SPOILERS FOR GIDEON THE NINTH BELOW. Something about the absolute animosity between Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus lets you know…these two crazy kids love each other to death. That something isn’t the vague, zeitgeisty knowledge I had about the novel before ever picking it up (thanks, blogosphere!); nor was it an errant turn left down... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/y-cNJSB6wpE My first game of Dune: Spice Wars proved to me this title is a promising entry into the real-time strategy genre. While there’s plenty yet to add before the game comes out of Early Access, my first impressions are favourable. Allow me to expand: this game succeeds as both a Dune game and as... Continue Reading →
Book 1 review here | Book 2 review here https://youtu.be/18TywmTuv7E Series: The Black Iron Legacy # 3Published by: OrbitGenre: Dark FantasyReview Format: paperbackPurchased Copy. The third novel in the Black Iron Legacy series, The Broken God awakened my slumbering love for dark, heart-wrenching fantasy. Following the Tripartite Armistice that saw Guerdon divided in three influence... Continue Reading →
Hullo, lovely people! It’s time to do something I really mean to make a habit of – have meant to, for an entire year! It’s not gone well. Anyway: Trope Check returns for Eyes of the Void, following a year-long hiatus after the first book in The Final Architecture was released. I’ll do a list... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/7KUHU75NvP8 Published by: TORGenre: Science fiction, space operaSeries: The Final Architecture (#2 of many, hopefully)Pages: 593 pagesFormat: paperback The sequel to 2021’s Shards of the Earth was among my most-awaited sci-fi titles of this year. When I read Shards I fell in love with its characters, a mishmash of memorable scoundrels who made for one... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/mdM4S80F-7c Published by: Ace Genre: FantasyPages: 416 pagesFormat: hardcover Endings are damnably hard to nail—especially when the kind we’re talking about is the culmination not just of a trilogy but of disparate elements woven throughout an entire fifteen-book oeuvre. I cannot judge too well on the latter, having read only half of Mark Lawrence’s novels; but... Continue Reading →
Hullo, everyone! Did you miss me? You didn't, did you? Ah, that's fine! Listen, I've been away for a wee while, but that's all about to change because, drumrolls please...The Summer of Sequels is here! "But, my lord..." I hear you ask. "Is that legal?" To this I say, https://i.redd.it/7arw2k9hetty.gif This absolutely made-up non-event has... Continue Reading →
A Star Wars manga! Now I can happily retire and say to myself, I've seen it all. It would be funny, wouldn't it, if the thing to finally get me into manga was a Star Wars product? What a shame it isn't so; that said, I had a fun enough time with The Edge of... Continue Reading →
Published by: OrbitGenre: Epic FantasyPages: 656Format: ebookReceived free arc copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review https://youtu.be/3-UcuXBPRiI All sequels should accomplish what John Gwynne’s Hunger of the Gods has. That’s to say, Gwynne’s latest expands the world and characters in such a way as to make The Shadow of the Gods appear a... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/B7nV20cD6ec This book has got me in a bind. It’s easy to relegate it to one of two neat classifications: either a straight-faced satire that takes the piss out of the military-industrial complex; or else, a fully realised celebration of the serving man’s fraternity, of the sacrifice of the individual for the collective’s greater good,... Continue Reading →
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