Joe Abercrombie is back with a new fantasy series to knock your socks off. The Devils is the first novel in a new series by the same name, and boy, does it start off with a bang. Everything you love about this masterful author is back with a vengeance (best-in-class characters, stunning action sequences, a…
Continue reading ➞ The Devils – League Of Extraordinary Bastards
Lesser-known indie author Brandon Sanderson is a Quill To Live favorite, and you should hop on the bandwagon before he gets big, folks! I’ve long praised Sanderson’s Cosmere and other works—today, I’m reviewing one of the latter. The Rithmatist is a standalone novel (with a promised but yet-to-be-seen sequel) with many of Sanderson’s storytelling stamps. …
The decadent debauchery of the 1920s has been put to bed, but Nghi Vo still has a story to tell. Vo returns to her Gatsby retelling with a companion novella, Don’t Sleep with the Dead, to expand on Nick Carraway’s story. I have avoided spoilers for The Chosen and the Beautiful in my review, but…
I haven’t had the chance to check out Tender Is The Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica’s international hit, so I figured I would treat myself with her latest outing. The Unworthy is a nightmarish fever dream in which one woman chronicles her time with a cloister of women in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by climate change. The…
Continue reading ➞ The Unworthy – Bask In The Light Of The Holy
We are walking, talking collections of memories. Every experience we have is in the past. That really awkward wave I gave to someone who was decidedly not waving at me? In the past. The time I called my teacher “mom” in front of my first-grade class? Past. Even the most present-feeling moments—the delicious explosion of…
The future is now, and it is bright and dazzling. Divinity 36, by Gail Carriger, reads like a next-generation YA staple that will sit undiscovered for a while and make huge waves when it goes mainstream with the youth. The name of the game is divinity. There is no difference between celebrity and religion, love…
King-a-ding-ding, everyone! The Stephen King bell tolls once more, which means I’m here to deliver a fresh book review. This time, we’ve got a recent King book, Fairy Tale, published in 2022. Does the book feature a scary threat lurking in the dark corners of the world? Is a small town in trouble? Will a…
Well, shut me in a dark and dreary house and call me mad because I finally found a gothic story that I love. Johanna van Veen’s latest novel, Blood on Her Tongue, proved to me that a story can honor all the typical gothic tale dressings while finding new, complicated ways to shock and disturb…
Continuing my quest into the deep reaches of space, I stumbled across this next book deep in a Reddit thread. Marrow, by Robert Reed, is the beginning of what I assume to be a strange journey into the hell that is the infinite cosmos. I mean this with love and respect, as I adored this…
Many people refer to the second book in a series as the sophomore slump. Bridge books tend to be extremely hard to write, as authors tend to know the start and the end of their stories but not how to connect the two. As such, it constantly impresses me that Robert Jackson Bennett’s middle novels…
Continue reading ➞ A Drop Of Corruption – Embrace The Shroud
