Welcome back to another Quill to Live year-end book roundup. Nine years we have been doing this, so please get excited for our ten-year anniversary this coming March! 2024 has been an interesting year for science fiction, fantasy, and horror. This year, the QTL team decided to slow down a bit. We diversified our reads,…
This year I have read a lot of books that feature revolutions. Adrian Tchaikovsky is no slouch when it comes to exploring this topic, but delivers a bigger punch than usual with his latest, Alien Clay. I immediately latched onto its premise, seeing it as a spiritual successor to Cage of Souls, a book that…
When I attended Holly Black’s book tour earlier this year, she shared that Wren, her main character in The Prisoner’s Throne series, was hard to write because she wouldn’t “protag.” Meaning that Wren did not want to participate in the events unfolding around her, which made her a very interesting character to follow. Well, I…
Continue reading ➞ The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt – Dig It
Jason Pargin, also known as David Wong, is an author we reviewed a while back but haven’t returned to in some time. I recently got curious as to what he has been up to and found that he put out an entire trilogy while I wasn’t looking. Zoey Ashe is a dystopian cyberpunk trilogy about…
Continue reading ➞ Zoey Ashe – Gets Reviewed By The Quill To Live
When I initially read the summary of Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli, I was not interested. Maybe I was off the heels of a bad book when I first encountered it, but when I rediscovered the book a couple of weeks ago, I decided to give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised to find…
A little side project I have been pursuing is diving into fantasy series from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s, to see if I can dredge up some hidden gems to recommend. I don’t often see many series from these decades recommended to me and I thought I might do the generous work of sifting through…
Strap in because Metal From Heaven by August Clarke is one dark, mean, but spirited fantasy novel that takes a swing at capitalism and lands its fists. Marney Honeycutt just watched everyone she knew get cut down in the streets of Ignavia City. Industry Yann Chauncey heard the workers cry out for better conditions and…
Continue reading ➞ Metal From Heaven – Explosively Fantastic
A little while ago I read Africa Risen, a collection of short stories featuring authors from Africa focusing on the African Diaspora. It was a wonderful collection with a few authors I wanted to keep track of. One of whom was Tlotlo Tsmaase, who wrote a story called “Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition).” So when I…
John Gwynne’s The Bloodsworn Saga has come to a close with its epic finale, The Fury of the Gods. This completed trilogy takes on Norse mythology and incorporates it into an epic fantasy filled with blockbuster qualities like huge monster fights, intense sword fighting, epic twists and betrayals, dragons, and good old-fashioned Viking shenanigans. Unfortunately,…
Continue reading ➞ The Fury of the Gods – Indifference Of Mortals
Ask not what Stephen King can do for you—ask what you can do for Stephen King. That’s the question JFK put to us during his 1961 inaugural address. Here and now, we have the answer: read 11/22/63. It’s the latest book in my Stephen King backlog, and it sits in a somewhat unique place among…
