Book Review: The Atlas Paradox – Olivie Blake

Author: Olivie Blake | Title: The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas #2) | Genre: Fantasy | Publisher: Tor BooksPublication Date: October 25, 2022 | Hardcover: 400 pages Six magicians. Two rivalries. One researcher. And a man who can walk through dreams. All must pick a side: do they wish to preserve the world—or destroy it? In this electric sequel to the viral sensation, The Atlas Six, the …

Book Review: Babel – R.F. Kuang

Author: R.F. Kuang | Title: Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' RevolutionGenre: Fantasy | Publisher: Harper VoyagerPublication Date: August 23rd, 2022 | Hardcover: 544 pages Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828, Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains …

Book Review: The First Binding – R.R. Virdi

Author: R.R. Virdi | Title: The First Binding (Tales of Tremaine #1) | Genre: Fantasy | Publisher: GollanczPublication Date: August 16th, 2022 | Hardcover: 832 pages All legends are born of truths. And just as much lies. These are mine. Judge me for what you will. But you will hear my story first. I buried the village of Ampur under a mountain of ice and snow. …

Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab

Author: V.E. Schwab | Title: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | Genre: Urban Fantasy | Publisher: Titan BooksPublication Date: October 6th, 2020 | Hardcover: 560 pages France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that …

Book Review: Red Sister – Mark Lawrence

Author: Mark Lawrence | Title: Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor #1) | Genre: Fantasy | Publisher: Harper VoyagerPublication Date: March 27th, 2017 | Hardcover: 469 pages At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword …

Book Review: Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo

As if this book came out so long ago, and I just never got around to organizing my thoughts to write this somewhat coherent review of a book I loved so much! Until now... Author: Leigh Bardugo | Title: Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) | Genre: Fantasy | Publisher: Gollancz Publication Date: October 8th, 2019 …

Book Review: A Deadly Education – Naomi Novik

I'm extremely grateful to my past-self for making review notes after reading books because it's been a while since I read this but finally I'm getting out a blog post about it. Just to also say thank you to to Del Rey for the NetGalley arc, and for sending me a finished copy to celebrate …

Book Review: Breach of Peace – Daniel B. Greene

Author: Daniel B. Greene Title: Breach of Peace (Lawful Times #1) Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Crime Pages: 140 Overall Rating: 3/5 Admittedly, and as some of you may have noticed, Horror and Crime are not genres that often appear on my blog, but as this was the work of the wonderful Daniel Greene, a reviewer who …

Book Review: Sabriel – Garth Nix

Author: Garth Nix Title: Sabriel (The Abhorsen Chronicles #1) Publisher: Hot Key Books Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult Pages: 400 Overall Rating: 4/5 Dark Secrets, Deep Love, and Dangerous MagicSent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who …

SPOTLIGHT REVIEW: A FOOL’S HOPE – MIKE SHACKLE

War takes everything. From Tinnstra, it took her family and thrust her into a conflict she wanted only to avoid. Now her queen's sole protector, she must give everything she has left to keep Zorique safe. It has taken just as much from Jia's revolutionaries. Dren and Jax - battered, tortured, once enemies themselves - …