Why Fantasy?
Dan Hanks
For a writer of fantasy, I’ve written remarkably little about fantasy. I can slip it on like a second skin, but never really stopped to think just how easy it…
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The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind
Kit
Terry Goodkind brought readers into the world of the Sword of Truth in 1994. Over the series of 11 novels, the reader is taken on a journey of magic and…
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Overlord
Terry Pratchett – “ the bloke who knows about quantum. I’m the bloke who knows about faeries.” Terry Pratchett is perhaps the world’s finest satirical writer. I believe that everything…
Where. R. U? – Creating a Fantasy World
A. J. Zaethe
Where. R. U? A dream? A fantasy? Both? Alice fell. Through shadow…and flame. Wait. That was Gandalf. But she did fall, and she did face the trials of another world.…
Dragons: An Introduction
Leo Elijah Cristea
Dragons: Why do they permeate fantasy fiction, and moreover, what are they supposed to be? Despite the varied literature in which they appear, the appearance of a dragon—with a little…
The Broken Isles by Mark Charan Newton
Laura Graham
Well, here we are ladies and gents, the finale fling for The Legends of the Red Sun series. And you know what? What a satisfying last jaunt it is. The…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Paths
Jennie Ivins
Welcome back writers and readers! Last month was busy wasn’t it? Here at Fantasy-Faction we saw the last day of our Anthology Contest come and go. Amazingly, we received 1,734…
The Humanised Hero
Emma Hays
If someone were to tell you that you are going to be a hero one day, that you alone must save the world, what would you do? Would you run…
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Hannah
Celeana Sardothien is an infamous assassin. Yet the seventeen-year-old is living out the rest of her days imprisoned and set to work in Endovier’s harsh salt mines. All because she…
A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller
First and foremost, I must say this: While this book may technically be a prequel to the series Kingmaker / Kingbreaker, for the love of all that is holy, at…
A Feast of Ice and Fire by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer
Elloise Hopkins
Having spotted this on the Inn at the Crossroads blog, I was utterly intrigued and decided I simply had to add it to my reviews list. Firstly because it was…
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Paul Wiseall
Kelly Link is not a name that is commonly heard when discussing contemporary fantasy writers as too often these discussions are populated with names like Rothfuss and Pratchett and R.…