The Combat Codes, by Alexander Darwin, is the latest in a series of new-age magical school stories with fresh settings and ideas on what constitutes a school. In this case, the reader will find themselves presented with a mashup of MMA fighting and your typical zero-to-hero schoolboy coming-of-age story. Darwin’s injection of passion for gritty…
Continue reading ➞ The Combat Codes – MMA (Magical Masters in Asskicking)
I was looking around on the internet last year for a list of fantasy recommendations from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s and found the results wanting. Since I have a number of pocket recommendations from those decades already I decided that this year I would make a guide myself. But first, I wanted to…
Continue reading ➞ The Belgariad – Pawns, Prophecy, and Polgara
It’s 2023 and we are finally getting another Craft novel by Max Gladstone. For those unfamiliar, The Craft Sequence is a confusingly laid out set of books set in a modern fantasy setting about corporate employees using magic to fight gods and horrors in a terrifyingly broken world. I feel comfortable saying the setting is…
The Empire of the Wolf, by Richard Swan, is certainly one of the more unique and original fantasy series hitting the shelves right now. I found myself reading the second installment, The Tyranny of Faith, recently and it continues to be a story that constantly defies my expectations. It is a series that walks you…
The Ring-Sworn Trilogy, by Howard Andrew Jones, is an excellent series that is flying under the radar. When The Goddess Wakes is the third and final installment of the series. I have reviewed the two previous books, For the Killing of Kings (which was a top pick the year it came out) and Upon the…
Continue reading ➞ When The Goddess Wakes – Stop Sleeping On This Series
