While Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier is pretty far under the radar in the fantasy world, there are a couple Redditors who seem to regularly like the same kinds of books I like and who have been evangelizing it for a while now. I had a pretty good idea that it would fit my Bingo theme… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier
The Nine by Tracy Townsend incorporates plenty of tropes that were popular in 2010s fantasy—the grimy secondary world setting, the thieving lead, the proliferation of factions—but passed wildly under the radar after its 2017 release. I’m not sure I’d have heard of it if not for one Redditor consistently singing its praises and actually buying… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Nine by Tracy Townsend
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon was released on August 26, 2025. My first exposure to Mizuki Tsujimura was a couple years ago when I read the tremendous Lonely Castle in the… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura
When I returned from genre-reading hiatus in the mid-2010s, Malazan was inescapable. Tell someone you read fantasy and they would inevitably ask about one of three things: Kingkiller, Malazan, or Brandon Sanderson. At the time, I’d read none of the three (apart from Sanderson’s Wheel of Time co-authorship), but a decade later, I finally decided… Continue reading Fantasy Book Review: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. The Memory Hunters was released on July 29, 2025. Seeing a romance reference and an Indiana Jones name-check in the first line of the blurb had me ready to skip Mia Tsai’s new fantasy, The Memory… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai
We’ve reached the finals of the fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4), and the three finalists chosen on my team’s side of the bracket have been joined by three more from the other side. Over the course of the summer, we’ll be reading and scoring these three books that came with such glowing recommendations… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: Whiskey and Warfare by E.M. Hamill
This review is based on an eARC (Advance Reading Copy) provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. A Song of Legends Lost will be released on June 3, 2025. A Song of Legends Lost is a debut epic fantasy novel from M.H. Ayinde. While I don’t read as much epic fantasy… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: A Song of Legends Lost by M.H. Ayinde
The fourth annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC4) has advanced to the semifinals, where my team’s two semifinalists will join four others in one of the competition’s two semifinal groups, each of which will be read by multiple judging teams in order to select a top three to advance to the finals. And my first… Continue reading Sci-fi Novel Review: On Impulse by Heather Texle
With WorldCon and NetGalley memberships pushing my reading more and more toward new releases, I knew that the Published in the 90s square of 2024 r/Fantasy Bingo would require me to reshuffle the TBR. Fortunately, I had plenty of options sitting on my bookcase unread, I just had to pick one. And that one was… Continue reading Fantasy Novel Review: Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
Ancillary Justice got a ton of hype upon its release in 2013, racking up a dizzying number of genre awards and garnering praise for its inventive handling of gender and nonhuman intelligence, in addition to being an excellent space opera. But I was on hiatus from genre reading in 2013, and so while I’d been… Continue reading Sci-fi Book Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
