I am not sure how we got here, but I find myself in the unenviable position of reviewing a book I simply did not enjoy at all. Today I am taking a look at the third and final entry in The Empire of the Wolf series, The Trials of Empire (by Richard Swan). I have…
Bulgarian folklore, murder mysteries, the great hunt, and more suffuse this new debut titled Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova. Today’s story follows a powerful witch named Kosara in the walled city of Chernograd. Chernograd is a cage of nightmares that exists to trap all sorts of evil and mischievous spirits on the far side of…
I am always a little unsure how to describe something like Service Model, as it is a book that lives more as a humorous opinion piece than a traditional story. The absurdism and commentary in Service Model add up to a fascinating 4th wall break that intentionally does away with the usual narrative barrier between…
2024 will always be the year I remember getting my dream Craft novel. For those unfamiliar, The Craft Sequence is a confusingly laid out set of books set in a modern fantasy setting about corporate employees using magic to fight gods and horrors in a terrifyingly broken world. It’s truly one of a kind. Gladstone…
If you haven’t been following the Paladins series by T. Kingfisher, I wouldn’t blame you. The series is published by a small studio that could do more marketing, especially because anyone who isn't reading this series is missing out. T. Kingfisher is continuing to gain more mainstream acclaim via her more traditionally published bangers, but…
I Cheerfully Refuse, by Leif Enger, is a book that caught my eye with its evocative and surreal cover. The blurb on the back makes the book sound transportive, a story about a musician on a rainy lake looking for the meaning of life. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is a strange…
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch came out over ten years ago, and ever since the massively popular Gentleman Bastard series ground to a standstill, there have been any number of debut heist books that generate tons of excitement as something to fill the gap. This comparison is almost always deeply unfair to debuts…
Continue reading ➞ The Silverblood Promise – He’s Just So Dumb
Recently I saw a TikTok of a booktube reviewer taking his friend to a bookstore with $100 and picking out a bunch of starter books for the friend. It was a cute video and it got me thinking what books I might try to buy with a set budget of $100 and the only goal…
Continue reading ➞ Booking On A Budget: Andrew’s $100 Book Buy
2024 must be my lucky year because I have gotten two new Greatcoats novels in the first quarter alone. Sebastian de Castell is on a role having just released Crucible of Chaos, a standalone Greatcoat story we loved, and now his first entry in a brand new Greatcoat saga: Play of Shadows. After years of…
Continue reading ➞ Play Of Shadows – Comedy, Tragedy, History, Mystery
Today we have an exciting novella called The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond. It is the first in a novella series following the exploits of a dragonslayer named Maddileh. She is a rare lady knight, and there aren’t many women in her line of work. This comes with the classic fantasy period piece sexism package…
