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We are a blog of passionate book reviewers who love anything from fantasy to sci-fi and self published works. Active since 2007. Blogger judges in SPFBO from 2015. Find us at fantasybookcritic.blogs
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Happy book birthday to ON VICIOUS WORLDS by @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social@fantasybookcritic.bsky.socialawfulagent.com/ebooks/on-vi...

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The Uncanny Cosmic Horror Zombie Almanac
The Uncanny Cosmic Horror Zombie Almanac

More-or-less monthly updates on things from author Peter Clines

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On Vicious Worlds by Bethany Jacobs is a stellar follow-up to These Burning Stars, keeping the tensions as high as the stakes in this thrilling sequel. The ending of These Burning Stars was always going to be hard to beat, but On Vicious Worlds does its best to come close.

Review: On Vicious Worlds by Bethany Jacobs
Review: On Vicious Worlds by Bethany Jacobs

Speculative fiction book reviews.

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Blood Price by Nicole Evans is a brutal atmospheric journey as one woman tries to save her people by going on a quest to confront the gods themselves. If you love watching characters battle the elements & grapple with their personal emotional demons, then you'll likely enjoy sinking into this story

Review: Blood Price by Nicole Evans
Review: Blood Price by Nicole Evans

Speculative fiction book reviews.

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oh hey, we have pinned posts now. I'm 2.5 books into a New Weird trilogy about warlocks trying to save a world that keeps eating itself.

The covers for The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge. LEFT: at dawn, a ship sails out to sea. The cityscape in the foreground is fungal. RIGHT: three figures stand in silhouette above a burning city.
Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it.

The steel city of Radovan is consumed by fire between. Stranded in its harbor is the crew of the Kopek, the survivors of a bioterror attack overseas. But they bear scars: their captain, Sibbi, has gone missing; Yat, their newest Weaver, is fighting for control of her own mind; and their Weaving powers are in a badly weakened state.

To disable the technology that prevents the group from escaping, Sen and Kiada must plot their way through the ruins of the foreign capital, which is patrolled by a hostile militia, using wits alone. But to navigate through Radovan, Kiada will have to rely on her own history with the city—one she shares with a band of misfits dubbed Fort Tomorrow and their leader, Ari, a charismatic thief.

Ari may hold the key not only to saving Radovan from complete annihilation, but the history of their world, which will come into play as the gods begin to unleash destruction on humanity and one another.
Praise for THE DAWNUOUNDS 
"Intensely humane and beautiful. Stronach's richly imagined world is never too heavy for itself: shot through with black humor at every turn, it is nonetheless tender and sympathetic while also being starkly unsentimental. Part police procedural, part queer fever dream, part love letter to a city that doesn't exist: Stronach makes the impossible look easy. Its distinctly Kiwi voice is a new salvo for New Zealand fantasy on an international stage. I loved it." —Tamsyn Muir, New York Times bestselling author of Gideon the Ninth "Fiercely queer. A strange and wondrous reimagining of noir that takes its cues from biopunk and SE Asian mythos to create something wholly different. There's real imagination at work here—I loved it." —Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning and Black Sun "Worldbuilding at its peak. The Dawnhounds heaves with life, a tan-gible sense of cosmic power simmering from the waters around this port city and from the people trying to save it. Just don't call them heroes, aye." 
—Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends 
"The Dawnhounds roots in the mind like a night garden, vital and voracious. I can't get it out of my head." —Amal El-Mohtar, award-winning coauthor of This Is How You Lose the Time War 
"The Dawnhounds packs hard-hitting, mind-bending weirdness into a story that's still touching and human. If you're looking for gritty queer spec fic that isn't unrelentingly grim, you've found it." —Casey Lucas, award-winning author of Into the Mire "The tones of Stronach and Pratchett are enormously similar. . . . Delightful." —Octavia Cade, author of The Mythology of Salt and Other Stories
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Review of THE PHOENIX KEEPER by S. A. MacLean, a cozy fantasy novel with a zoo containing mythical creatures that I had mixed feelings about since I loved the animals but was underwhelmed by everything else. www.fantasybookcafe.com/2024/10/revi...

Review of The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. MacLean | Fantasy Cafe
Review of The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. MacLean | Fantasy Cafe

Review of 2024 book release THE PHOENIX KEEPER by S. A. MacLean, a cozy fantasy debut novel with a zoo for mythical creatures.

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Have you checked out the Day Of The Dragon indie fantasy sale, @ryancahill.bsky.social@jaandrews.bsky.social@quenbyolson.bsky.social, Michael R. Miller, Philip C. Quaintrell & Andy Peloquin. There’s a ton of ebooks on sale for less than a buck & you can get special editions for a discount too.

Day of the Dragon — Ryan Cahill
Day of the Dragon — Ryan Cahill

WELCOME TOTHE DAY OF THE DRAGON 2024! This is the Day of the Dragon’s second year in existence, and I genuinely can’t wait to show you everything in store!

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Tordotcom posted this on their Instagram, so I'm posting it here! The cover for Queen Demon, art by Cynthia Sheppard, design by Christine Foltzer, out next year on July 8, now available for preorder in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.

The cover of Queen Demon, with Kai leaping or running down toward the lefthand side of the art. He's dressed in blue, purple, and gold, a dark veil slightly tugged over his eyes, hair and veil and purple coat streaming behind him.
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We are a blog of passionate book reviewers who love anything from fantasy to sci-fi and self published works. Active since 2007. Blogger judges in SPFBO from 2015. Find us at fantasybookcritic.blogs
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