Category: Fiction
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Storm of Magic by Cassie Greutman
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Jayla Nofsky is a rookie officer with the LAPD whose life is changed when a call she responds to turns out to involve the fae who have recently appeared in the modern world. I like the buddy cop interaction between…
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Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell
I really enjoyed this book. I expected that going in, given how much I enjoyed John Wiswell’s short story Open House on Haunted Hill. Shesheshen is a shapeshifting monster, more an amorphous carnivorous blob, who gets woken up from their hibernation by a group of monster hunters. Shesheshen repels them then sneaks into town to…
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Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
This was not my first time reading Three Parts Dead. In fact, I pre-ordered it when it first came out and read it then. Max Gladstone just released the second book of a sequel series to the original Craft Sequence books and in getting ready to read the Craft Wars books, I decided to go…
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Steel Guardian by Cameron Coral
I really enjoyed reading Steel Guardian by Cameron Coral. I think I got it on some sort of sale, based on reading the premise of “janitor robot must protect human baby while wandering though the wasteland of the AI Uprising Apocalypse”. Premise That quick statement is basically the entire premise and plot of the book.…
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A Murder of Mages by Marshall Ryan Maresca
I recently read A Murder of Mages by Marshall Ryan Maresca. A Murder of Mages is the second book in Maresca’s Maradaine Saga and the first book of the Maradaine Constabulary sub-series within the saga. Maresca is one of the co-hosts of the Worldbuilding for Masochists podcast. The podcast is where I first encountered Maresca’s…
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Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Legends and Lattes is the debut fantasy novel from Travis Baldree. It was originally self-published before being noticed by Seanan McGuire who, according to the acknowledgements, practically threw the self-pub version at Tor books until they acquired the rights and made a new edition. Gamers may recognize Baldree’s name from his previous work as a…
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The Call of Cthulhu — H.P. Lovecraft
Featured Image: “Cthulhu Calling” by Adam Piontek, licensed under CC BY 2.0 This week I decided to actually get around to reading The Call of Cthulhu. I have a lot of friends who enjoy cosmic horror, and even specifically the Cthulhu Mythos, but I’d never actually read any of Lovecraft’s Mythos books. I’d only read…
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Liar City by Allie Therin
Note: I Received A Free Reviewer Copy Through NetGalley I recently finished Liar City by Allie Therin. It’s due out on February 28, 2023. The premise of Liar City is that there is a group of people who can psychically read others’ emotions through touch, called Empaths. The main characters are an Empath named Reece…
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Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey
Earlier today I finished reading Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey. Nemesis Games is book five of the Expanse series. It is a space opera set in our solar system a couple hundred years in the future. The Expanse focuses on the adventures of the crew of the Rocinante as they deal with events that…
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Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
What would a fantasy world look like if time fast-forwarded to the equivalent of the late 19th to early 20th century?