Category: Reviews

  • Footprints in the Woods by John Lister-Kaye

    Footprints in the Woods by John Lister-Kaye

    Synopsis: The elusive lives of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and more are rendered in John Lister-Kaye’s enchanting lyrical style Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye’s account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family – Mustelidae – all live in the wild at…

  • Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Synopsis: They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . . New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists – and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to…

  • The DallerGut Dream Department Store by Mi-ye Lee

    The DallerGut Dream Department Store by Mi-ye Lee

    Synopsis: In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there’s a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal shuffle in to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor specializes in a specific type of dream: childhood memories, food dreams, ice skating, dreams of stardom. Flying dreams are almost always…

  • The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

    The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

    Synopsis: Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother.…

  • A Dance of Lies by Brittney Arena

    A Dance of Lies by Brittney Arena

    Synopsis: My protector is gone, revealed to be a monster. But I remind myself that I am not a damsel. I’m no princess bound within a tower. I am a shadow. Vasalie Moran was once a dancer in King Illian’s court, until he framed her for murder. Barely surviving her two years in the dungeons,…

  • The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi

    The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi

    Synopsis: Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire’s past. And the truth they find has the power to ignite a war in the sequel to The Final Strife, the continuation of a visionary fantasy trilogy inspired by Africa and Arabia. Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens’ Empire. But when…