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Anthony Ryan has a gift. A gift for writing war and mysticism then entangling the two together so you cannot have one without the other. In the fantasy genre, war has become rather tiresome.…
Read story ↗Along with my list of books read, I keep a list of particularly excellent quotes from those books, insights or particularly poetic turns of phrase that I know I’ll want to revisit. I don’t…
Read story ↗Sarah Gailey’s upcoming book Just Like Home hits a perfect sweet spot between true crime vibes and creeping gothic horror. Normally I try to read about one book to review a month; this book…
Read story ↗Perhaps it’s the times, or perhaps it’s my specific brand of pessimism, which I don’t wish on anyone, but A Prayer for the Crown-Shy made me sad. Not tragically so, and not also without…
Read story ↗Good horror is scary, but great horror is tender. It does not always speak at a scream, but tells you, very softly but very firmly, what is about to happen. It does not gloat,…
Read story ↗I confess that I had never read "The Fall of the House of Usher" until What Moves the Dead came out. (Other Poe, yes, but I prefer his poetry.) But I could not in…
Read story ↗Samit Basu’s latest novel The City Inside is a bleak near-future dystopian exploration of Indian culture, social media, capitalism and all those other fun bits of facism that have been building in our world.…
Read story ↗We decide what is the way of the world. Us. People.- Uspa Whoever told the people of John Gwynne's series The Bloodsworn Saga that the gods would stay fallen after the Guðfalla may have…
Read story ↗Dolly Parton, a woman who we can all agree is unequivocally herself (and her best self, at that), once advised to "find out who you are and do it on purpose." I mention this…
Read story ↗I realized part of the way through A Mirror Mended, Alix E. Harrow's follow-up to her 2021 A Spindle Splintered, that this was only sort of taking its inspiration from portal fantasy. Its true parentage,…
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