SPFBO 10 Champions League: Rob J. Hayes – Where Loyalties Lie -Review
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
It is sharp without being flowery and keeps the focus where it belongs, on the characters and their choices.
Grimdark
A Good Day to Die by G.R. Matthews – Reveal and Review
A brutal, layered tale of vengeance, faith, and survival. Rawlins’ journey from merciless killer to something almost human is gripping
A Winter’s Mercy by Phil Williams – Review
a dark, muddy, and deeply human military fantasy that manages to be both brutal and heartwarming. It is a story about survival, loyalty, and the people who keep fighting when…
SPFBO 10 Champions League: The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French
French deserves credit for doing something original with grimdark genre and creating a setting quite different to what you will usually have read
A Winter’s Mercy by Phil Williams – Coming Soon
I cannot wait to see what new landscapes, monsters, and moral questions this book will throw at me. Winter is coming to the Blood Scouts, and I’m ready for every…
Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey – Review
Once Was Willem is dark, strange and often brutal, but also moving and full of heart.
Julia’s Favourite Self Published SFF Books – A Giant List – Part 3 – Grimdark Fantasy
... grab your sharpest sword, polish your blackest armor, and let’s head into the shadows…
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff – Review
Jayna
Solid story-telling, intriguing characters and plotline.
Godblind by Anna Stephens
Outside of the carnage there is some delicious political intrigue and machinations which I love in any story.
Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
...in typical Lawrence fashion the ending left me with just enough questions that I need to read the next book to have some closure.
War for the Rose Throne by Peter McLean – Series Review
A masterclass in grimdark fantasy. Spanning four novels, it delivers a gritty, emotionally charged saga of war, power, loyalty, trauma, and survival.