Sins of a Sovereignty by Plague Jack
Geoff Matthews
The story begins in a prologue where we meet the Spider-Witch, her husband and an elf named Adan. We don’t get to see them again until the epilogue. They serve…
dark fantasy
Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley
Eric Christensen
Last year, in my review of Kameron Hurley’s THE MIRROR EMPIRE, I called that book different, difficult, wildly inventive, risky, and provocative. EMPIRE ASCENDANT levels up on all counts. In…
Magic-Price by C. L. Schneider
Stephen Rhodes
Like most people who frequent the pages of Fantasy-Faction, I read a lot. I have many favourite authors who have released several books or even several series. Being a writer…
The Price of Faith by Rob J. Hayes
Richard Bray
With The Price of Faith, the third and final book in Rob J. Hayes’ The Ties that Bind series, Hayes once again returns to the central plot established in the…
The Color of Vengeance by Rob J. Hayes
This review contains spoilers for book one, The Hersey Within. Please read with caution if you have yet to finish the first book. In the Wilds, you either adapt or…
The Heresy Within by Rob J. Hayes
A few months ago, I reviewed Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries and Rogues (you can find that review here), and noted that the anthology’s protagonists had a certain moral flexibility…
The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence
Charlie Hopkins
You know when you spend a silly amount of time setting the mood for someone that is special to you. You experiment with the lighting to make sure it is…
A Crown For Cold Silver by Alex Marshall
A CROWN FOR COLD SILVER hits a lot of notes that fans of epic fantasy will recognize and appreciate: generals fighting one last war using a mercenary army; a colorful…
Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues edited by J. M. Martin
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…
If Mark Lawrence rewrote Frozen…
Overlord
Is Frozen too cute and cuddly for you? Feel cheated by Disney’s lack of blood and horror? Think it would be for the best if Mark Lawrence, Joe Abercrombie, George…
Sword of the North by Luke Scull
This is definitely some high quality grimdark, with a brilliant cast of flawed and complex protagonists that you cannot help but become invested in. The major story careens between Brodar…
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
Half the World continues the story of Yarvi, now the “deeply cunning” minister of Gettland, but rather than continuing Yarvi’s story through his own eyes, as Abercrombie did in Half…