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The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson

Posted: Dec 19, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
Every Sanderson novel has all you ever need from a fantasy story. They have perfect, feel-good stories with characters to love and...

Embassytown by China Miéville

Posted: Dec 16, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
Embassytown is a stand-alone science fiction novel by China Miéville. The story follows the first-person narrative of Avice, a woman...

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Posted: Nov 1, 2011 | 8 comments | Forum Discussion
The Night Circus is Erin Morgenstern’s debut novel. Published simultaneously in the US and the UK in September 2011, this book is...

The City & the City by China Miéville

Posted: Oct 14, 2011 | 2 comments | Forum Discussion
The City & the City , a stand-alone novel by China Miéville, is a murder mystery given a unique twist through its setting. The...

The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma

Posted: Sep 13, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
The Map of Time by esteemed Spanish author Felix J. Palma is a mesmerising work of literary fiction with speculative aspects and pays...

Feast: Harvest of Dreams by Merrie Destefano

Posted: Aug 3, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
Feast is a confusing, mediocre urban fantasy with a romance that falls flat at the last minute.

The Devil’s Diadem by Sara Douglass

Posted: Aug 1, 2011 | 2 comments | Forum Discussion
The Devil’s Diadem, the latest offering by popular Australian author and historian Sara Douglass, is a stand-alone historical...

Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht

Posted: Jul 14, 2011 | 6 comments | Forum Discussion
I don’t usually read urban fantasy, especially not the trashy, fallen angel type (obviously, “trashy” is my own opinion — a...

The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones

Posted: Jun 29, 2011 | 2 comments | Forum Discussion
It is 8th century Baghdad and, before he is killed, a stranger pleads with the Vizier to protect a strange and mysterious tablet....

Boneshaker (Clockwork Century #1) by Cherie Priest

Posted: Jun 14, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
Boneshaker, the first book in Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century, won the 2010 Locus Award in the Best Science Fiction Novel category...

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Posted: Jun 1, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
Huntress is Malinda Lo’s second young adult novel.  It is billed as a prequel to Ash, though the threads that tie the two books...

Blood of the Maple (Maggie’s Grove #1) by Dana Marie Bell

Posted: May 24, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
Blood of the Maple offers great sex scenes and a lot of laughs. It’s a sexy contemporary fantasy that doesn’t aspire to great literature whatsoever.

Ash by Malinda Lo

Posted: May 18, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
Ash is a gay retelling of the Cinderella tale that challenges the assumptions underlying many fairy tales—namely, that all girls...

Brayan's Gold by Peter V. Brett

Posted: May 10, 2011 | 2 comments
This review does contain some spoilers for The Warded Man and should be read with caution if you plan on reading Peter V. Brett’s...

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Posted: Apr 27, 2011 | 15 comments | Forum Discussion
Akata Witch is a young adult standalone novel by the award-winning Nnedi Okorafor. Our protagonist is twelve-year-old Sunny, who grew...

Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw

Posted: Apr 26, 2011 | No comments | Forum Discussion
Mogworld is the debut novel by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, a well-known internet game reviewer whose piece Zero Punctuation...
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