Guardians of the Flame by Joel Rosenberg – Series Review
Geoff Matthews
“A one. How did I roll a one?” “Your mage miscasts his spell and, without warning, the white filaments of the web spell smother your friends in a sticky embrace,…
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Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig
Dan Hanks
Chuck Wendig is a name most readers here will recognise. A stellar writing force on the internet, his opinions, arguments, sage advice and (often) sage profanity are well known and…
Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues edited by J. M. Martin
Richard Bray
The overwhelming majority of characters in Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues, edited by J.M. Martin, are not very nice people. These aren’t loveable rascals, playing harmless tricks in…
Mad Max: Fury Road – Movie Review
Charlie Hopkins
George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is an absolute cinematic tour de force and the only ones in disagreement are a small group of men who found the women in…
Self-Published Fantasy Redux: Riyria. Revelation.
Zachary A. Matzo
My favorite fantasy books of 2015 have been self-published. For a guy that wrote “Self-Published Fantasy and Me” for this very website, that is quite an admission. And while I…
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Lucy Hounsom
A word of warning before we begin: As soon as I finished this book, it went straight into my top five all-time favourites, so be prepared for raving. I’ve reviewed…
List of Upcoming SFF Masterwork Re-releases
Overlord
I’ve promised that each month I will bring to you guys a list of the following month’s Fantasy Book Releases (if you missed April/May’s post, click here). However, I also…
Rogue Legacy – Video Game Review
Victoria Hooper
When I started this game I thought it would be a fun distraction for a Sunday afternoon, a cute little game that would remind me of the old games I…
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Lew Kelly
A curiously told tale, not driven by words but by pictures; a unique selling point, and probably the reason why Ransom Rigg’s debut novel dominated the New York Times Bestseller…
The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes
If you’ve read Tome of the Undergates you will know roughly what to expect when you pick up a book by Sam Sykes. You take a step away from today’s…
Skinwalker by Faith Hunter
Joie
I am obviously late to the party having just started this series, but I can certainly understand the enthusiastic following. If this first novel is any indication of what’s to…
The Death House by Sarah Pinborough
Alister Davison
With a title like The Death House, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was one of those gory shlock horrors written towards the end of the twentieth century. Unusually for…