There are a lot of books you can wax effusive about by saying that you stayed up too late, that you missed your subway stop, or that you forgot to adhere to some other daily tasks. I’ve done all of that and more for good books, but The Bone Orchard is the first book I read …
Last Exit is the latest novel from Max Gladstone, and I am here to tell you that it is a doozy. It was one of the strangest reading experiences of my life, which sounds like a knock against it but truly isn’t. Last Exit is the story of what happens after the youthful golden heroes …
There’s horror—and then there’s horror. There’s gore and shock and dread and cosmic nothingness, all kinds of thrills and chills, all of them bounded between the beginning and end of a narrative and the physical covers of the book. And then there’s The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, which spills over its scant pages in all …
One of the best parts of the Fantasy genre is it doesn’t have to be just one thing. It can contain other genres within its genre. Engines of Empire by R.S. Ford, the first book in the new Age of Uprising series, is a hodgepodge of different fantasy elements, telling different stories with its point-of-view …
Are you the type of person that gets down on a high realism tabletop RPG? Maybe you read Wikipedia articles of living conditions in medieval Budapest for fun? If so, Age of Ash is an upcoming novel from The Expanse co-author Daniel Abraham and it is for you. Much like The Expanse, Age of Ash …
I’m not trying to be tautological when I say that history is written by the writers, cute as it may sound. And I’m not talking about historians. I’m not even professional writers, whether of fiction or journalism or what-have-you. I’m talking about writing history as it happens, taking control of a narrative that is still …
Road of Bones by veteran horror author Christopher Golden is a horror novel the way Resident Evil IV is a horror game. It’s scary, and it’s eerie, but in the end it’s all about the action. The isolation, the psychological elements, and the gore all feed the sense of dramatic forward motion, and not the …
You want a masterclass in worldbuilding? Look no further. Kate Elliott hasn’t been in the game for this long for nothing, and it’s clear from this brief novella that she has only grown in power. Servant Mage combines sharp insights, swift character work, and a magnificently complex world to make a story that feels both …
2022 is going to have some incredible books, and I’m especially looking forward to certain series continuing on or wrapping up entirely. There are too many to cover in a single article, so this is only the first 1/3rd of the year. And, as always, the best way to support authors is to preorder their …
Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a West-African-inspired fantasy involving a young man too curious for his own good, a woman too ambitious for the good of anyone else, and an outsider in a land far away from home simply looking to regain what she has lost. Danso is a jali novitiate, a …