I seem to make a lot of crass confessions on here, so why stop now? For someone who listens to a lot of audiobooks (or maybe because), I hardly ever listen to podcasts. When I saw this book on the shelves at my library, I knew nothing about it, only finding out about the podcast by reading the blurb on […]
Erik Henry Vick has been around for a while and is well-known in independent dark fantasy circles. The Demon King isn’t his first book, but the first of his I have read (listened to). What we have here is a story about a small town where evil entities are taking children. The book has two distinct timelines where the children […]
I actually got an ARC of this book from Netgalley, but then found we had the audio at my local library, so I plumped for that instead, as I listen to way more audio these days as I have less time to sit on my butt and read. I was excited to get this one. Steven Pressfield has been on […]
This is my third review for Self-Published Authors Appreciation Week, and this time around I’m introducing a debut author – I got this ARC from Booksprout, essentially Netgalley for self-published authors. I don’t use them often, but I have found some gems there – like this book. This is the first book by the author, HL Tinsley, who has done […]
Post #2 of Self-Published Author Appreciation Week belongs to Michael R Miller and his book Ascendant. I’ve been reading self-published books for maybe five years, and I feel like MRM has been around forever. This isn’t the first book of his that I have read (some may argue otherwise), but he kindly gave me an audio copy of his Dragon’s […]
I reviewed the excellent The Traitor God back in 2020, so, based on my current rate of reviewing, I probably read it in 1920. However, despite reading the book in the previous millennium, I remember it well as it was great. The God of Broken Things, the sequel and seemingly final book in the series, is even better. In TTG, […]
One of my last ARCs from Netgalley, for reasons only beknownst to me. As per usual, all opinions are my own, although I can’t guarantee that since my recent COVID vaccination. Anyway… Who doesn’t love a bit of Lovecraftian writing? Yeah, well what would you know? I digress. This is a new entry into the Arkham Horror series by the […]
If you’re a regular reader of self-published or independent fantasy (if not, why not?), you’ve probably heard of Sarah Chorn, an editor par excellence for many of the big names such as Rob J Hayes and Michael R Fletcher. Turns out she is quite the author too. This is the first of her books that I have read, and it […]
I’ve been a fan of JW Webb’s work for a while now. He sets his books in a world called Ansu, which is akin to early CE Celtic through to Viking times, in my amateur opinion. While the enjoyable Corin an Fol has been his primary character for a while, he broadens his world’s horizons with a new MC, Jaran […]
I’ve gotten into Alan Baxter’s work over the last couple of years, and have enjoyed the hell out of it, comparing him at one stage as a successor to some guy named Clive Barker. He writes in the same vein – (relatively) everyday folk caught in bizarre situations. I read the first book in the series – Manifest Recall (review […]
