Book Review: A Recipe for Disaster by Chris Durston Genre(s): Cozy Fantasy Book Synopsis: In the desert city of Achten Tan, built within the bones of a long-dead leviathan, there’s one truth everyone knows above all others: North Ribs Ribs is the best dang ribs restaurant in town. Rebellious teenager Old Crawman never wanted to […]

Book Review: Shadow of Hyperion by J.C.M. Berne Genre(s): Science Fiction / Space Opera Book Synopsis: Rohan once served the Empire. At great cost, he earned his freedom, and has since sought nothing more than to finish his shift in peace and figure out where his love life is going. Then he receives a message […]

Book Review: Powdered Oak and Seven Metals by Ryan Kurr Genre(s): Urban Fantasy Book Synopsis: After Nina senses a push from Spirit, she relocates her coven to Nova, Colorado, a small, snowy mountain town just outside Denver. But when Leo—her most powerful and dangerously gifted witch—decides to stray from the coven’s goal for motives of […]

Book Review: To A Fungus Unknown by William C. Tracy Genre(s): Science Fiction Book Synopsis: Forty years after landing on Lida, the colony still isn’t finished. Agetha has survived many more battles than she anticipated when she first landed on her new home planet. She’s older and wiser, has gained family and lost loved ones. […]

Book Review: Dragonfired by J. Zachary Pike Genre(s): Epic Fantasy / Satire Book Synopsis: The monarch wants him dead. A dragon’s torching the realm. Is his heroic gig about to be a critical catastrophe? Gorm Ingerson knows the king is a fink. With the land’s insidious ruler hell-bent on his destruction, the axe-wielding Dwarf berserker […]

Book Review: Bound in Blood by Mark Jonathan Runte Genre(s): Fantasy Book Synopsis: His brother abandoned him as a child with nothing more than a note. He returned fifteen years later with consequences for their family. Tristan never forgave him for that night on the beach. Or for the secrets Aran still keeps. Jamaica born, […]

Book Review: Lord and King by P.L. Stuart Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Book Synopsis: Finally Lord and King of Eastrealm, Othrun aims to restore the glory of his drowned homeland, Atalantyx. But dangerous warlords are determined to stop Othrun from rising to further power. Furthermore, Eastrealm’s ruler must confront internal forces that could tear his new […]

Book Review: Crown of Madness by Ryan G. Beaty Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Book Synopsis: The Order of the Grim Hunt, a group dedicated to the hunting and slaying of monsters, work to preserve the world and its inhabitants from the creatures of the dark. But what happens when the people become worse than the monsters? […]

Book Review: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin Genre(s): Science Fiction Book Synopsis: A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so […]

Book Review: Silver & Salt by Mark Jonathan Runte Genre(s): Fantasy / Mythological Fantasy Book Synopsis: Aran has always had his secrets, things he didn’t feel like sharing until his younger brother finally got up the nerve to ask about the past he never mentioned. At least until mid a few days in mid September […]