https://youtu.be/hZGIqxieCRU Necrod is a place of nightmares vanquished and persevering. This city, covered by the "eternal greenish gloom" of its necromiasma, makes for the central locale in Gareth Hanrahan's The Sword Defiant, an ambitious and trope-defying fantasy novel that will appeal to fans of Tolkien, role-playing gamers, and fantasy enthusiasts well outside those two groups. If... Continue Reading →
Tsalmoth is an exciting new addition to the perennial urban fantasy series Vlad Taltos.
https://youtu.be/H14T15uIspU Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga has gained the status of a modern classic over its publication between 2017 and 2021. I haven't read it yet, and so can tell you, hand over heart, Untethered Sky is a triumphant introduction to Lee's work. Chock-full of compelling characters, this novella exudes a love and respect for... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/9OJ8tWgmLQA K. J. Parker is a master of voice. His Siege Trilogy accents this mastery, providing the reader with narrators with personalities large enough they threaten to drown out most other voices. How to Rule an Empire and Get Away With It, the middle book in this trilogy, has to contend with a difficult task:... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/tiysvCXILfw Another fast-paced novella courtesy of Alastair Reynolds, Slow Bullets makes for one of those reads you can't step away from. After reading the first scene in the library, where I picked this title up, I sat down in the evening and didn't stop reading until there was no more Slow Bullets left to read.... Continue Reading →
Because all you needed was another Unsouled review https://youtu.be/RAVjoVfBWMI How about literature as comfort food? Sometimes you need to unwind in-between serious, demanding reads, to lose yourself in a world whose stakes, while not low by any means, don't hit quite as deep as they otherwise might. For me, Unsouled, the first book in Will... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/C4pZKdOuNv4 Katherine "Kitty/Kate" Pryde and Emma Frost are two of my absolute favourite X-Men*. The mere suspicion that they might take center stage is invitation enough to pick this hardcover up. That their relationship is one of the driving forces behind this book is, well, chef's kiss. Kitty ("Oh, and…call me Kate") Pryde has a... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6_MExqxvyY I delight in the way in which time travel paradox is rendered across the 173 pages of Alastair Reynolds' Permafrost. This novella is the kind of read that engulfs you, covers you in a sheet of ice that won't let go until you're well and clear; but I assure you, even with its covers... Continue Reading →
"Legends and Lattes: Best Latte I've Ever Had"The Multidimensional Dark Lord (Responds also to "Unintentionally Helpful Villain")ThuneFantasy Yelp Member Since ██████Review: Legends and LattesReview Posted On: The Seventeenth Blood Moon On The Pious Man's Head10/5 stars After hearing about the proprietor of this novel establishment, the orc Viv, I expected a good time. I got... Continue Reading →
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