Review: In the Tower of the Witching Tree
In the Tower of the Witching TreeVarkas Chronicles – Short tales Book 1By Deck Matthews Shade is a master of the confidence game. But when her latest play falls apart, forcing her to flee from the local guards, Shade finds herself climbing through a window at the top of a mysterious tower. What she finds […]
Review: Revenant Winds
Revenant WindsThe Tainted Cabal Book OneBy Mitchell Hogan As a secret cabal schemes to awaken an evil thought defeated millennia ago, the lives of three unlikely heroes are fated to converge: Aldric, a veteran priest and sorcerer, who seeks acceptance from the church that shuns him. On the brink of their approval, he receives a […]
Review: Red Sister
Red SisterBook of the Ancestor 1By Mark Lawrence At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate […]
Review: Salvation
SalvationThe Salvation Sequence 1By Peter F. Hamilton Know your enemy – or be defeatedAD 2204An alien shipwreck is discovered on a planet at the very limits of human expansion – so Security Director Feriton Kayne selects a team to investigate. The ship’s sinister cargo not only raises bewildering questions, but could also foreshadow humanity’s extinction. […]
Review: An Echo of Things to Come
An Echo of Things to ComeThe Licanius Trilogy Book TwoBy James Islington As shadows rise, a darkness awakesAn amnesty has been declared for all Augurs – finally allowing them to emerge from hiding and openly oppose the dark forces massing against Andarra. However, as Davian and his new allies hurry north towards the ever-weakening Boundary, fresh […]
Review: The Game Bird
The Game BirdBy Aidan R Walsh An evil is growing. The Realm is under attack. A leviathan has risen from the depths and is destroying the fleets that feed Stormhaven. Stuck ashore and drowning in debt, Captain James Faulkner resolves to hunt the sea monster and claim the enormous bounty on the beast. Sophia Blake’s […]
Review: The Shadow of What Was Lost
The Shadow of What Was LostLicanius Trilogy Book OneBy James Islington OLD POWERS AWAKEN It has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. Now, those who once served them – the Gifted – are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion’s Four Tenets, vastly limiting their own powers. As a […]
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai
Twelve KingsThe Song of the Shattered Sands Book OneBy Bradley P. Beaulieu In the cramped west end of Sharakhai, the Amber Jewel of the Desert, eda fights in the pits to scrape a living. She, like so many in the city, pray for the downfall of the cruel, immortal Kings of Sharakhai, but she’s never […]
Lotus Blue
Lotus Blue By Cat Sparks Seventeen-year-old Star and her sister Nene are orphans, part of a thirteen-wagon caravan of nomadic traders living hard lives travelling the Sand Road. Their route cuts through a particularly dangerous and unforgiving section of the Dead Red Heart, a war-ravaged desert landscape plagued by rogue semi-sentient machinery and other monsters […]
The Last Mortal Bond
The Last Mortal BondThe Unhewn ThroneBy Brian Staveley Death is near, armies are gathered, and the future rests on a knife-edge. The Annurian Empire is losing a war on two fronts – and it’s unclear who is in command. Adare is stationed in the thick of battle and now calls herself Emperor. However, she can’t […]
