapon. Eskara is free of the Pit, but far from safe. She is beset by the ghosts of those she has killed, and plagued by the ancient horror that possesses her. Enemies dog her heels, determined to see the last Orran Sourcerer dead. Worse still, there is new player in the […]
Review: Along the Razor’s Edge (The War Eternal Series #1) by Rob J. Hayes
Synopsis The War Eternal is a 5 book completed series. No one escapes the Pit. The war is over. Sixteen-year-old Eskara Helsene was a Sourcerer, a weapon for her empire. But she fought on the wrong side. Now she is a prisoner serving out a life sentence in the mines of the Pit, where there […]
Review: Ruins of Smoke (The Smokesmiths #0.5) by João F. Silva
Synopsis The Usharian Empire rules the Known World with an iron fist. Imperials protect their world from the tainted hand of the Deceiver, but he is back with an avatar capable of breaking the Empire and grounding humanity into ash. JEHA is a sentinel of the Empire, willing to fight and die for kinship and […]
Review: However Many Must Die (Blood Scouts #1) By Phil Williams
Synopsis Wild Wish was trained to do one thing: kill. Saved from a lonely backwater existence by a global war, Wish couldn’t believe her luck when she got into the Blood Scouts. Now she gets to share tents with an all-female platoon of night-stalking, giant-slaying, boat-sinking, battle-swaying legends in the making. The problem is, they […]
Review: No Hook for the Hood (A “Shadows of the Colliegiate” Short Story) by D.B. Rook
Synopsis In the shadow of The Collegiate lies a town displaced by a raging plague. Without succour and the accord penned by the Collegiate’s shrewd council, decimation is inevitable.The accord weighs human lives against servitude and casts a light on the desperation of simple townsfolk.Indentured executioner, Grawnden Tweed, is finally days away from freedom.A man […]