Posted by Marion Deeds | Dec 5, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards The Hourglass Throne, published in 2022, is the third book in K.D. Edwards’s THE TAROT SEQUENCE, following the adventures of Atlanteans transplanted to Nantucket Island. This review may contain spoilers for The Last Sun and The Hanged Man, the two previous books. I recommend reading both earlier books; at […]
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Posted by Bill Capossere | Jul 27, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 10
Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett In Locklands, Robert Jackson Bennett closes out his FOUNDERS TRILOGY in epic style, raising the stakes to literally “all of creation” and upping his characters’ (some of them) power levels to god-like heights, all while managing to keep the story grounded in the personal thanks to Jackson’s typically sharp characterization. […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 5, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 2
Night Shift Dragons by Rachel Aaron Rachel Aaron’s DFZ (DETROIT FREE ZONE) series comes to a conclusion with the third novel, published in 2020, Night Shift Dragons. For this review, I’ll assume you’ve already read its predecessors, Minimum Wage Magic and Part-Time Gods. (There will be spoilers for those books in this review.) The story […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Jan 18, 2022 | SFF Reviews | 0
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson Humanity has been on the losing end of a centuries-long war with the Superiority, the main organization of galactic races, for decades, trapped on a desolate planet called Detritus and fighting an ongoing war using outdated, small spacecraft to keep from being exterminated. In the second book in this series, Starsight, […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Mar 9, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
Soulstar by C.L. Polk “The knock came an hour after we had put up the stormboards and battened down to wait it out.” With her opening sentence, C.L. Polk starts the action of Soulstar (2021), book three in her KINGSTON CYCLE. And the action rolls on through the first chapter at a breathless pace, with […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Feb 24, 2021 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris Charlaine Harris’s alternative history/urban fantasy GUNNIE ROSE series shifts to a new setting in this third book in the series, The Russian Cage (2021), one that was foreshadowed by the ending of the prior book, A Longer Fall. Lizbeth Rose, who makes her living as a hired gun or […]
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Posted by Tadiana Jones | Jul 27, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
TRUEL1F3 by Jay Kristoff Jay Kristoff’s TRUEL1F3 (2020) wraps up his YA dystopian LIFELIKE trilogy with a long buildup to an epic battle, set in a nuclear-blasted future version of the “Yousay.” Some humans have (presumably due to radiation-induced mutations) developed superpowers and are often treated as deviants by normal humans; most of our main […]
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Posted by Marion Deeds | Jul 17, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 4
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal With a new protagonist and definite resistance to expanded space colonization coming from Earth, The Relentless Moon (2020) provides increasing tension, drama and action, giving us, in part, a spy thriller set on a lunar colony. The third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s THE LADY ASTRONAUT series follows […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Jul 1, 2020 | SFF Reviews | 0
Light of Impossible Stars by Gareth L. Powell Gareth L. Powell brings his EMBERS OF WAR trilogy to a satisfying conclusion with Light of Impossible Stars (2020). You’ll need to read Embers of War and Fleet of Knives first. There will be some spoilers for those novels in this review. When we left Captain Sal, […]
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Posted by Kat Hooper | Sep 24, 2019 | SFF Reviews | 0
The Wicked King by Holly Black The Wicked King (2019) is the second book in Holly Black’s THE FOLK OF THE AIR series. The first book, The Cruel Prince, and a supplementary novella, The Lost Sisters, introduced us to Jude and Taryn, mortal twin sisters who were brought to faerie after their parents were murdered […]
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