The Armored Saint by Myke Cole
Rakib Ahmad Khan
To be able to write efficiently in more than one genre is a rare talent. Although I loved his first series, I going to be really honest at the onset…
Tor Books
City of Lies by Sam Hawke
Charlie Hopkins
City of Lies was entertaining from start to finish. It was incredibly refreshing to see poison front and centre in a book. City of Lies follows the two viewpoints of…
The Sons of Heaven by Kage Baker
Jo Niederhoff
Whew. Eight books and several hundred years later (or several hundred thousand years, depending on whether you’re counting from the Spanish Inquisition or Options Research and Back Way Back… time…
The Machine’s Child by Kage Baker
I have some very mixed feelings about The Machine’s Child. On the one hand, I think I will always love Kage Baker’s work. The future she paints is intricate and…
The Children of the Company by Kage Baker
Oh. My. God. Those are just about the only words I can think to describe my reaction to reading The Children of the Company. While I don’t know that I’d…
Death’s Mistress by Terry Goodkind
Pippa
Death’s Mistress is the first book in the Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles series. It is a new series following a character already established in Goodkind’s previous books, the…
The Life of the World to Come by Kage Baker
We know about Mendoza. We know about Joseph. We even know a bit about Lewis, though not quite as much as the other two. (And that’s all right, fond though…
Deadhouse Landing by Ian C. Esslemont
Richard Marpole
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…
Fantasy in the Court 2017
Geoff Matthews
Back in August I headed up to the ‘big smoke’ – though with electric cars, the congestion charge and the general relocation of heavy industry out of London, it is…
Cover Reveal & Extract for A TIME OF DREAD by John Gwynne
Michael Everest
John Gwynne is a favourite here at Fantasy Faction. His The Faithful and the Fallen series has been named in our ‘best of’ and ‘most anticipated’ lists time and again,…
Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys
Jonathan Thornton
“It’s one thing to say that humanity is ultimately unimportant in the face of the cosmos. It’s another to stand before someone who believes, deep down, that your pain is…
Cold Counsel by Chris Sharp
Laura M. Hughes
A troll, a night-hag and an undead goblin walk into a bar. What? Oh, it’s not a joke. It’s how the post-credits scene would look if Chris Sharp’s novel were…