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Category: Fantasy

September 27, 2020

Review: Dragonfly Falling, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 4 out of 5 The second instalment in Mr Tchaikvosky’s Shadows of the Apt was a clear improvement over the first. Not only…

September 27, 2020

Review: Empire in Black and Gold, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is the second time I’ve read this book. Last time round this was the only volume I read…

September 23, 2020

Review: The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang

Rating: 4 out of 5 I was brought to R.F. Kuang’s fantasy saga by an article which claimed this was one of the top…

September 4, 2020

Review: How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It, K.J. Parker

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Parker’s joyful style as he takes the persona of Notker is a pleasure to experience. Not only is…

July 19, 2020

Review: Kellanved’s Reach, Ian C. Esslemont

Rating: 5 out of 5 Having read this originally a year ago, I picked the book up again so recently because I also read…

July 14, 2020

Review: Deadhouse Landing, Ian C. Esslemont

Rating: 4 out of 5 The second book of a trilogy, and the weird adventures of Dancer and Wu—who is shortly going to gain…

July 12, 2020

Review: Dancer’s Lament, Ian C. Esslemont

Rating: 5 out of 5 I enjoyed this. I read the Malazan Book of the Fallen a fair time ago now, but the two…

May 28, 2020

Review: The Tales of Beetle the Bard, J.K. Rowling

Rating: 4 out of 5 There were less stories here than I hoped. Some of them we’ve kind of heard of in the larger…

April 27, 2020

Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 I remember reading a review of this work on The Guardian which went in some depth into Ms Jemisin’s…

April 15, 2020

Review: Heroes, Joe Abercrombie

Rating: 5 out of 5 This was my second time with Mr Abercrombie’s ‘Heroes’. I remembered the book as a story of the wild…

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