FantasyCon 2011 – Convention Review
Overlord
By far the most anticipated event on a British fantasy fan’s calendar this year was FantasyCon 2011. Held in the Victorian city of Brighton and within a huge, huge hotel…
Reviews
Zombie Fallout 2: A Plague Upon Your Family by Mark Tufo
ChrisMB
If you haven’t read part one of the Zombie Fallout series, click here to read a review. Welcome to Month of the Living Dead! A month-long look at novels that…
Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
It should be noted that some of the first fantasy stories I ever read fell quite solidly into the sword and sorcery sub-genre. I remember liking them and then starting…
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Dear Mr. or Ms. Reader, It is my duty to inform you that you have been accepted to delve into an enchanting world that exists alongside ours. A world that…
Once Walked With Gods by James Barclay
Once Walked With Gods, was perhaps one of the most raved about new series in 2010. Author James Barclay is indeed one of the most accomplished British authors in the…
The Well at the World’s End by William Morris
Nyki Blatchley
Restless in his home, a rural, backwater country, the hero sets out into the wide world on a dangerous quest that has to do with a piece of jewelry. Crossing…
Fantasy Book Club – October 2011: A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
Hello Fantasy Fans! This month we will be reading A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham. Saraykeht is poised on the knife-edge of disaster. The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is…
Beyond The Pale by Mark Anthony
Elloise Hopkins
I stumbled across this book entirely by accident almost a decade ago when I was on a working holiday in Australia. I had been in Sydney for several weeks working…
Shadow Fox by Ashley J. Barnard
Jennie Ivins
Jared Bruin has felt out of place his whole life. In his current home of London, England, he has few friends, and after his adopted American mother dies, no family.…
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Paolo Chikiamco
Child of Fire is the first novel in Harry Connolly’s Twenty Palaces urban fantasy–well, perhaps urban horror would be a more appropriate term–series (three books long so far), featuring ex-convict…
The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
Jesse Flohrs
Hello again, Faction readers! First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who read my first article on Peter V. Brett. I really appreciated all the comments,…
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Alister Davison
I wasn’t expecting much with this one. Sure, I’d read several reviews that glowed enough to light a room – even the posh critics, those who turn their nose up…