I was delighted to get an ARC of Wriggly Little Hands a couple of months ago, and dived in straight away to a book I’d heard good things about. My first cosy fantasy! Sends up some of the biggest fantasy novels in the Western canon! Lots of terrible jokes! And, dear readers, boy, did itContinue reading “Book Review – Wriggly Little Hands, by Alex Knight”
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Book Review – Sequela, by Cleland Smith
What a very unique, and at times hideous, tale! And the worst/best thing about it is that I can absolutely see the logic of where the seed of this idea came from. A near-future London in which all risk and reward from trading and business has virtually vanished results in City workers seeking ever moreContinue reading “Book Review – Sequela, by Cleland Smith”
Book Review: Centauri’s Shadow by Ross Garner
It takes a fair amount of skill, and, I’m sure, planning, to write a multi-timeline book telling the stories of two characters 40 years apart. Add to that they’re both embarking on a deep space mission to Proxima Centauri, one before and one after a devastating alien attack on Earth’s Mars colony, and things getContinue reading “Book Review: Centauri’s Shadow by Ross Garner”
Book Review: The Ruptured Sky
This is Jessica’s debut novel and I had so much fun reading it. After a slightly confusing start, and a bit of a time jump, we settled into a story of danger, dark magic, treachery, and royalty that got stronger and more compelling the further through the story we got. The stakes are huge, theContinue reading “Book Review: The Ruptured Sky”
Book Review: Chain-Gang All Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
If I could give this book 100 stars I would. Superficially, it is the story of Loretta Thurwor and Hamara Stacker, known to their fans as Blood Mama and Hurricane Stacks. They are convicted criminals in a near-future American prison system. A system that has introduced Hard Action Sports – or in other words, aContinue reading “Book Review: Chain-Gang All Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah”
Book Review: The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell
The Outcast Mage is a thoughtful, engaging story about the legacy of prejudice and bigotry on both a grand political and personal level. What happens to a culture generations after they are persecuted and banished? What happens to people who are constantly othered and excluded? And what if those same people wield an unmatchable power?Continue reading “Book Review: The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell”
Book Review: The Company of the Wolf, by David Wragg
Dave Wragg continues to be one of the best, and most criminally underrated, authors working in modern fantasy today.While I thoroughly enjoyed the Articles of Faith duology, with Tales of the Plains, Wragg has stepped up in terms of craft, storytelling, and sheer manic comedy.Not many people can make you cry on one page, andContinue reading “Book Review: The Company of the Wolf, by David Wragg”
Book review – Mistress of Lies, by K M Enright
Mistress of Lies is a fantastic first instalment in what promises to be a dark and delicious series.Shan, Samuel and Isaac are complex, flawed, and deeply relatable characters, moulded and broken and moulded again by the worlds they live in and the choices they make.Shan is the titular Mistress of Lies, gathering information and spinningContinue reading “Book review – Mistress of Lies, by K M Enright”
Book Review: Reign and Ruin, by J D Evans
Book 1 of the Mages of the Wheel series was so much fun I forgot to update my reading progress on Goodreads, forgot to do my day job, and (almost) forgot to eat. A brilliantly balanced political fantasy with a beautiful, heated, slow burn romance at its centre that was as tantalising as it wasContinue reading “Book Review: Reign and Ruin, by J D Evans”
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