Tag: fantasy
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Identity in the Face of Grief
Book Review of Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo. A character-rich exploration of grief and identity in a world full of strange juxtapositions.
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Agatha Christie, but with Body-hopping and Time-travel
All the structural complexity of a Agatha Christine mystery, mixed with time-travel and body-hopping to produce a gothic tour de force.
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Vibrant World-building
A vibrant and immersive world that reflects the fury and injustices of our modern world back at us.
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The Cinnamon-roll Version of Simon Snow
Book Review of Ever After by FT Lukens – A mini chocolate bar of a book, sweet short and forgotten an hour later.
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African Fairy tale
A compelling hero telling a simple but compelling tale with a bittersweet ending.
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Internal Monologues Suck
Review of the Spells we Cast by Jason June in which I discuss the use of the internal monologue (or character interiority) and the ways its misused.
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Just a great big Nope
A quick rant about a dreadful book
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Words of the Week 37
A vignette: The mayor coughed. “It hardly matters, the skill level of the torture!” “No, sir, of course not.” The mayor stared gimlet-eyed at John for a long time. “Very good John. I don’t think it necessary to mention these details to the council, we don’t want a long peregrination from the planned discussion.”
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How to Survive Continental Rifting
The Best Fantasy I have read? Incredible Worldbuilding and imaginative story structure come together to explore some powerful social issues
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Middle Book Syndrome
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse I loved the first book in this series Black Sun and have been waiting excitedly for more than 1 year to get a ebook copy of Fevered Sun. Sadly, on its own, its not really worth the wait. It suffers a solid case of second / middle book syndrome; it…