Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Another Five Fall
A.F.E. Smith
Hot on the heels of the last update, here are another five books to which we are sadly saying goodbye. Again, these books all have something to recommend them –…
Reviews
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: The Next Five
Geoff Matthews
It has been a little while since our last update, but the pace should pick up a little now. As of 24th July, every book we were given has had…
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Jonathan Thornton
“Some books have to be sad to get across the ideas the author wants to talk about. Victor Hugo is describing a very sad part of real history. Hugo wants…
Chains of the Heretic by Jeff Salyards
Laura M. Hughes
Chains of the Heretic is the spectacular denouement to a spectacular (-ly underrated) series, each instalment of which is more thoughtful, more entertaining and more accomplished than the last. Salyards…
Serial Reader: Reading Books One Bite at a Time
Eric Christensen
Serial Reader is a new app that delivers daily chunks of books that can be read in 20 minutes or less to your phone. After a few weeks, I’ve become…
Stranger Of Tempest by Tom Lloyd
Overlord
If you could judge a book by its cover then Tom Lloyd’s Stranger of Tempest would be one of the finest books of the year, unquestionably. However, we all know…
The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan
Richard Bray
In the first book of this new series, Ryan introduces readers to a fascinating world where nations have been replaced by companies, and the most precious resource available is the…
The Winner’s Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
Joie
A roller coaster of emotions in the conclusion to the Winner’s trilogy, The Winner’s Kiss is one of the few books I’ve read this year that made it difficult to…
MJ-12: Inception by Michael J. Martinez
Dan Hanks
Michael J. Martinez first hit our shelves with the incredible Daedalus series, which dazzled critics and fans alike with 18th Century battleships in space and multi-dimensional plotlines. It was a…
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
T. O. Munro
I should confess that I am not a great aficionado of contemporary vampire stories. I’ve watched a few fragmentary episodes of Buffy, but I’ve have never read Twilight, nor watched…
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Tor’s novella series was started in 2015, with the aim of promoting this shorter medium. The line includes both established authors and those just making their debut, and has included…
Veil of the Deserters by Jeff Salyards
You’ll be pleased to know that I’m not here to bore you with generalised, hyperbolic gushing about how much I’m loving the world of Jeff Salyards’ Bloodsounder’s Arc (I waffled…