THE DARKNESS BEFORE THEM by Matthew Ward (The Soulfire Saga #1)
Matthew Ward’s The Darkness Before Them kicks off The Soulfire Saga and tells the tale of Kat, a young woman who turns to thievery because her father’s debt was forced upon her when he died. In this...
View ArticleKNOCK KNOCK, OPEN WIDE by Neil Sharpson
Irish Folklore and family secrets form the core of Neil Sharpson’s Knock Knock, Open Wide. Sharpson’s novel starts in 1979 on a dark rainy night, as Etain Lakin comes across a dead body on the road,...
View ArticleTHE TAINTED CUP by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, 1)
Robert Jackson Bennett has been blurring the genre lines since his first novels published a little over a decade ago (Mr. Shivers, 2010; The Company Man 2011, etc). His latest novel, The Tainted Cup...
View ArticleGODKILLER by Hannah Kaner (Book One of The Fallen Gods Trilogy)
When a novel begins with the death of an entire family at the hands of a god, that sets the tone for a novel. Especially when Kissen, the protagonist who witness the death of her family also loses her...
View ArticleA HAUNTING IN THE ARCTIC by C.J. Cooke
A doomed ship in the waters around Iceland that has experienced tragedy across several crews is at the center A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke. The Ormen is a whaling ship with a dark history,...
View ArticleTHE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD by Gwendolyn Kiste
A small neighborhood mysteriously disappears behind a strange veil, confounding local and national media. Twenty years later, the disappeared town is something of a novelty and the subject of...
View ArticleA FLAME IN THE NORTH by Lilith Saintcrow (Black Land’s Bane #1)
Lilith Saintcrow is one of the more prolific fantasy writers of the early 21st Century, her oeuvre ranges across a wide swath of speculative fiction branches including urban fantasy, steampunk, and...
View ArticleTHE BUTCHER of the FOREST by Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed’s The Butcher of the Forest is a dark fairy tale that wastes no time in getting the ball rolling. Veris Thorn is a young woman, a citizen of the Tyrant’s empire who is conscripted to...
View ArticleDRAGON MAGE by M.L. Spencer (Rivenworld #1)
I’ve been an Epic Fantasy reader for decades, cutting my proverbial teeth on Margaret Weis’s DragonLance series shortly after they were released, then Lord of the Rings, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Wheel...
View ArticleTHE SLAIN DIVINE by David Dalglish (Vagrant Gods #3)
The Vagrant has helped to lead a rebellion against the forces who wish to subjugate his home of Thanet. Lucavi, the God-Incarnate is ready to clench his fist one last time to decimate the populace and...
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