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: 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: 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”