Furious Heaven, by Kate Elliott, is everything I wanted from a sequel and more. It is a brutal marathon of space conquest, populated by fun and deep characters that burn brighter than a blade in the forge. The worldbuilding is top-notch and just gorgeous to steep in. If you read my Unconquerable Sun review, expect…
Continue reading ➞ Furious Heaven – It’s All About Intergalactic Family
Fellow Cosmere-nauts, Brandon Sanderson fans, and DDF flight crew! Welcome to something a little different from The Quill To Live: a review of Dragonsteel 2023. Brandon Sanderson’s convention has grown since its inaugural year in Provo, Utah. Now, it occupies a huge wing of the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, packing thousands…
Kate Dramis sparked a lot of intrigue on TikTok by sharing snippets of the story she was writing. Her posts appeared on my FYP every now and then, and I casually followed Kate’s publishing journey until The Curse of Saints appeared. Although the glimpses I caught of the book sounded interesting, the end result was…
The Narrow Road Between Desires is a heavily revised and expanded version of Rothfuss’s The Lightning Tree, which originally ran in the Rogues anthology. Set in the Kingkiller Chronicle universe, this quick-hitter of a story follows Bast, the fae being who works for Kvothe at the Waystone Inn. The story most centers around Bast’s exploits…
Continue reading ➞ The Narrow Road Between Desires: Threading The Needle
I don’t know what is in the water this year, but I have read several books about women sailing treacherous seas. Rita Chang-Eppig’s story is the second one I’ve read in 2023 that explores the difficulties of being a woman, a mother, and a pirate. The first book, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi focused on…
Continue reading ➞ Deep As The Sky, Red As The Sea – Salt & Sorrow
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, by Samit Basu, is a captivating science fiction retelling of the classic Arabian tale of Aladdin. It is set in a futuristic cyberpunk city called Shantiport which was once a focus of culture, trade, and importance. Now the city has become a wasteland, a dumping zone for the universe, and a…
Continue reading ➞ The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport – Rubs You The Right Way
The Free People’s Village, by Sim Kern, is fun, sad, and uncomfortable in equal measure. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, and at times it comes off as preachy, but I could not pry my eyes away from it. Al Gore has won the 2000 election and declared war on Climate Change. Initiatives introduced…
Continue reading ➞ The Free People’s Village – No Place I’d Rather Be
Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer concept album has been one of my top listens of the last year (despite being released in 2018). My plunge into the larger Janelle Monáe media-verse only got deeper from there. I thoroughly enjoyed her stint in Knives Out 2, and I explored her entire discography (spoiler: bangers galore). Around this…
After finishing book two in The Last Binding series, I couldn’t wait for Robin and Edwin to return triumphantly in the final book. While both men are present in A Power Unbound, they once again step to the side and let other characters lead the charge. Our two new but familiar leading men, Lord Jack…
Here we are closing out another Anthony Ryan series— the man is a writing machine. Today we are here to talk about The Traitor, the third book in Ryan’s The Covenant of Steel series. This brick of a book tells the end of the story of Alwyn the scribe, a man of many hats who…
