A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly
Joie
Think 1920s Prohibition, except alcohol is not what is illegal. Magic is. Enough damage was done by past magic users that any and all evidence of magic is shunned and…
The Heart of Stone by Ben Galley – Cover Reveal
Jennie Ivins
Here on Fantasy-Faction we are fans of both cool cover art and cool authors. Today we are lucky to have a little of both! Our once contributor, now successful self-published…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Politics, Scheming, and Intrigue
Xiagan
Scheming courtiers with different goals, layers of conflict, strings being pulled behind the scenes, power shifting, social climbers, too cocksure of themselves to be careful, poison… Political fantasy stories (think…
The Perdition Score by Richard Kadrey
Zachary A. Matzo
Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series has quietly worked its way into a place of prominence on my shelf. Imagine a punk rock Harry Dresden fresh out of s to give,…
Yseult by Ruth Nestvold – SPFBO Review: And Then There Were Five
Laura M. Hughes
The SPFBO team are making steady progress in our search for a finalist. To avoid cruelly stretching things out, we’ll be posting individual reviews for those who don’t make it…
Gilded Cage by Vic James
Lucy Hounsom
Gilded Cage began life as a Wattpad success and it’s easy to see why. Sitting halfway between the YA and adult markets, James’ story has a wide appeal and deals…
A Cast of Roles
Aaron Miles
Through the course of a novel, the author will create and introduce a wide array of different characters to the reader. Often they might do it on automatic, smoothly introducing…
Star Trek Beyond – Movie Review
Stephen Rhodes
The summer film season is always a mixed bag of emotions for me. There’s the thrill of all the blockbuster films as the studios roll out their big guns to…
Terminus by Ryan Howse – SPFBO Review: And Then There Were Six
The SPFBO team are making steady progress in our search for a finalist. To avoid cruelly stretching things out, we’ll be posting individual reviews for those who don’t make it…
Kojiki by Keith Yatsuhashi
Jonathan Thornton
Keith Yatsuhashi’s debut novel Kojiki (2016) is a wide-screen epic fantasy, a coming of age story that draws as much from Myazaki’s Studio Ghibli films as it does from Tolkien…
Hope And Red by Jon Skovron
Overlord
The short version: Hope And Red is the most fun book I’ve read in 2016 and one of the first I will recommend to people, from now on, who ask…
Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
Eric Christensen
Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal presents an alternate World War I where a soldier’s duty doesn’t end when the shell falls or the bullet finds a target. Spiritualism is…