SPFBO Finalist Review: Touch a Silent Fury by R. A. Sandpiper
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
She rides to claim her fate, he flies to burn it down. As the only woman in the Moontouched Brotherhood, Tani studies on the haughty island of Eavenfold surrounded by…
10 years of BistolCon – for me!
This year wasn’t my 10th BristolCon (thanks, COVID), but it was my 10-year anniversary. So this isn’t going to be a journalistic write-up of panels and programme items. I didn’t…
Covenant of Steel by Anthony Ryan – Series Review
Stuart Cripps-Schnoor
Pariah. Martyr. Traitor. Outlaw. Scholar. Warrior. An epic tale tracing Alwyn Scribe’s rise from lowborn thief to a man whose choices and allegiances will determine the fate of the kingdom…
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke – Review
Tom Joyce
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others.…
Spooky Short Reads: Sworn Soldier Series by T. Kingfisher
Aly Noel
October means it’s Spooky Season for a lot of us. As readers, the urge to read something spooky and atmospheric strikes with the colder weather and ghoulish activities being enjoyed…
Gods of Obsidian by Liz Delton – Cover Reveal
Today we get to reveal the cover for Gods of Obsidian, the third and final book in Liz Delton’s Legends of Gold and Silver series. Above you already got a…
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold – Review
James Latimer
A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, as the secretary-tutor to…
SPFBO Finalist Review: A Light From the Nether by Molly Dowd Sullivan
Liam O’Connor is special. When a Fissure opens in someone’s mind, he’s the one who sews it up again. When a parasite creeps through that Fissure, Liam is the exterminator…
A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis – Review
Margaret Dunhaven may have been forced into marriage with the sinister vampire lord of Shadowcroft Manor to fulfill a family obligation, but she’s not about to stay trapped there for…
Monstrous Humans and Humane Monsters
Colleen McMillan
Every spooky season, I watch as much scary stuff as possible. It can be “cute” scary like Over the Garden Wall or “you will not sleep for a week” scary…
The Book of Words by J. V. Jones – Series Review
Christopher Keene
The Baker’s Boy by J. V. Jones At vast Castle Harvell, where King Lesketh lies dying, two fates collide. In her regal suite, young Melliandra, the daughter of an influential…
The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth – Review
Funny and a little melancholy, like finding an old friendship bracelet at the back of a drawer and realising you still want to wear it.