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EVOCATION by S. T. GibsonWith her latest, S T Gibson has gone all Witches of Eastwick… set in modern-day Boston, Evocation tells of an occult elite, working under the radar...
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THE HOUSE THAT HORROR BUILT by Christina HenryHorror novels about horror has become a genre unto itself in recent years, self-aware stories are often popular. Novels like Grady Hendrix’s The...
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SPARKS OF BRIGHT MATTER by Leeanne O’DonnellSparks of Bright Matter is a novel combining descriptions of 18th century London with rural Ireland, the search for a missing object of importance...
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THE SLAIN DIVINE by David Dalglish (Vagrant Gods #3)The Vagrant has helped to lead a rebellion against the forces who wish to subjugate his home of Thanet. Lucavi, the God-Incarnate is ready to...
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THE MARS HOUSE by Natasha PulleyJanuary Stirling is a ballet dancer, one of the principal dancers of London’s Royal Ballet living in a future (three hundred years or so)...
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DRAGON MAGE by M.L. Spencer (Rivenworld #1)I’ve been an Epic Fantasy reader for decades, cutting my proverbial teeth on Margaret Weis’s DragonLance series shortly after they were released,...
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SANCTUARY OF THE SHADOW by Aurora AscherI’m not really sure why, but I do like a circus story. Perhaps it’s that feeling created by reading Ray Bradbury Weird Tales many years ago, or...
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MURDER ROAD by Simone St JamesIt’s July 1995. April and Eddie Carter are newly-weds on their way to a stay at the Five Pines Resort, a cheap motel on the edge of Lake...
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THE BUTCHER of the FOREST by Premee MohamedPremee Mohamed’s The Butcher of the Forest is a dark fairy tale that wastes no time in getting the ball rolling. Veris Thorn is a young woman, a...
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A FLAME IN THE NORTH by Lilith Saintcrow (Black Land’s Bane #1)Lilith Saintcrow is one of the more prolific fantasy writers of the early 21st Century, her oeuvre ranges across a wide swath of speculative...
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FATHOMFOLK by Eliza ChanAt its simplest, Fathomfolk is a fantasy tale of underwater folk. More than that, though, Fathomfolk is a story about differences – differences...
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THE TRIALS OF EMPIRE by Richard SwanFollowing events in The Tyranny of Faith, Konrad Vonvalt is now a disgraced and powerless ex-Justice. With the Imperialist Magistratum disbanded,...
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MACHINE VENDETTA by Alastair ReynoldsIn the third Prefect Dreyfus novel, (the first, The Prefect, was reviewed here, and the second, Elysium Fire, reviewed here), we return to the...
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KNOCK KNOCK, OPEN WIDE by Neil SharpsonIrish Folklore and family secrets form the core of Neil Sharpson’s Knock Knock, Open Wide. Sharpson’s novel starts in 1979 on a dark rainy night,...
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RELUCTANT IMMORTALS by Gwendolyn KisteThere are forgotten characters in all of literature, or maybe minor characters who had impact on the story in which they appear, but are then cast...
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The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler“Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you’re dead.” I picked this up on hearing of...
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The Tyranny of Faith by Richard SwanIn which we return to the land of The Empire of the Wolf. After the events in Galen’s Vale (as given in the first book of this Epic Fantasy series,...
