The Stephen King bell ringeth once more, this time for Billy Summers. It’s a more grounded tale for King, putting a hitman front and center without any direct supernatural interference. And, by jove, it works quite well! Billy Summers is a former Iraq War sniper who now works as a hitman. But he’s a good…
Stephanie Garber has written two young adult fantasy series that have enchanted me in the past, so there was no doubt I would pick up her first adult fantasy, Alchemy of Secrets. Garber’s fantastical fairytale dust is coating this story, but this time, the golden sparkles are shifting a familiar urban setting into a new…
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I’ll be the first to admit when I am wrong about something. For the longest time, I avoided The Sun Eater series because of its seemingly derivative nature. I continued my plunge into the series by picking up Demon in White by Christopher Ruocchio. I naively expected that I might buy in at this juncture,…
Continue reading ➞ Demon In White – A Reviewer Goes Down to Vorgossos
Cassandra Khaw is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers. I don’t know their specific writing approach, but everything of theirs is dripping with intentional vision that permeates down to the metaphors and similes. Theme isn’t just some intangible “je ne sais quoi” in their hands, but the mycorrhizal tendrils that support the structure of…
Continue reading ➞ The Library At Hellebore – Hellishly Good
I often find myself in a place of contention as I sit in many social circles around fantasy and discuss favorite books. This is because I think the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb is…fine. These books are often cited as readers’ favorite fantasy books of all time, and I didn’t resonate with them that strongly.…
Listen, if you haven’t already bought into The Philosopher Tyrants series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, I don’t know what you’re doing. We at QTL put both of those books as #1 for 2023 and 2024 respectively. Go out there, dig into City of Last Chances, gobble up House of Open Wounds, and set a vigil for…
Continue reading ➞ Days of Shattered Faith – Piecing It Back Together
If you’ve been unable to recover from that gut-punch of an ending to Holly Black’s Book of Night, then I anticipate you picked up the sequel, Thief of Night, as soon as humanly possible in September. Apparently, I like suffering and prolonged my misery to just now, and let me tell you, Black wanted you…
Despite my recent tendencies to avoid newer releases at their release, You Weren’t Meant to be Human, by Andrew Joseph White, had an idea that was a little too tantalizing to pass up. However, I feel I came away from it with more mixed feelings than I expected, especially since I so easily slipped into…
Continue reading ➞ You Weren’t Meant To Be Human – A Dark and Bloody Birth
Welcome to a somewhat mysterious review about a somewhat mysterious book. I would hazard a guess that most of you have heard of the incredible breakout success, The Will of the Many by James Islington. If you haven’t, great news, you have a justifiably popular book awaiting you with a number of cool stuff–check out…
Continue reading ➞ The Strength Of The Few – Triplicate Triumph
