The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab “There are no strangers in the town of Near.” That is, until the night Lexi sees a strange boy outside her window — one who seems to have uncanny abilities. Then, Pied-Piper-style, the children of Near begin to disappear, lured away by a song. Lexi, as an adolescent, can […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 3.5 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Vicious by V.E. Schwab Note: Find “Warm Up,” a short-story introduction to Vicious, for free at Tor.com. You can also purchase it for 99c on Kindle. Vicious, by V.E. Schwab, is another offering in the ever-more popular folks-with-powers genre, and fits as well in the equally popular sub-genre where those folks-with-powers don’t’ fall neatly into the […]
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Vengeful by V.E. Schwab I had mostly the same reactions to V.E. Schwab’s Vengeful (2018) as I did to its predecessor Vicious: the various elements are all a bit too familiar and the two main adversaries are a little flat, but Schwab does a mostly good job of overcoming those issues thanks to a stimulatingly […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Archived by Victoria Schwab Mackenzie (Mac) Bishop, a high-school student, has just moved to a new town with her mom and dad. They’re living in an apartment in a renovated old hotel. Her mom is excited about restoring and reopening a once-popular coffee shop in the hotel, but Mac knows that her mom is […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Unbound by Victoria Schwab The Unbound is the sequel to Victoria Schwab’s The Archived, which you should read before starting this book. There will be some spoilers for The Archived in this review, so beware. Summer is over for Mackenzie Bishop, the Keeper whose secret job is to escort the “Histories” of dead people […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab I was a big fan of V.E. Schwab’s 2013 novel Vicious, noting in my review how she had overcome the possible burden of overfamiliar concepts (it’s a folks-with-powers-who-have-some-gray-to-them kind of novel) with supremely polished execution. Well, she’s pretty much done the same with her newest novel, A […]
Read MoreBill Capossere, Ray McKenzie, Tim Scheidler, Marion Deeds and Skye Walker´s rating: 4 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | SFF Reviews | | 11 comments |
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab While I didn’t fall in in love with V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic, I quite enjoyed it, giving it four stars in my review. Schwab is back in this universe now with a sequel, A Gathering of Shadows (2016), which carries forward the strengths of the first […]
Read MoreBill Capossere, Kevin Wei and Marion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab A Conjuring of Light (2017) brings V.E. Schwab’s multi-world trilogy to a close while leaving plenty of room for future stories in the SHADES OF MAGIC universe. We (Bill and Marion) both read it, and we share their thoughts about the third book below. This review may contain […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds and Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5, 4 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab This Savage Song (2016) is the first book in the MONSTERS OF VERITY duology by Victoria Schwab and it’s a strong entry point — fast moving, smoothly told, with a compellingly dark premise and engaging, interesting characters. Even better, there’s no drop off in book two (Our Dark Duet), so […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab This Savage Song (2016), Schwab’s first book in her MONSTERS OF VERITY duology, introduced this world and its sharply drawn main characters Kate and August via a well and smoothly told story that ended with a great closing scene that whetted the reader’s desire for more of this story. In Our […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
City of Ghosts by V.E. Schwab City of Ghosts (2018) by V.E. Schwab is a Middle Grade book that, well, reads like a Middle Grade book. In other words, it’s entertaining and engaging enough for that age group, but doesn’t have the depth or complexity in plot or characters to expand beyond that audience, which […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 3 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | Children | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020) is a charming, thoughtful, sometimes-dark, sometimes moving, story about memory, love, rash decisions, female agency, stubborn defiance, mortality, resilience, and the power of art. In this time of Covid, a novel focused so much on the desire […]
Read MoreBill Capossere, Tadiana Jones, Jana Nyman and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4.5 | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “The Grammarian’s Five Daughters” by Eleanor Arnason (1999, originally published in Realms of Fantasy, June 1999, reprinted in 2004 and free online at Strange Horizons) […]
Read MoreKatie Burton, Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
At Fantasy Literature, we love fearless women! Women are shining in every genre of speculative fiction, and it is no longer enough to say “Women are here.” Instead, #FearlessWomen everywhere are taking a stand to say “Women will thrive here.” Highlighting major titles from bestselling authors V.E. Schwab, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jacqueline Carey as well as […]
Read MoreJana Nyman | Victoria (V.E.) Schwab | Feature | | 2 comments |
I spent most of the morning today in the dealers’ room, which was a disaster for my wallet but a boon for my library. As has become my habit of late, I spent more time picking up titles from small presses, like Prime, Night Shade and EDGE, than from the big boys. Some of that […]
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