Spoilers ahead for the Ninth House series. The finale to the Ninth House series has come, screeching like a bat out of hell, refusing to go down without a fight. Center of the universe Alex Stern and golden boy with horns Darlington have joined forces to handle a growing demon problem, and it’s everything I…
Continue reading ➞ Dead Beat – I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again
Bodies of Magic, by Freya Marske, is a fun, clever book that’s a little rough around the edges but will be a new all-time favorite for a specific kind of reader. The book is an explosively successful mix of popular subgenres (medical drama, dark academia, and murder mystery) that feels different from many of the…
Continue reading ➞ Bodies Of Magic – Magical Medical Murder Mystery
When tickets become available to the outlandish Sanderson worlds I've come to love, I'm often the first to get my ticket punched. I'm a known worldhopper, partial to his Cosmere work, but I'll pick up pretty much anything Sanderson writes. He's among the best in the business today, so his works are typically an easy…
Oh yeah folks, it’s time for some more politically tinged science fiction. Wait, what am I saying, the genre is inherently political. I had yet to purchase a ticket to the Richard Swan show, but when I heard his latest, The Infinite State, is about trying to jumpstart a democracy while living in an authoritarian…
Adam Roberts is quickly becoming one of my favorite science fiction writers working today. I know I’ve only reviewed one of his novels, Purgatory Mount, but I’ve read two others, and as your about to find out, three of his novellas. I’m trying something a little different as I try to talk about three thematically…
Continue reading ➞ Adam Roberts – Stealing My Heart, One Novella at a Time
Ten years! Welcome to the tenth anniversary of The Quill to Live's best books of the year list! 2025 has been a banger year for science fiction, fantasy, and horror. One of the strongest years of the decade, 2025 was filled with standout books in multiple genres. There were actually so many interesting releases, sequels,…
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
Short, sweet, and to the point: this is one of my favorite books I have ever read. It feels very odd to be reviewing the ninth book in a series, but Dead Hand Rule is a strong contender for my best book of 2025, and that is saying something in a year that is so…
I am delighted to announce that The Quill to Live will celebrate its 10th anniversary this week (Thursday, March 27th)! Per this momentous occasion, the writers have been putting together a series of pieces that celebrate the site in both serious and silly ways. Over the next two weeks, we will publish tributes, lists, and…
Do you know what is not a wise decision? Picking up an enormous ten-book series when you are a reviewer trying to get out weekly content. But as everyone, absolutely everyone, says: wisdom is for fools. So today, I am here to talk about Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shadows of the Apt, the first and largest series…
