The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Richard Marpole
Zachary Ezra Rawlins, the son of a fortune-teller, is studying for his Masters in Emerging Media (video games). His peaceful, semi-solitary, existence is thrown off course when he checks an…
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Sorcery Reborn by Steve McHugh
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
Sorcery Reborn is the first in a new series by Steve McHugh. At the same time, it’s sort of a direct sequel to the end of his first series, The…
Talk Like A Man by Nisi Shawl
Jonathan Thornton
“She would have to do something. Something else besides living. Something more.” PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series, edited by Terry Bisson, is part of the radical indie press’s politically engaged…
Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko – Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey
L. A. Young
Readers who enjoyed The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins must read Vita Nostra—the first book in the Metamorphosis series. If not,…
Figures Unseen: Selected Stories by Steve Rasnic Tem
Raymond K. Rugg
Figures Unseen by Steve Rasnic Tem is a collection of horror tales for grownups. Oh sure, if a reader really wants to find them, there are ghosts and werewolves and…
Year in Anime 2019
Rakib Ahmad Khan
2019 is coming to its end. Anime has reached new heights in popularity in the Western Hemisphere and now even popular streaming services like Netflix have taken up producing original…
God of Gnomes by Demi Harper
T. O. Munro
I first heard of LitRPG a little over a year ago—and my understanding extended only so far as it was a genre that in some way combined novelisation with role…
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Kellie Doherty
Have you heard of Becky Chambers? If you’re a regular reader of Fantasy-Faction, then perhaps you remember an article about her back in August 2018. Jessica Juby reviewed Record of…
The War of the Worlds – 2019 BBC Adaptation Review
Toby Frost
Imagine you go to a concert to see a classic band perform their greatest hits. However, the band only performs some of their best-known songs, and many of those are…
The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan
Every once in a while, a book is released and it’s all everyone talks about. How great the story is, how rich the characters are, how the worldbuilding matched the…
NaNoWriMo 2019: My Personal Experience – Part Two: I WON!
S. H. Paulus
This is part two of my experience participating in NaNoWriMo 2019, a writing exercise where one attempts to write a novel (50,000 words) in a month’s time. If you haven’t…
Blood of Heirs by Alicia Wanstall-Burke – SPFBO Review
Geoff Matthews
Lidan Tolak is the fiercest of her father’s daughters; more than capable of one day leading her clan. But caught between her warring parents, Lidan’s world begins to unravel when…