The end of 2015 marks the completion of this blog’s first year of existence, and what a year to start with: we can’t remember the last 12-month period that gave us such a strong run of new science fiction and fantasy books, spanning every subgenre on the shelves. Below, we’ve selected 25 of our favorites—these […]
This week’s new releases prove magic is nothing to mess with. Sure, it seems like using your ability to alter the world through music is a good idea—until you’re addicted to using it like a drug, or banished into exile for a quarter-century, or turned into an uncontrollable fiend. Be careful out there, kids.
In the city of Guerdon, the church bells ring with the cries of long-conquered gods, saints and alchemists wage war in the streets, and armageddon is all but at hand. A trio of misfit thieves is all that stands against a complex network of competing gods and mages—and the destruction they will wreak. To commemorate […]
There is often an awfulness to pretty things. Roses have their thorns, poetry its dirges, Shakespeare his tragedies. Even the prettiest people hide their own ugly little secrets.
A good Halloween read must embody number of key qualities: dark, of course, but not too bleak, with a little pep in its step, and a touch of gallows humor or black comedy. Maybe it’s scary, or maybe it revels in a milder form of spooky. The best Halloween books deal in monsters and lore, often keeping one […]
