Why I Love The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
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,…
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Brigands & Breadknives Review – Finding Your Own Dreams
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…
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Automatic Noodle Review – Robots, Rights, and Restaurants
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is about a group of robots in an unidentified dystopian future of California who discover not only that they have been offline for months, but also that the owners…
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The Devils Review – Monsters No Worse Than Men
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie feels fresh while still retaining the style of writing the author has become famous for. It’s set in a new world, our world in an alternate timeline Europe, where…
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Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame Review – True Choices
Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang is written like a folktale, not about slaying dragons but finding yourself again after you’ve lost who you were to protect yourself. It’s a tale…
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The Daughters’ War Review – Mouth of the Storm
In Christopher Buhelman's The Daughters' War, Galva dom Braga, a knight from, tells the tale of her time in the third goblin war to who we can assume is her traveling companion, Kinch, from…
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The Sky on Fire Review – Hoards and Truths
Anahrod was a teenager when the dragons declared her a traitor and had her executed, but she survived and thrived in the Deep jungles far below the peaks where dragons ruled over society. Her…
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Tress of the Emerald Sea Review – A Gemstone that Truly Glitters
It feels cliché to say, even though it rings true, but Tress of the Emerald Sea feels like it’s the Brandon Sanderson remix of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. Not only will I not…
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The Sword Defiant Review – There and Interceding Again
Nine heroes came together and defeated the dark lord of Necrad twenty-two years ago, losing one of their own in the process, and now have been doing their best without him trying to lead…
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The Lost Metal Review – The Mists, The Metal, and The Cosmere
The days of The Lord Ruler and his Final Empire are long behind the Wax and Wayne gang and us as readers. Yet, the rippling effect of Brandon Sanderson's original Mistborn trilogy echoes all…
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