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
Josiah Bancroft is back with a new entry in his Hexologists series. Book two is called A Tangle of Time, and it appears that Bancroft is aiming for a more episodic take on his fantasy mystery series, very reminiscent of how the original Sherlock Holmes stories were organized. Iz and Warren Wilby have found themselves…
Continue reading ➞ The Hexologists: A Tangle of Time – Discordant Chronomancy
Another day, another review from my local bookstore’s summer reading challenge! The category was “A Cozy Fantasy,” and the book was Rebecca Thorne’s Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea. I’ve read and reviewed my fair share of zeitgeisty cozy fantasies. This one didn’t particularly break the mold, but it was pleasant enough. Reyna, a former Queen’s…
Continue reading ➞ Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea – Bland Brew
Most would walk 500 miles, but would you run 1,000 to see if the lies catch up with a nameless woman on the run? The Road of Bones by Demi Winters follows a naive young woman who inadvertently joins a group of Vikings as they go on a dangerous journey. She hopes to find safety,…
Continue reading ➞ The Road Of Bones – Taking The Scenic Route
This won’t be a “typical” Cole Rush book review. You won’t find a score at the end of it, and I’ll start things off not with a plot summary, but a short plea: just read the book. I’ll also advise you, as many people advised me, to read this story in the “wrong” order. If…
Let’s close the spooky season with an out-of-this-world but extremely relatable horror novella, Walking Practice, by author Dolki Min. It’s funny, it’s gory, and it’s going to stir up your emotions and encourage examination of love, identity, and how we connect as humans. After crash-landing on Earth, a solitary alien has spent years perfecting its…
Continue reading ➞ Walking Practice – Survival Of The Fittest
Sherlock, but she's a crotchety elderly woman dragging around a himbo Watson? Sign me up. That is the premise of The Last Vigilant by Mark A. Latham. A debut book and the first in a trilogy, The Last Vigilant is a mystery fantasy that harkens back to the golden age of sword and sorcery. Calling…
Continue reading ➞ The Last Vigilant – Sword And Sherlockery
