REVIEW: Skin by Peter Fugazzotto
Skin is a novella with a creepy cover image of a human skeleton with its skin removed. The blurb is equally creepy, giving us the promise of a horror tale set in a fantasy...
REVIEW: Fate of Madness by Jesse Teller
Here we go, the final doorstop of a volume in the massive tetralogy by Jesse Teller, Fate of Madness. After the first three tomes, Onslaught of Madness, Wrath of Madness, and Plight of Madness,...
REVIEW: Norylska Groans by Michael R. Fletcher and Clayton W. Snyder
Grimdark steampunk Russian influenced fantasy set within an industrial city in a Russian flavored fantasy world with mob families competing over magical memory stones? I’m in! Norylska Groans is a fine fantasy collaboration between...
REVIEW: She Dreams in Blood by Michael R. Fletcher
She Dreams in Blood is the sequel to the excellent Black Stone Heart, book one of the Obsidian Path. The first novel is a finalist in the 2021 Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO), and...
REVIEW: The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True by Sean Gibson
A bard’s job is to tell a story. Beyond that, whether the story is true or not is relative. While most good bards will want some element of truth in the tales to give...
REVIEW: The Sandman (Audible) by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs
Neil Gaiman is one of today’s most beloved and well-known fantasy authors, with good reason. Dirk Maggs is a force in the industry too, having developed many popular properties from comics and prose and...
REVIEW: Widdershins by Alex Alexander
Widdershins begins in the slums, where we meet our protagonist Niclas. It’s difficult to call him hero, as he’s a pretty simple lad and if we’re being honest, he’s not the sharpest tool in...
REVIEW: Plight of Madness by Jesse Teller
Plight of Madness is Book Three of The Madness Wars, the penultimate volume of this epic sprawl covering a massive military conquest of the warrior nation Drine over its refined and cultured neighbor, Tienne....
REVIEW: Dune: The Duke of Caladan by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
As the classic novel Dune by Frank Herbert opens, we’re introduced to the noble family of House Atreides, as they’re moving operations from their homeworld of Caladan to a new holding, the desert planet...
REVIEW: Ink by Jonathan Maberry
The concept of a dream thief, or a stealer of memories is fascinating. A creepy villain with the ability to sneak in and access the mind of victims, especially in such a way as...