Category: Book Reviews
Shaun Hamill burst onto the genre scene with A Cosmology of Monsters in 2019, about which I said, “Hamill impressed the hell out of…
The first book of this duology, Infinity Gate, was perhaps my favourite read of 2023, so this second part has a great deal to…
It has been roughly three years since Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief released to great acclaim (including a very positive review from yours truly). …
Titan Books are rereleasing the 24 books of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a unified set. This is the fifth, following Captain America: The…
Bulgarian/Balkan myth comes alive (or undead) in Foul Days by Genovena Dimova, which is the first part of her Witch’s Compendium of Monsters duology…
I have always fancied travelling on one of those luxury train journeys. Stepping into the footsteps left by explorer Michael Palin (or perhaps less…
So: here’s a story about how it took me 44 years to finally get a story collection. Quick background for context. It is 1980.…
Historical fiction readers, if I said “Regency novel” to you, what comes to your mind? Elegant dresses, lavish house parties, coffee house meetings, callous…
With her latest, S T Gibson has gone all Witches of Eastwick… set in modern-day Boston, Evocation tells of an occult elite, working under…
Titan Books are rereleasing the 24 books of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a unified set. This is the fourth, following Iron Man 2,…
In the year 2180, Lieutenant Selene Genji of the Unified Fleet sees Earth destroyed, despite the Unified Fleet’s attempt to stop it. The resultant…
Horror novels about horror has become a genre unto itself in recent years, self-aware stories are often popular. Novels like Grady Hendrix’s The Final…
Time travel is one of the most– if not the most – science-fictional tropes of all time. Thanks mainly to good ol’ H. G.…
One part caper, one part sword and sorcery adventure, one part murder mystery, The Silverblood Promise is the debut novel from James Logan and…
It’s been 34 years since the novel Jurassic Park was published. Many movies and sequel novels later, Douglas Preston writes a great blockbuster summer-beach-kind-of…
Sparks of Bright Matter is a novel combining descriptions of 18th century London with rural Ireland, the search for a missing object of importance…
The Vagrant has helped to lead a rebellion against the forces who wish to subjugate his home of Thanet. Lucavi, the God-Incarnate is ready…
January Stirling is a ballet dancer, one of the principal dancers of London’s Royal Ballet living in a future (three hundred years or so)…
I’ve been an Epic Fantasy reader for decades, cutting my proverbial teeth on Margaret Weis’s DragonLance series shortly after they were released, then Lord…
I’m not really sure why, but I do like a circus story. Perhaps it’s that feeling created by reading Ray Bradbury Weird Tales many…