The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee is the tale of a corporate samurai on a space colony fulfilling their last mission before they retire, which on this colony means walking to their…
It’s no secret that we at No Page Unturned love Jenn Lyons and everything she writes. Her latest standalone novel, Green and Deadly Things, is no exception and still managed to be a distinct…
When you’ve read a lot of novels, or this could likely apply to a lot of other media too, your brain starts to recognize the patterns of storytelling that will lead to certain outcomes,…
When an Anthony Ryan book comes out, I read it. So imagine my excitement when a sequel to The Covenant of Steel series, a trilogy beloved by me, was announced. When I began the…
Brigands & Breadknives, the third book in the Legends and Lattes series by Travis Baldree continues where Bookshops & Bonedust left off with Viv inviting her friend and bookshop owner Fern the ratkin to…
Do you know the superstition about saying “Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” first thing on the first of the month? No? Now you do. There’s really not much more to it, other than the fact that…
Snake-Eater was going to ruin something, I knew that going in. A House With Good Bones ruined ladybugs. The Hollow Places gave me some real concerns about willow trees. Hemlock and Silver made me…
Like Sung-il Kim’s debut novel Blood of the Old Kings (translated by the incomparable Anton Hur), his follow-up Blood for the Undying Throne is a trove of badassery. It takes everything awesome about 90s…
Words, formerly normal, that now unnerve me thanks to Cathedral of the Drowned: meat, scoop, jelly. Words that were already uncomfortable that got worse: glutinous, birthed, slurry. Words that I use to describe Cathedral…
Hope is the thing with feathers. Unfortunately, in Daedalus Is Dead by Seamus Sullivan, hope is Icarus, and Icarus, like his father, is dead. This isn’t a spoiler for many reasons—not only is it…