Infernal by Mark de Jager
Richard Marpole
A man called Stratus wakes up paralysed in the middle of nowhere. He has no memory of how he got there or of anything else, except his first name. Vultures…
fantasy
The Children of D’Hara by Terry Goodkind – Excerpt
Jennie Ivins
Last year we lost one of epic fantasy’s biggest names, Terry Goodkind. Goodkind appeared on the scene in 1994 with the first book in his world-famous Sword of Truth series,…
Black Stone Heart by Michael R. Fletcher – SPFBO #6 Finals Review
A. M. Justice
A broken man, Khraen awakens alone and lost. His stone heart has been shattered, littered across the world. With each piece, he regains some small shard of the man he…
Fantasy-Themed Cookbooks
Kellie Doherty
Hello fellow nerds! A little while back I wrote about the Firefly: Big Damn Cookbook and how awesome it was to prepare recipes inspired by the show. Well, that got…
Fantasy-Faction’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021
Geoff Matthews
Let us add to your tbr pile once again (we do see that as our main duty and responsibility) with these most anticipated books of 2021!
The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons
L. A. Young
Many fantasy stories tend to focus on a set of characters within one central setting. Then, there are the stories that take place across generations and various locations. The former…
Fantasy-Faction’s Favourite Books of 2020
Here they are, Fantasy-Faction's Favourite books of 2020 and we hope your TBR pile explodes!
The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
Stories are told as entertainment, and we all become familiar with certain tropes: the lost heir, the fulfillment of the prophecy, the quest for a mythical sword, etc. Nowadays, some…
Holiday Microfiction: “The Dragon and the Silver Bell: A Christmas Story” by S. H. Paulus
Today, we have S. H. Paulus and “The Dragon and the Silver Bell: A Christmas Story”. – – – “The Dragon and the Silver Bell: A Christmas Story” by S.…
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
A. A. Freeman
I never enjoy describing things with, “It’s like X meets Y!” since I always felt it was a rather lazy way to describe something. No one says, “Hamsters are like…
Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore – SPFBO #6 Semi-Finals Review
Today we review the last book of our thirty-book batch in the sixth annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off with our fourth semi-finalist Where Shadows Lie. How this book stacks up against…
Shadow of a Dead God by Patrick Samphire – SPFBO #6 Semi-Finals Review
Among the coincidences of topics and titles in the sixth annual Self-Publishing Fantasy Blog-Off, Fantasy-Faction had not only four books with dragon in the title and five titles containing shadow,…