Remember when I said that Killing the Children isn't only horror? Reading this second volume, it's kind of hard not to bonk myself on the head, because the horror elements, my friends, are nothing if not manifold. Let's get this out of the way: Should you pick up the second volume of this comic book?... Continue Reading →
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 →
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4FZcNA62LQ Published by: Self-Published, recently acquired by TORGenre: Slice of Life FantasyPages: 318Format: ebookPurchased Copy for my Kindle from Amazon The blogosphere has been abuzz with talk of Travis Baldree’s debut, Legends & Lattes, and for good reason. Slice of life stories are character-driven to their core—no wonder, then, that Baldree’s novel is such a... Continue Reading →
Wyrd & Wonder, the month-long celebration of all things fantasy, is starting in just three weeks! This is the first time I'll ever take a direct part in the event--I hope to bring to it a discussion of fantastic fantasy games and novels, as well as some humorous pieces in the vein of my Mordor... Continue Reading →
Published by: Bloomsbury Genre: Historical FictionPages: 288 pagesFormat: audiobookPurchased my copy from the Rich Humanoid’s Audio-Book-Store-Place. Author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents” - that ability to cut through... Continue Reading →
Admit it! You thought I'd miss the whole March book blog event--and I nearly did. But fret not, Reader, I've got you covered with a long overdue look at a sequel that flew past me last year. It's time to gush over Andrea Stewart's Bone Shard Emperor! A Sequel Worthy of the Name When I... Continue Reading →
Previous | Very obvious spoilers ahead! My fellow adventurer Kosara and I have finished the second part of Red Sister – and boy, do we have some thoughts! Read along as we try to make sense of the second half of this riveting fantasy novel. K: So, since last time we started with a brief... Continue Reading →
The Grimoire Reliquary 