I have fallen back into my own trap. After making some headway into my 2021 TBR, I have fallen behind again. However, this is more of a reflection on how busy (and lazy) I have been and not on this monster from KS Villoso – one of my favourite reads of recent years. In fact, I enjoyed this so much […]
Ever heard of the Night Vale podcast? I didn’t until I read the first novel Welcome to Night Vale, which I had had my eye on for some time. It was a delight, funny and weird and full of wonderful characters – even the lesser ones. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home is pegged as book […]
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Ah, nothing like a bit of Sword & Sorcery to get your day started. To be honest, it’s probably been a while since I read some S&S, but it is a genre I like to read. I came across this in the Goodread’s Sword & […]
I have finally caught up to (not “with”) my 2021 reviews, but this is the first I will be posting on here. It should be a fun experience getting through 2021, as I read 197 reviewable “things” last year. I shall refer to them as “things” as some people take umbrage when we refer to “things” as books when they […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
