The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan
Richard Bray
The second book in Brian McClellan’s Powder Mage Trilogy, The Crimson Campaign, is graced by a cover – and quote – that swaggers onto the scene with a unique blend…
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Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
Overlord
As with most of my reviews, this post contains spoilers, but for no more than the first 1/4 of the book. Because so many reviews of this book are out…
Fantasy Book Club – July 2014: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Jennie Ivins
For July, our members voted to read Red Rising by Pierce Brown. The war begins… Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the…
Skin Game by Jim Butcher
Declan Barnes
This review contains some minor spoilers. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the story. You would expect that after fourteen books a fantasy writer might start to…
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
So after reading through Annihilation, I immediately looked up when Authority was coming out in order to present myself at my favorite bookstore and acquire it as soon as it…
Rise and Fall by Joshua P. Simon
Aaron Miles
I skimmed through a number of books in my kindle backlog before this review. Some I rejected because there were too many errors in the text, some because the characters…
Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord
Mike Reeves-McMillan
There’s a small, but flourishing, group of Caribbean writers of African descent working in SFF at the moment, and I’m starting to read their work and, so far, finding it…
Reaper’s Gale by Steven Erikson
Karl Wolfenden
You’ve heard of the super cell? That thankfully rare occasion where a number of storms, each one a threat to life and limb and capable of doing some serious property…
The Buried Life by Carrie Patel
Alister Davison
The gaslight and shadows of the underground city of Recoletta hide secrets and lies. When Inspector Liesl Malone investigates the murder of a renowned historian, she finds herself stonewalled by…
Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor
Joie
“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil pressed their hands to their hearts and started the apocalypse.” And so begins Dreams of Gods & Monsters, Laini Taylor’s conclusion…
Shield and Crocus by Michael R. Underwood
Eric Christensen
Ever since Jaws, summer is the time Hollywood studios release their action blockbusters. If the movie has robots, monsters, superheroes, or magic, odds are, it’ll come out during the summer.…
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Travis Anderson
I feel like I have a thing for crews. In my first review here I praised the quirky scoundrels that took centre stage in Patrick Weeke’s The Palace Job and,…