Synopsis SOME LAWS YOU BREAK. SOME BREAK YOU.AND THEN THERE’S CAINE’S LAW. From the moment Caine first appeared in the pages of Heroes Die, two things were clear. First, that Matthew Stover was one of the most gifted fantasy writers of his generation. And second, that Caine was a hero whose peers go by such […]
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Review: The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
Synopsis In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake. Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through […]
Review: Sacaran Nights (The Masque Duology #1) by Rachel Emma Shaw
Synopsis: Sacara is decaying. The dead walk the streets, fungi light the night and Dagner must fight to keep the rot at bay. The Spare of Galenn died the turn his brother fell into the putrefaction fields, tumbling into the decaying detritus below. The Heir of Galenn was no more. Species of rot rarely seen […]
Review: The Only Way Out Is Up (The Sigilist #1) by Django Wexler
Synopsis: A small-time scrapper and his pet robot will fight their way out of the junk-heap in a tournament that will either make them richer than gods or rip them apart in the first book of Django Wexler’s lightning paced progression fantasy adventure for fans of Cradle and Dungeon Crawler Carl. Taj lives in a […]
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy #1) by Mark Lawrence
Synopsis Evar has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities. Livira has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never noticed them. That’s about to change. As their stories spiral around each other, […]
Review: Sisters of the Lizard (The Rakada #2) by Jackson Ford
Sisters of the Lizard is a phenomenal sequel. It builds upon everything that book did, and delivers a shockingly emotional finale.
Review: House of the Dragon season 3
“It feels a lot like empty spectacle.” House of the Dragon Season Three was a controversial subject among Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire fans even before it was released because George R.R. Martin wrote a blog post criticizing the changes that showrunner Ryan Condall made to the story described in […]
Review: Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen #2) by John Gwynne
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.
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 […]
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Synopsis Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when […]
Review: The Dungeon Book by Gareth Hanrahan
Synopsis: Enter a world of dungeons and dragons, magic and manticores, goblins and gargoyles in this captivating standalone fantasy from the author of The Gutter Prayer. Bait doesn’t remember a time before the dungeon. Before the dragon stole her from her cot. She doesn’t know what her name was before she was handed over to […]
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. […]