Skin Game – a cover
Skin GameDresden Files #15By Jim Butcher Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day….Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful. He doesn’t know the half of it…. Mab has […]
Traitor’s Blade – a review
Traitor’s BladeGreatcloaks Book 1By Sebastien De Castell Falcio is the first Cantor of the Greatcoats. Trained in the fighting arts and the laws of Tristia, the Greatcoats are travelling Magisters upholding King’s Law. They are heroes. Or at least they were, until they stood aside while the Dukes took the kingdom, and impaled their King’s […]
Half A King – cover
I’m a little late with this one but can I just say – I am loving this cover! Not sure if this is for the US or the UK, or both, but regardless this is the one I want on my bookshelf. Covers like this make me try and imagine what the cover for my […]
Mark T. Barnes answers Ten Terrifying Questions!
1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born, raised and schooled in Sydney, Australia. Nothing terribly exciting, or controversial. I’m the eldest of five children, raised in a loving and supportive environment, so there’s not a lot of baggage […]
Dreamwalker – a review
DreamwalkerBy C.S. Friedman All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica’s dreams into his games. But now someone is asking about those […]
Brian Staveley answers Ten Terrifying Questions
Brian kindly answered these questions for my last SF & F Buzz from Booktopia (you can sign up for the monthly Buzz edited by moi here) and just in case you missed I am pimping it. 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? […]
The Emperor’s Blades – a review
The Emperor’s BladesThe Unhewn Throne Book OneBy Brian Staveley The circle is closing. The stakes are high. And old truths will live again . . . The Emperor has been murdered, leaving the Annurian Empire in turmoil. Now his progeny must bury their grief and prepare to unmask a conspiracy. His son Valyn, training for […]
Moon’s Artifice
Moon’s ArtificeThe Empire of a Hundred Houses: Book OneBy Tom Lloyd In a quiet corner of the Imperial City, Investigator Narin discovers the result of his first potentially lethal mistake. Minutes later he makes a second. After an unremarkable career Narin finally has the chance of promotion to the hallowed ranks of the Lawbringers – […]
The Obsidian Heart – a review
The Obsidian HeartEchoes of Empire Book 2By Mark T. Barnes A plot to overthrow the Shrīanese Federation has been quashed, but the bloody rebellion is far from over…and the struggle to survive is just beginning. Warrior-mage Indris grows weary in his failed attempts to thwart the political machinations of Corajidin, and faces the possibility of […]
The Republic of Thieves: A Review
THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVESThe Gentleman Bastard Sequence Book 3by Scott Lynch After their adventures on the high seas, Locke and Jean are brought back to earth with a thump. Jean is mourning the loss of his lover and Locke must live with the fallout of crossing the all-powerful magical assassins the Bonds Magi.It is a […]
