Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Richard Bray
“Well, we’ve managed to get ourselves locked into the most secure prison in the world. We’re either geniuses or the dumbest sons of bitches to ever breathe air.” Fantasy-Faction recently…
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Fallout 4: Of Dogs and Desk Fans
Geoff Matthews
It’s been a few a days since I left…since I escaped the vault. The world has changed and I’m saying that as the reigning master of understatement. It’s been destroyed,…
Black Butler I & II / Kuroshitsuji – Anime Review
Rebekah Loper
Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) can be a somewhat confusing franchise for those new to the material. First, it was a manga, written and drawn by Yana Toboso. The manga was then…
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
Jonathan Thornton
“There’s never going to be an end to suffering if ‘he deserves it’ is all the justification people need for inflicting pain.” Ken Liu is known in the SFF community…
Luke Skywalker Can’t Read and Other Geeky Truths by Ryan Britt
Eric Christensen
I think it is fair to say that nerds tend to be obsessive completists who love to study things at a very granular level. And one of our favorite things…
The Thief Who Knocked On Sorrow’s Gate by Michael McClung
When did I go from being a thief to some sort of hero? When exactly did that happen, and how could I possibly not have noticed? I was introduced to…
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens – Spoiler Free Review
Zachary A. Matzo
Writer’s Note: This is truly a spoiler-free review. And while normally I’d never ask for anyone to censor themselves, allow me to issue this simple plea: don’t spoil the movie…
The Shores of Spain by J. Kathleen Cheney
Jo Niederhoff
J. Kathleen Cheney’s trilogy about an alternate Portugal secretly populated by sereia (better known as sirens), selkies, and otter people comes to a conclusion in The Shores of Spain. The…
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
“By its own reality, ecstasy makes people see that suffering is real. And without purpose. Ecstasy is a light that illuminates pain.” In Unquenchable Fire (1988), Rachel Pollack imagines an…
The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman
Lucy Hounsom
I loved Cogman’s first novel, which introduced us to the Library, a vast repository of books collected from multiple alternate worlds. Irene is one of its agents, posted to a…
An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Overlord
An Ember In The Ashes has landed with a huge splash in an ocean full of Hunger Games-esque titles; perhaps due to the incredibly favourable 5* reviews amongst the usually…
The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
Trent Cannon
I should, in the interest of fairness, begin with two disclaimers. The first is that I freaking love Jim Butcher, to an extent that would make both him and my…