Book Reviews & Recommendations
Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief is an exhilarating plunge into a dark, witty, and vividly alive fantasy world. With sharp humor, raw emotion, and cinematic worldbuilding, this novel marks Buehlman’s triumphant transition from horror to high fantasy. It is the first book […]
Joe Abercrombie cracks open a new sandbox with The Devils, an irreverent, blood-slick epic that trades the familiar First Law world for an alternate medieval Europe where popes are queens, Troy won its war, Carthage outmuscled Rome, and elves are not ethereal […]
Christopher Buehlman’s The Daughters’ War is a magnificent, heart-wrenching return to the grim, goblin-haunted world he first introduced in The Blacktongue Thief. Set during the devastating years before that novel, this prequel doesn’t merely expand the mythology; it deepens it. Through blood, […]
Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne is a triumph of imagination and emotional depth, the kind of epic fantasy that feels both ancient and urgently modern. Drawing inspiration from Indian history and mythology, Suri crafts a world of burning temples, forbidden magic, and […]
Mai Corland returns to her bloodsoaked playground with Four Ruined Realms, the propulsive sequel to Five Broken Blades. The stakes are bigger, the double crosses are sharper, and the blades are somehow both more fractured and more entangled. If book one was […]
Samantha Shannon returns to the Roots of Chaos universe with a sweeping, stand-alone prequel that proves epic fantasy can be both thunderous and intimate. Set roughly five centuries before The Priory of the Orange Tree, A Day of Fallen Night charts the […]
Samantha Shannon returns to the lush, intricate world of The Priory of the Orange Tree with Among the Burning Flowers, a visually stunning and emotionally charged prequel that captures the first sparks of chaos before the great war with dragons. With exquisite […]
Verdict in a sentence: A razor sharp blend of dark academia, Roman inspired epic, and twist heavy plotting, The Will of the Many delivers the most compulsively readable academy fantasy since The Name of the Wind and the most propulsive class revolt […]