Arch Enemy by Frank Beddor
Samuel S. B.
I entered the Looking Glass; Saw Redd and now there is an Arch Enemy. I coined this one all by myself and I think it goes well with the meaning…
YA
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
CptNemo
This is one of the tenderly beautiful children’s books that is written with wit and an elegant simplicity for all ages. A close comparison that I’m sure many of you…
The Whatnot by Stefan Bachmann
Dan Hanks
I can only imagine that after writing an astonishing debut novel (and one of Fantasy-Faction’s best of 2013), it would be difficult to maintain such high quality in any subsequent…
Banished by Liz de Jager
Hierath
Liz De Jager’s debut novel, Banished, is set in a world where the borders between the realm of Faerie and our own world, the Frontier, are thin and porous. It’s…
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
Last time, I shared my thoughts on the magnificent adaptation of Carroll’s Wonderland by Frank Beddor. The Looking Glass Wars has always moved me to the depths of social death.…
World After by Susan Ee
Joie
Warning: Spoilers ahead for those who have not read the first book, Angelfall. (If not, what are you waiting for, the apocalypse?! Just kidding…well, not really.) Had enough of the…
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
A few weeks ago, I picked up my paperback copy of Alice in Wonderland and smiled, but then I saw another version of this tale that I have read countless…
The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Karl Wolfenden
Why am I reviewing this book for a fantasy site? Because it’s fantasy, Jim, but not as you know it. Let me go back a few steps: I’m the father…
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
The conclusion to a very popular YA dystopian trilogy, Allegiant takes a different road to wrap up the series. Unlike the first two books written in Tris’s point of view,…
When YOU Were The Hero – An Adventure In Gamebooks
Steff Humm
Gamebooks aren’t something you see much of these days but back in the 80s and 90s they were doing a roaring trade all over the world as readers embraced the…
Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
After the delightful impression that Etiquette and Espionage left me with, of course I had to follow up with Curtsies and Conspiracies. Set in the same story universe as the…
White Cat by Holly Black
Alister Davison
I rarely purchase a book on impulse – I like to study the form, as it were, to have an idea of what I’m about to get into – but…