Uncanny and Transcendent Fiction
Jathen is the crown prince of the Tazu Kingdom, a draconic people who have the ability to shift from a scaly, humanoid form to full dragon form. The only problem is that Jathen is a pink-skinned, scaleless, moot. The motif of the story sets up a interesting conflict for the protagonist and is essentially a travel […]
Read More Book Review of Way Walker: Tangled Paths by J LeighMy rating: 3 of 5 stars Send the two dumbass timenauts you have back in the past to retrieve a bar of chocolate; what’s the worst that can happen? Oh, only a chronological apocalypse that will wipe out the world as we know it. Kim Howard Johnson is the author of True Brit, a unique […]
Read More Book Review: Kim Howard Johnson’s The Last of the Time Police (The Time Authority#1)My rating: 3 of 5 stars Gamers and movie-goers are probably now going to be familiar with mechs and giant robots, especially in content from the sf genre. Think Pacific Rim and Transformers, or Armoured Core and Zone of Enders. But how many times have you come across giant robots trying to wipe out humanity […]
Read More Book Review: Rage of the Old Gods, by Tyler EdwardsHowell’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. HowellShatter by Elizabeth C. Mock My rating: 3 of 5 stars Shatter is the first book in the trilogy, The Children of Man. When magic of Light was misused by the sorcerers, in order to safeguard it from being abused again, magic was split into different colours and each colour became championed by colleges and […]
Read More Review: Elizabeth C Mock’s Shatter