Book Review: In Shadows We Fall by Devin Madson

In Shadows We Fall is a fantasy novella by Devin Madson and is the winner of the 2017 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella. Set in an Asian-inspired world, it is a prequel to the author’s The Vengeance Trilogy and is, in my opinion, well worth its prize-winning pedigree! I picked this book up having …

Five of the Best: Friendship

Hi everyone! So the other week I started a new series of posts called 'Five of the Best'. The premise is pretty simple: I’ll pick five books that I think are amongst the best books going in a particular category/area and give a brief explanation of why I like them so much. The previous post …

Book Review: The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter

This review may contain spoilers for the previous book in the series – The Rage of Dragons. The Fires of Vengeance is the sequel to Evan Winter’s phenomenal debut novel, The Rage of Dragons, and the second book in his The Burning series. The Rage of Dragons was one of my favourite books of 2020 …

Five of the Best: Prologues

Hi everyone! So, I've decided to do a bit of thing here and start a new series of posts. How exciting! This is going to be the first of something I'll be calling 'Five of the Best'. The idea behind the series will be simple – I'll pick five books that I think are amongst …

Book Review: The Gatewatch by Joshua Gillingham

The Gatewatch by Joshua Gillingham is not a standard modern fantasy. It has a lot more in common with more ‘classical’ fantasy than a lot of what is published today and it brings bucket loads of whimsy and charm to a story that is heavily inspired by Norse mythology. At its core, it is an …

Book Review: The Solar War by John French

The Solar War by John French is the opening book in the Siege of Terra series – which in itself is the climax to the absolutely humongous (54 books!) Horus Heresy series. So, with all that, it feels like writing this book would bring a lot of pressure and that it is juggling a lot …

Horus Heresy Mini-Reviews: Master of Mankind, Wolfsbane, Slaves to Darkness

Hi everyone! Those of you that follow me on Twitter, will have seen that I ran a poll a week or so ago. I was struggling with what book to read first this year. I knew I wanted to read something set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and gave the options of The Solar War, …

Book Review: A Fool’s Hope by Mike Shackle

Warning: This review may contain spoilers for the previous book in the series, We Are The Dead. A Fool’s Hope by Mike Shackle is the superb sequel to We Are The Dead. It takes all that was great about that opening book of The Last War trilogy and runs with it in a story that, …

Books & Series I want to read in 2021

Hi everyone! So it's now 2021. Thank god 2020 is over! Anyway, let's move onto a more cheerful topic: books and reading! As a reader, I have quite the TBR pile – I'm sure the rest of you do too. However, some books really jump out from the pile and move to near the top …

My 2020 in Book Covers

Hi everyone! Time for a quick post on this last day of 2020... Thank god for that! Last year I did this same post with all the book covers from that year and really enjoyed it. It is very gratifying to see all the books I have read this year in one place and share …