Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
Alister Davison
This review’s been a long time coming. It’s almost a year to the day since a friend loaned me his copy of Shadowmarch and suggested I read it and, in…
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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Sonia Grace
The 5th Wave is the first in an ongoing trilogy by Rick Yancey. The second book, The Infinite Sea came out in September, and the third book is expected in…
The Secret Atlas by Michael A. Stackpole
Travis Anderson
I have not yet met a fantasy fan who isn’t into maps, at least when it comes to those printed within the newest book they just picked up. Detailed maps…
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
Geoff Matthews
Terry Pratchett is angry. You’ll like him when he is angry. That is the gist of foreword by Neil Gaiman and as you read through the collected works of non-fiction…
A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
James Davies
A Darkness at Sethanon is a strange novel. Whilst it brings the Riftwar Saga to a conclusive close, it truly kicked off the large-scale entity now commonly referred to as…
Messenger’s Legacy by Peter V. Brett: Review
Overlord
Novellas are hot this year. Half a decade or so ago, before the eBook, few people would have expected that top-name authors would ever be releasing novellas at a steady…
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Richard Bray
A few days before I started reading Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor, I picked up Patrick Rothfuss’s novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Though the stories were different, there…
Maleficent – Movie Review
Karl Wolfenden
Maleficent shows us how far the modern fantasy genre has come, and not just in terms of the subject matter and frequency of adaptations either, but also in terms of…
Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone
Nicholas Schmiedicker
In a genre that is dominated by the gritty and dark following the recent popularity of Game of Thrones, Max Gladstone delivers an impressive tale with an ultimate message of…
Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron
Joie
I can’t resist all things dragon. I admit it. When I saw that Rachel Aaron/Bach had a new series out about a dragon society in the midst of a future…
The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell
Lucy Hounsom
Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell: a partnership fated to succeed from the start. Gaiman’s modest, restless prose teamed with the trademark art of Riddell results in a frank and glorious…
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
Will Everett has spent a long time wishing adventure would find him, but when it does it’s not quite what he expects. In one eventful day he meets the rail…