The Lily or the Tiger by Kiri Callaghan
Kit
God, I wanted to fall in love. Amidst the flurry of the romantic revolution–that’s when the rumors started. We heard about them at school: whispers of people reconnecting with their…
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Wither by Lauren DeStefano
I remember that blackness. There were no walls, there was no up or down. I could have been living or dead. I listened to the other girls as they breathed…
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Mike Shackle
Some books just demand to be read. You come across them by accident; maybe you were browsing in a bookshop or a friend makes a recommendation or perhaps you stumble…
Fantasy Book Club – April 2012: Babylon Steel by Gaie Sebold
Overlord
This month we will be trying a book that I’ve already read and confirm is just fantastic. It is a book that takes the genres of fantasy and science fiction,…
Jenny Pox by J. L. Bryan
“You’re murderers,” she told the stunned crowd. “You killed him. He was a miracle, and you killed him. Now you’ve just got me. And I’m a curse.” Is it even…
The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
Elloise Hopkins
In preparation for the release of the next book in the Rain Wild Chronicles this year, I decided to revisit the Cursed Shores and remind myself of the series so…
Fated by Benedict Jacka
Paul Wiseall
I am always apprehensive at the thought of urban fantasy including magic. I love both UF as a sub-genre and I does bloody love me a good magic system, but…
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
Alister Davison
This one takes me way back. It’s quarter of a century since my teenage self first picked up this book, and it mesmerised me. Even now, I can still remember…
The Merrily Watkins Series by Phil Rickman
Ashley Barnard
Rather than review the books individually from this fantastic series, I thought instead I would review the series as a whole. It’s easy to do, considering I would give each…
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber
Nyki Blatchley
It’s generally accepted that, though there were precursors, the sword and sorcery genre was created in the 1920s and 1930s by Robert E. Howard, with his stories of Conan and…
Windhaven by George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
Dominic Stevens
In recent months I have read The Windsingers by Megan Lindholm (an omnibus edition which collected together the first three novels – Harpy’s Flight, The Windsingers and Limbreth Gate –…
Fantasy-Faction Podcast – Episode 2
Firstly, a HUGE thank you to everyone (over 2250 of you!) who downloaded the first episode of the Podcast. Paul and I are very, very new to this Podcasting malarkey…