Review: Dragon Age Tevinter Nights – Burn, Thedas, Burn

Title: Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Author(s): Patrick Weekes, Sylvia Fektekuty, John Epler, Lukas Kristjanson, Brianne Battye, Caitlin Sullivan Kelly, Courtney Woods, Ryan Cormier, Arone LaBray Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Game-to-Novel Subject(s): Gods, LGBTQ+ Release Date: March 10th, 2020 Page Count: 496 (paperback) Rating: 8.0/10     The Dragon Age games are dark, heroic, …

Review: The Unspoken Name – A Saga of Badass Lesbian Orc and Wonder Bread Boy

Title: The Unspoken Name Author: A.K. Larkwood Publisher: Tor Books Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Portal Fantasy Subject(s): Gods, Coming-of-Age, LGBTQ+ (main and secondary) Release Date: Feb 11th, 2020 Page Count: 464 (hardback) Rating: 6.0/10         What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter …

Review: Nevernight – Nevermore Will I Give into Hype

Title: Nevernight (Nevernight Chronicle 1) Author: Jay Kristoff Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Release Date: August 6th, 2016 Genre(s): Fantasy Subjects and Themes: Fantasy School, Assassins, Revenge Page Count: 448 (hardback) Rating: 6.0/10 In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who …

Review: A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery – AncestryDNA: Three Musketeers Edition

Hey, everyone! Sorry for being rather absent for the last week and a half. I've been super busy preparing for a neuroscience conference and it's been kind of a mentally taxing endeavour. But I'll be back on Monday to catch up on posts and comments! Meanwhile, enjoy this slightly overdue review!   Title: A Labyrinth …

Review: The Gutter Prayer – A Dark, Imaginative Debut

Title: The Gutter Prayer (The Black Iron Legacy 1) Author: Gareth Hanrahan Publisher: Orbit Release Date: January 17th, 2018 Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Steampunk Subjects and Themes: Deities Page Count: 544 Rating: 8.0/10     The city of Guerdon stands eternal. A refuge from the war that rages beyond its borders. But in the ancient tunnels …

Review: The Monster Baru Cormorant – A Chess Game, A Lesson in Economics, And a Masterclass in Character Work

Title: The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade 2) Author: Seth Dickinson Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: October 30th, 2018 Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Subjects and Themes: Politics, Economy, LGBTQIAP+ Page Count: 464 (hardback) Rating: 9.0/10 As the long-awaited sequel to Traitor Baru Cormorant, Monster was one of my two most anticipated releases of 2018 and I …

Mini Review: Time’s Children (The Islevale Cycle 1) – A Fast-Paced Time Travel Fantasy

Hey all! It's been a terribly busy week and I've been neglecting my reading and blogging in favour of pretty much everything else. So I'll try to catch up on your comments and posts in the upcoming week. In the meantime, here's one very overdue mini review! (I told myself I would do more of …

Review: The Phoenix Empress (Their Bright Ascendancy 2) – Toppling into the Ashes

Title: The Phoenix Empress (Their Bright Ascendancy 2) Author: K. Arsenault Rivera Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: October 9th, 2018 Genre(s): Epic Fantasy, Romance Subjects and Themes: LGBTQIAP+ Page Count: 544 (paperback) Rating: 3.5/10       The Phoenix Empress picks up where The Tiger's Daughter left off, with Shizuka and Shefali reunited after eight …

Review: Bloody Rose (The Band 2) – Zigazig Ah-ing its Way to Glory

Title: Bloody Rose (The Band 2) Author: Nicholas Eames Publisher: Orbit Release Date: August 28th, 2018 Genre(s) and Subject(s): Epic Fantasy, Humour Page Count: 560 (paperback) Goodreads Rating: 8.5/10         Before we dive in, let me just mention that Chapter One of Bloody Rose sees our protagonist reverse-mansplaining to an idiot and …

Review: Fire Dance – Beautiful and Etched with Heartrending Loneliness

Title: Fire Dance Author: Ilana C. Myer Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: April 10th, 2018 Genre(s): Fantasy Page Count: 368 (hardback) Goodreads Rating: 9.5/10         That, he believed, was the essence of what it meant to be a poet. Not to work magic. Rather it was to see, and weave verse from, …