Book Review: The Cords that Bind by Branwen O’Shea Genre(s): Science Fiction / YA Book Synopsis: Don’t seek the truth. It already seeks you. After Eka and his new friends help secure an uneasy truce with the humans, their lives are irrevocably changed. He and Rana share a strange energetic link, putting him in constant […]

Book Review: The God Spear by L.L. Stephens Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Book Synopsis: It will take a god to awaken a god. The Heir to Essera’s throne, Handurin Stauberg-Randolph, has escaped from Sordan and sought out the Kheld people of Amallar. He hopes to gain them as allies, particularly against the murderous sorceror Nammuor. Dorilian […]

Book Review: Callus & Crow by D.B. Rook Genre(s): Fantasy / Western-inspired fantasy Book Synopsis: Can a path of blood lead to redemption?Is redemption enough to amend a wayward world? Morality and reality have shifted from their natural axis. Technology and ideology derive from the remnants of a world long dead and segregated by the […]

Book Review: The Reanimator’s Heart by Kara Jorgensen Genre(s): Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Fantasy Book Synopsis: A reluctant necromancer, a man killed before his time, and the crime that brings them together. Felipe Galvan’s life as an investigator for the Paranormal Society has been spent running into danger. Returning home from his latest case, Felipe […]

Book Review: Circe by Madeline Miller Genre(s): Fantasy / Mythological Fantasy Book Synopsis: In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child — not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals […]

Book Review: The Tidelings of Dras Sayve by C.B. Lansdell Genre(s): Science Fiction Book Synopsis: Maverick diplomat Emis Rindar travels to the northernmost clan in the Dras Channel, seeking the assistance of an old friend. After a lifetime of adventures across Knyadrea, a large moon, his next planned endeavour will be unlike anything he has […]

Book Review: Eve by Mark Jonathan Runte Genre(s): Urban Fantasy Book Synopsis: They’ve spent their lives looking over their shoulders – knowing their parents’ pasts and fearing a return to their birthplace until they lost the youngest of their sisters a year ago. One night shatters that tentative peace and sets Phoenix on edge, distracting […]

Book Review: The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Book Synopsis: On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held […]

Book Review: Motherland by Mark Jonathan Runte Genre(s): Urban Fantasy Book Synopsis: Kseniya and Semyon only ever knew loyalty to their country, until the death of a policeman forced them to run, raising their children as refugees and then as English. But their pasts were never far behind them, nor was caution for being what […]

Book Review: Pieces of Eight by Peter Hartog Genre(s): Science Fiction / Urban Fantasy Book Synopsis: How do you stop a killer who’s already dead? Some secrets never die. When the mutilated corpse of an ex-con is found in the bowels of an old church, haunting Biblical verses scrawled at the crime scene speak of […]