The Dragon Has Some Complaints, by John Wiswell, is a premise that is absolutely packed with clever ideas and promising concepts. Our main character is a once four, now three, headed hydra-esk dragon named Garrodigh, the Great Terror. I am assuming he takes inspiration from King Ghidorah, of Godzilla fame, from the name and design,…
Continue reading ➞ The Dragon Has Some Complaints – Hydralarious And Hydrafelt
I am trying to get to a lot more novellas this year, which means the lot of you will have to put up with some quickfire reviews about some quickfire books. Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz, is a short 200-page novella about a near-future American dystopia where a collection of abandoned service robots open a…
Today we have an interesting historical fantasy book by the name of The Magician’s Daughter, by H.G. Parry. Despite the back of the book describing a plot about the end times and the death of magic, this book had a closer feel to a slow-burn cozy read than a thriller. It focuses on a young…
Continue reading ➞ The Magician’s Daughter – Beautiful People With Nowhere To Go
I’m a sucker for time based shenanigans, whether it’s time loops or alternate histories I get an itch that needs to be scratched. So when a new book threatens me with some timey-wimey antics, I prefer to seize the day. Ren Hutchings answers the call with a different sort of temporal prank by having the…
Continue reading ➞ Under Fortunate Stars – A Little Too Bright For Me
