Weirdbook Magazine aims to deliver a menu of genres: “fantasy, dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, ghost, horror, heroic fantasy, science fantasy or just plain odd” (quote from their submission requests online). This is fitting because “Weird Fiction” grew out of the pulp magazine era (~1920’s) when th...
Shattered Shields edited by Jennifer Brozek is an anthology focused on military fantasy, specifically heroic struggles and epic combat. Here seventeen short stories and novellas explore the vast expanse of military fantasy in all its varied forms from adventures in hither unexplored worlds to new ta...
Moon Six: ★★★ An astronaut lands on the moon, only to find out it didn't belong to the Earth he comes from. A Brief Guide to Other Histories: ★★★ Meeting your doppelganger can't be good for you. Crystal Halloway & the Forgotten Passage:★★★ We've all been there as kids, we just don't remember. An Emp...
PrimordiaI don’t really know how to rate this. I was, at first, delighted by the artwork, mostly because I like things being pretty and colourful. I was delighted, but not impressed. Does that make sense? There was a child-like quality to the drawing and colouring, but I like that. I don’t need my g...
Solid debut from a gifted guy. I did have trouble after my reading was interrupted, getting back into it. Not sure why. It's definitely complex and has a lot of characters to follow. IT's called Seven Princes for a reason. It's dark. But it's also engaging. I really got hooked early on getting into ...
The sentences are certainly well constructed. Unfortunately, the narrative generated as a result is not.
When I read this book I kept thinking that this book will get a conclusion, cool. And it did. Everything ended all nicely, but then, oh yes then there was that one loose thread and I realized that this is a series. But is felt like a different sort of series since it did have an ending. No cliffie a...