Cold Iron by Miles Cameron
Richard Marpole
Cold Iron follows the exploits of Aranthur Timos, a poor but conscientious student, at a university called The Academy, which can be found in a city called the City. The…
epic fantasy
Masters of Deception by J. C. Kang
Rakib Ahmad Khan
I would like to start with a confession, I haven’t read any of J.C. Kang’s previous novels and know nothing about the world in which this story takes place. I…
Blood of the Gods by David Mealing
Pippa
Blood of the Gods is the second book in the epic fantasy trilogy, The Ascension Cycle. It follows closely after the events of the first book, Soul of the World.…
Brian Lee Durfee Interview – The Blackest Heart
S. H. Paulus
I’d like to start-off this interview by not asking a question but, stating how incredibly excited I am to interview an author whose work (The Forgetting Moon, book one of…
Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan
This is the second instalment of the Gods of Blood and Powder series and follows the events of the first book, Sins of Empire, with the same three perspectives. The…
The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French
JC Kang
In my review of Phil Tucker’s The Siege of Abythos, I felt like that guy at a sports stadium, trying to start the wave, in my attempt to make the…
An Echo of Thing to Come by James Islington
An Echo of Thing to Come is the second book in The Licanius Trilogy, the first being The Shadow of What Was Lost. The trilogy is an epic fantasy set…
Blood of the Four by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
Charlie Hopkins
In the great kingdom of Quandis, everyone is a slave. Some are slaves to the gods. Most are slaves to everyone else. Blessed by the gods with lives of comfort…
The Crimson Queen by Alec Hutson – SPFBO Review
Geoff Matthews
Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea,…
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Aficionados of Hong Kong Cinema, hear me out: Imagine Chow Yun-Fat in one of his classic ‘90s Triad movies, but give him the superhuman martial skills from the Show Brothers’…
Fonda Lee Interview – Jade City
Today we have a real treat for you! Fonda Lee, author of the Nebula nominated Jade City, is here to speak with us! If you’ve not read Jade City you…
Deadhouse Landing by Ian C. Esslemont
Spoiler Warning: This review contains minor and very general spoilers for the Path of Ascendancy series. But then this is a prequel series so the spoilers here are no worse…