Rory Blake lives in the world of Rime, a world where the gifted, those with magical abilities, are sent, not to flourish, but to survive. Filled with disease, lawlessness, and a brutal winter’s chill, the number one rule of Rime is to look out for oneself. Emmett Santos, also a […]
I read the first of this duology, Atlantis Rising, last year and found it thrilling. A lot of twists & turns, engaging characters, and a creative history for Atlantis. While it ended abruptly, I was mostly satisfied. When I found out a sequel existed, I knew I had to read […]
Olivia Gratehouse’s Rat King takes a familiar fantasy plot and puts the most unusual hero in the center of it—a goblin. Rat King (or RK) is a lowly guard for an elven vampiric lady. She is visited by an adventurer named Teagan who often interacts with the lady of the […]
Paula Chaffee Scardamalia’s The Tempting Voice is a romance about a hidden Greek mythological world that co-exists with ours. The novel explores the tropes of forbidden love, personal achievement, the positive and negative of family, and monstrous enemies. The novel alternates point-of-view between two main characters – Nik and Marie […]
Ember Weathers is a bookstore owner on the island of Devil’s Island, Maine. She dreams of adventure and escape from her small town. Nothing ever interesting happens to her. That is, except she has an invisible dragon that only she can see. At the start of the novel, a mysterious […]
Heather Ashle’s An Heir of Realms is the first book of the Realm Rider Series. The novel is a multi-world, multi-POV, epic fantasy of soldiers who ride dragons, protecting a world. A brief summary. In the main world of D’Erenelle, Rhoswen and Thane are niece and nephew to the king. […]
Spindelkin is an enchanting and wonderfully-imagined YA novel by Jean Davis. The queen’s daughter, Amira, suffers through a daily extract of her poisoned blood to remain alive. Cut off from civilization, Amira has only her mother, father, and maids as visitors. One day, Amira finds that the queen has given […]
From Horror With Love is a novella full of short stories by C. Rae D’Arc set in her world of Novel. Novel is a unique world in which all the countries are genres of books. As such, Novel is made up of Fantasy, Western, Romance, Horror areas as well as […]
When an author produces a masterpiece on her first attempt, it’s tempting to compare her second novel to her first. For Rita Morgenstern’s first two works, I won’t compare The Starless Sea to The Night Circus. They are different and only connected by the author’s literary talents. Zachary Ezra Rawlins, […]
Full disclosure that I have a story in this anthology. I will only be reviewing the rest of the stories. All remarks below exclude my own story, including the count—twelve stories exist in this anthology. The fairy tale of Red Riding Hood is a cautionary tale in the category of […]