Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t recall in all my years of reading fantasy seeing a book as obviously based on the Crusades as Gunmetal Gods. This is no criticism – learning of the Crusades in High School and beyond was fascinating, but let’s just say what we learned was somewhat biased. We had armies from Europe going on […]
This was recommended to me by some fellow reviewers so, having signed up for a Kindle Unlimited trial, I jumped at the chance to check it out. I even went so far as to leapfrog my epic review backlog to put the word out there… So, what’s it all about? Gera, now qualified as a blacksmith, decides to leave his […]
My dip into Kindle Unlimited continues, this time with An Altar on the Village Green by Nathan Hall, which has been getting some good praise on the review circuit. More excitingly, I finished it yesterday, so you don’t have to listen to my whining about how I read it a year ago. Hurrah!! So, what’s it all about? The world […]
I’ve heard a lot of talk of this book online, so I actually signed up for Kindle Unlimited just to read it. This is the author’s (Jeff Speight) first book and he has put out a solid first effort. The story tells of Umhra, a half-orc mercenary who is taking his small band of fellow half-orcs (the Bloodbound) to score […]
Hot on the heels of reading listening to my first ever Warhammer book, I read listened to my second. NOW I understand the popularity. Bear in mind that the target audience for this book is folks who love Warhammer and have a far greater knowledge of its universe than I do. I had to do a little research for this […]
I seem to make a lot of crass confessions on here, so why stop now? For someone who listens to a lot of audiobooks (or maybe because), I hardly ever listen to podcasts. When I saw this book on the shelves at my library, I knew nothing about it, only finding out about the podcast by reading the blurb on […]
I have a dark and shameful secret that I am going to unload on you all. I remember seeing The Expanse pop up in my suggestions on Netflix, and thinking “that sounds like the kind of show I would like.” It was (good job Netflix!). The cast was great, the story was engaging and the effects were cool. A few […]
I cannot tell a lie – I love a good ghost story. While this has ghosts in it, it’s not really a ghost story. I loved it anyway. Disclaimer – I read this in October, so forgive me if I’m a little hazy on some of the details. So, what’s it all about? Cady Archer is going to Harvard. She […]
Erik Henry Vick has been around for a while and is well-known in independent dark fantasy circles. The Demon King isn’t his first book, but the first of his I have read (listened to). What we have here is a story about a small town where evil entities are taking children. The book has two distinct timelines where the children […]
Last year, despite my love of fantasy and sci-fi, I found it heavy sledding listening to many of them on audio, so I started having affairs with other genres. I’ve always liked horror and been fascinated with serial killers, so The Whisper Man sounded like a good fit. When I found out it was narrated by Christopher Eccleston (yes, THE […]
