REVIEW: String Follow by Simon Jacobs
There is a quiet horror influencing the youth of Adena, Ohio. A mysterious force that doesn’t poison their young hearts but rather distorts their desires into something sinister. Simon Jacobs delivers an oddly curious...
REVIEW: Engines of Empire by R. S. Ford
Engines of Empire is the first in the new fantasy trilogy The Age of Uprising by R. S. Ford. Readers may be familiar with Ford from his earlier fantasy trilogies Steelhaven and War of...
REVIEW: The Winter Road by Adrian Selby
Adrian Selby’s The Winter Road, follows the ambition, drive, and cost to build a road across the perilous wilderness of The Circle, uniting the warring clans and creating a trade route. Behind this daring...
Let the Characters Take the Wheel
Every now and then (eerily it’s often around the time of a book launch) I’m asked a question that boils down to “What Comes First, Plot or Character?” The answer – at least for...
REVIEW: The Mirror’s Truth by Michael R. Fletcher
After reading Beyond Redemption last year, I confess to a giddy anticipation of the sequel—The Mirror’s Truth. When GdM alumnus and friend Michael R. Fletcher offered me the opportunity to preview it, of course...
Review: Foreign Devils by John Hornor Jacobs
Foreign Devils by John Hornor Jacobs is the recent follow-up to his 2014 novel The Incorruptibles. It is a beautifully written, ambitious, and refreshing work even if it fails to deliver a satisfying ending...
REVIEW: Faithless by Graham Austin-King
Faithless, from Graham Austin-King (The Riven Wyrde Saga), is an intelligent, complex, exciting, dark, and somewhat transgressive story about a young man’s journey from poor son of a farmer to, well, you’ll have to...
Review: The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence
Reading The Broken Empire trilogy really changed the way I view fantasy. It was after reading this trilogy that I discovered and began to define for myself what grimdark is. As a kid I...
Review: The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis
There I was, looking for a break from the usual sword-and-slashery that we all love so much, when I took to Amazon to find my next read. I had just finished reading Sebastien de...
Review: Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia
I first came across Larry Correia while I was doing what most failed writers do—browsing the internet to find out how I can become a better writer instead of actually writing. Correia and author...