I am disappointed that I was unable to get to An Illusion of Thieves, by Cate Glass, sooner - as it likely would have made our best of 2019 list. The first book in the Chimera series, this (ironically) sneaky book has slipped under the radar for many this year, which is a shame. While…
Continue reading ➞ An Illusion Of Thieves – A Garden Of Larceny
So 2019 is rolling to a close and we have started eyeing books coming out in 2020 to build our to-do lists. However, while building our reading schedule for next year we realized that we should probably do a wrap-up on our Dark Horse Initiative 2019. P.S., you may notice we have changed this list…
Sometimes it’s not a bad thing to judge a book by its cover. I occasionally see cover art so striking that I want to buy the book just for display, regardless of whether the content is all that good. Christian McKay Heidicker’s novel Scary Stories for Young Foxes is one such book. With expressive and…
Continue reading ➞ Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The Name Is A Trap It’s Actually Scary
Our second-place book in The Quill To Live best-of-2019 list was The Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern. However, given that the book was released about a week before we had to make the list, we unfortunately did not have a chance to review it yet. Now, we are remedying that and are here to give…
Continue reading ➞ The Starless Sea – Beauty And Dreams Personified In A Body Of Water
Originally, I was going to open this review with a roast of the book titles because they are so long, but honestly, given how appropriate the names are and how boring most fantasy book titles are I have no ground to stand on. Okay, so today I want to spend some time talking about a…
Continue reading ➞ The Light Of All That Falls/The Licanius Trilogy – A Time-Travel Cage Match
I’ve had no small amount of difficulty deciding how to rate this book. Cold Storage, by David Koepp, is a horror novel that essentially takes Richard Preston’s nonfiction book, The Hot Zone, and jazzes it up with sentient mushrooms instead of Ebola. It’s a choice that should have fallen firmly within my wheelhouse but, spoiler alert, my…
Continue reading ➞ Cold Storage: More Like Lukewarm but Still Comfortable
Our best of 2019 list is out, but that doesn’t mean 2019 is done giving us fantastic reads. We always roll December releases over into the next year in order to get the list out, and it can sometimes result in the powerful end-of-year releases not getting the accolades they deserve until the following year.…
Continue reading ➞ Blood Of Empire – An Empirically Sanguine End To The Year
Welcome back to another end of the year list! 2019 is rumbling to a close, which means it’s once again time to talk about the best books of the year. This year was a tough one for us. With our expanded set of reviewers, we got through a much larger number of new books and…
