Author of Muslim Fantasy & Host of the Fantasy & Faith Podcast
Howell’s Healer’s Touch is an interesting twist on a stock fantasy character class. Instead of Healers being gentle and mild-mannered clerics, they are highly feared by the populace and coveted by military powers for their destructive abilities. Healer’s Touch title character, Llew is a street urchin who has suffered abandonment by both parents at a […]
Read More Book Review: Healer’s Touch by Deb E. HowellMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Nightingale is the first in a series of urban fantasy books by David Farland, bestselling author of the Runelord fantasy series and mentor to a whole new generation of bestselling genre writers. Nightingale is about a changeling boy named Bron Jones who has been raised through the social welfare […]
Read More Book Review: Nightingale by David FarlandBlope by Sean Benham My rating: 1 of 5 stars BLOPE is an sf story set in an alternate reality in which Taiwan (the Eternally Free Taiwan) is the world power, and its Emperor has won a big chunk of America in a Russian Roulette game against the US President. The Emperor decides to run […]
Read More Book Review: Sean Benham’s BlopeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This is book three in the Double Helix series. If you haven’t read the first two books, then you should take a hint and go read them before you finish reading this review. The Double Helix series has already won a number of awards for author Jade Kerrion and […]
Read More Book Review: Perfect Weapon, Double Helix #3My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the sequel to the award-winning Perfection Unleashed. It starts where the original left off. Danyael Sabre, the world’s most powerful empath arrives home with no memory of the last two days. At his apartment he finds a beautiful and dangerous mercenary waiting for him, Zara Itani. She […]
Read More Review: Perfect Betrayal by Jade KerrionMy rating: 4 of 5 stars The Emerald Forge is a return to the world of Pilgrennon’s Children,in which an unscrupulous scientist experimented on human embryos to combine technology with the human mind. The first was lobotimized, the second and third developed severe autism and the fourth turned into a sociopath, but the fifth, with […]
Read More Book Review: The Emerald Forge by Manda BensonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars A boy on a boat with a tiger hardly sounds like something that could hold your attention over 401 pages. You will find the Life of Pi filed under Literary works, although Wikipedia claims its a fantasy adventure, which I am sure many readers would contest. But the story […]
Read More Book Review: Life of Pi, by Yann MartelMy rating: 4 of 5 stars David Wolverton (better known by his pseudonym, David Farland) is a master of utilizing resonance in writing, a fact that is starkly evident in the Golden Queen. The book resonates strongly with the Star Wars mythos, which makes sense as Wolverton has written a number of Star Wars expanded […]
Read More Review: The Golden Queen, A Masterclass in ResonanceMy rating: 3 of 5 stars The Millennial Sword is an Arthurian tale set in modern day San Francisco. It follows the exploits of Viveka Jansen, a PR accounts junior and the newest Lady of the Lake. Her adventures begin when she is given a sword by an old hippy lady and informed that it […]
Read More Book Review: The Millennial Sword by Shannon PhilipsHalcyon is the name of a virus that is infecting cybernetic implants that have for several generations been used not only to enhance how a person looks, but also to improve their quality of life by eliminating genetic diseases and disorders. That is the premise of the novel, and its setting is a generic multi-level […]
Read More Review: Halcyon by Catherine Fitzsimmons