Arch Enemy by Frank Beddor
Samuel S. B.
I entered the Looking Glass; Saw Redd and now there is an Arch Enemy. I coined this one all by myself and I think it goes well with the meaning…
Reviews
Fantasy Book Club – February 2014: Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
Lisa Taylor
For February, our book club has selected The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay. I have heard so much praise for Kay’s books and that his prose is just…
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
A. E. Marling
If you’re interested in the history of Middle-Earth then The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien will surprise and delight you. Not every reader of The Lord of the Rings will love…
Beauty by Sarah Pinborough
Phil Norris
Beauty is the retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale; all the elements are here, the impenetrable forest, the cursed princess and the handsome prince. This final story in Sarah…
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
Karl Wolfenden
Get ready to enjoy your next bite of Steven Erikson’s bountiful feast, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, when you tuck into book two of the series, Deadhouse Gates. Deadhouse…
Breach Zone by Myke Cole
Mike Shackle
After reading Control Point, book one in the Shadow Ops series, I insisted you “bunker down as the fireballs fly with the bullets and enjoy one of 2012’s most exciting…
Scientists find secret to writing a bestseller
Overlord
Imagine if publishers had the ability to tell whether a manuscript had the potential to become a bestseller within minutes of receiving it… without even reading it. It sounds ridiculous,…
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
CptNemo
This is one of the tenderly beautiful children’s books that is written with wit and an elegant simplicity for all ages. A close comparison that I’m sure many of you…
A Dance of Mirrors by David Dalglish
Nicholas Schmiedicker
A Dance of Blades was much the same as A Dance of Cloaks, in fact, as I mentioned, it wasn’t different enough, in my humble opinion, to warrant an entire…
Kingkiller Book 3 still in Limbo, but lots to look forward to…
A question I get asked almost daily over Twitter is: ‘When will Patrick Rothfuss’s 3rd Kingkiller Chronicles novel be released?’ Every single time I’m asked this question I answer: ‘I…
The Grendel Affair by Lisa Shearin
Joie
New York City. The city that never sleeps is also the first one to be invaded by aliens, face end-of-the-world natural disasters, or signal the beginning of human extinction by…
The Whatnot by Stefan Bachmann
Dan Hanks
I can only imagine that after writing an astonishing debut novel (and one of Fantasy-Faction’s best of 2013), it would be difficult to maintain such high quality in any subsequent…