A Fantasy Geek’s Guide to YouTube: Mythology
Richard Marpole
YouTube is an app, a website and a cultural phenomenon. It’s also a vast and only partially explored wilderness full of content that ranges from dynamic to dire. Whatever your…
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Pilgrimage to Skara & Devil’s Night Dawning – Double SPFBO Reviews
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
Pilgrimage to Skara by Jonathan Pembroke Self-Published – July 28, 2016 Fantasy Ebook 3.5/10 stars It has been nearly two decades since Pell Wendt abandoned the power and prestige of…
Monster Hunter World – Video Game Review
Geoff Matthews
I have no desire to stalk and kill big game across the savanna plains of Africa. To be honest, the whole concept of big game hunting; shooting and killing an…
The Summerlark Elf by Brandon Draga
JC Kang
An elf with a mysterious background? Check. A Halfling with a less than reputable profession? Check. A half-elf with parental issues? Check. A dwarf with a pickaxe? Check. All of…
R. A. Salvatore Interview – Child of a Mad God
Joshua Robertson
R. A. Salvatore quit his day job in 1990 to fully embrace his love affair with fantasy. Many of us fantasy nerds are glad he did! Although he scarcely needs…
The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams
Pippa
This is the second book in the Winnowing Flame trilogy and continues soon after the end of the first book, The Ninth Rain. Since this is a sequel I will…
Brian Rathbone Interview
Born on a farm in New Jersey, International bestselling fantasy author, Brian Rathbone, proclaims himself to be a bit odd. From training Standardbred racehorses to working at a nuclear plant…
Darkstorm by M. L. Spencer
My early impression of Darkstorm, the prequel to the Rhenwars Saga series by M. L. Spencer, was that everyone was a magic user; and that in contradiction to the adage,…
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
R. S. McCoy
People acquire books in all kinds of ways. Book boxes mail out a semi-random selection. Friends and relatives gift books we may or may not really enjoy. In this case,…
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’…
Year in Anime – 2017
Rakib Ahmad Khan
My interest in anime has been rather lacking since 2013. Despite occasionally re-watching classics or catching up on stuff that I missed, I actually thought anime had become rather repetitive…
Tiger Lily by K. Bird Lincoln – SPFBO Review
Lily isn’t supposed to hunt game in the Daimyo’s woods. She’s just the cook’s daughter. It isn’t her place to talk to nobility. And she definitely isn’t supposed to sing…