Category: Fantasy
Brief Cases (The Dresden Files anthology book 2) by Jim Butcher (book review)
Immersion in a world that is the background for a successful series of novels is often the penalty a writer pays. There is a demand for more novels from fans, there are also the requests from editors to contribute to anthology and the danger of coming out of the mindset needed for the next novel. […]
Robin Hood (2018) (2nd trailer).
Here’s the new trailer for the new Robin Hood movie from Lionsgate with Taron Egerton wearing the hooded one’s mantle and Jamie Foxx as his chum back from the Crusades.
Wyntertide: Rotherweird book 2 by Andrew Caldecott (book review).
Fiendishly plotted and carefully crafted, ‘Wyntertide’ is the sequel to the quirky ‘Rotherweird’ which introduces us to the city state hidden from history. Having been granted independence by Queen Elizabeth, the first Rotherweird bans the teaching of history and nurses a terrible secret at its heart. Into this came the unassuming Jonah Oblong, teacher of […]
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide To Creating Imaginative Fiction: Revised & Expanded by Jeff Vandermeer (book review).
I never read Jeff Vandermeer’s original release of this book, ‘Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide To Creating Imaginative Fiction: Revised & Expanded’, but I became curious as to what he has to say about writing. He isn’t alone here as he ropes in a lot of writers he knows to also give their opinions. There are […]
El Borak And Other Desert Adventures by Robert E. Howard (book review).
Down in the west Texas town of El Paso was born Francis Xavier Gordon, known by repute from Stamboul to the China Sea. Muhammadans called him El Borak, the swift. They feared and respected him. An evil Hungarian called Gustav Hunyadi may be his match. This villain is plotting to send a howling horde of […]
Mortal Engines (behind the scenes video).
A glance behind the curtain for the upcoming Peter Jackson movie ‘Mortal Engines‘ – based on the YA steampunk book of the same name by writer Philip Reeve. Here’s the film’s official blurb … Thousands of years after civilisation was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted and a new way of living has […]
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (book review).
Rin lives in a backwater town with adoptive parents who use her as free labour. She knows that the only way to get out of there and make a life of her choosing is to get accepted to the most prestigious military academy in the country, Sinegard. Yet how can she, a poorly educated commoner, […]
Queen Of Shadows (Throne Of Glass book 4) by Sarah J Maas (book review).
‘Queen Of Shadows’ is book four in the ‘Throne Of Glass’ series by Sarah J Maas, I believe this will eventually be a seven book series with other added novellas. This is her series about Celaena Sardothien. In this book, Celaena Sardothien has returned to Rifthold but, this time as her own person, no longer […]
Obsidio – The Illuminae Files part 3 by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (book review).
‘Obsidio’ is the third and final book in ‘The Illuminae Files’. Please don’t read this review unless you’ve read Illuminae’ and ‘Gemina’, or there may be spoilers and most of it probably won’t make much sense to you neither. This time, along with some of the people from books one and two, we are following […]
Where Angels Fear To Tread (a Remy Chandler novel book 4) by Thomas E Sniegoski (book review).
Remy Chandler is a detective. This is a marked change from his former life as a warrior angel and God’s right fist. Day to day, he struggles to control the angel which lives semi-dormant in his human body. His supernatural nature means he is able to handle the more out-there cases. He can move between […]
