This story does manage to do a few new things with portal fantasy, which is remarkable in a genre that has such a long history and contains Narnia and Alice in Wonderland. I was able to predict several parts of the ending pretty early in the book, but there are times when knowing what is […]
Honestly, I feel like this book is my reward for all the Eddings, Brooks, Goodkind, et al, that I spent reading as a child. If you spent a childhood reading as many high fantasy hero’s journeys as you could get your hands on… this book is redemption and reward. If you ever read any of […]
I’m sorry to have missed posting this before the release date, because now I have robbed you of several days in which you could have been reading this book. Road to Ruin is an adrenaline rush with an absolutely unique setting. The desert is almost a character in itself. It is filled with deadly storms […]
Here I go again, reading and reviewing a book that is not fantastical in any way, unless you count the fortune teller who started the whole thing. Our narrator is Annabelle Adams, great-niece to the extremely wealthy and paranoid Frances Adams. She’s called out to a sleepy country village for a meeting about her inheritance. […]
Godkiller was a book that I loved. It was about quests, and found families, and delicious revenge. And yet, if Godkiller was the pebble, then Sunbringer is the avalanche following right behind. Inevitable and full of characters with hard choices, I can’t help but think of it as a metaphor for US politics. First there’s […]
I’m not sure I’ve ever reviewed a book from this series before, but that’s not because I don’t love it. In fact, it’s probably in my top 3 favorite series of all time. Seanan McGuire’s mind is as methodical and bloody as something from a Saw movie (I assume… I’m too chicken to watch those). […]
There are only two small reasons why I’m not declaring this book my book of the year: 1) it’s January and 2) I technically read this last year. But if this volume doesn’t end up on a ton of ‘best of’ lists this year, then it’ll be a travesty. Here’s my summary of the book […]
It is a fact well-known that an exiled Faerie prince on the run from his homicidal mother must be in want of… a cat. Okay, maybe not, but that’s the goal in Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. Wendell Bambleby is on the hunt for a door back to his own kingdom of Faerie, and […]
You simply can’t have read urban fantasy for any length of time and not have encountered Diana Pharaoh Francis. I’ve seen her name for years but never had an excuse to read anything. Not for lack of desire, but through a very, very long reading list. That was, until I discovered RJ Blain and went […]