The Vampire’s Housekeeper Chronicles [novella series] By J Bennet Reviewed by martin willoughby This is a six-novella series about a young woman called Deidre who takes a job as a housekeeper for an old vampire called Nathaniel. They are witty and well-written, with human and supernatural characters the reader can… Read More »The Vampire’s Housekeeper Chronicles [novella series] by J Bennet
The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard Gollancz, HB, £18.99 Reviewed by Michael Dodd Pirates, politics, sentient ships and unlikely romance all collide in Aliette de Bodard’s sapphic space opera The Red Scholar’s Wake. Captured by bloodthirsty pirates, the last thing scavenger Xich Si expects is a marriage proposal… Read More »The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard from @gollancz
AUGUST KITKO AND THE MECHAS FROM SPACE by Alex White. Orbit Books. p/b. £8.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. It is three years since the last ship left Earth. In the midst of a war, a Veil is in place across the galaxy, preventing interstellar communications. Vanguard Juliette, the giant mecha,… Read More »AUGUST KITKO AND THE MECHAS FROM SPACE by Alex White from @orbitbooks
DAWNSHARD by Brandon Sanderson Titan Books, hardback, £9.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan The Stormlight Archive, of which Dawnshard is a small part, is a section of a massive enterprise that Sanderson calls the Cosmere that links all his adult novels. Stormlight is the energy that can be captured and stored… Read More »DAWNSHARD by Brandon Sanderson from @TitanBooks
SCORPICA by G.R. Macallister. Titan Books. p/b. £8.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Each of the five Queendoms has responsibility for a particular area of skill. Paxim has trade, while Sestia’s land is rich for farming. The Bastion has its scribes and records. In Arca, they serve Chaos and have magic… Read More »SCORPICA by G.R. Macallister from @TitanBooks
THE SOMEBODY PEOPLE By Bob Proehl Titan Books, s/b, £9.99 Reviewed by Matthew Johns The sequel to The Nobody People takes up the story of those with extraordinary abilities who had been persecuted by those with none and transposed their roles. In the first novel, the people with fantastic powers… Read More »THE SOMEBODY PEOPLE By Bob Proehl from @TitanBooks
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Episode 8 Amazon Prime, 2022 Reviewed by Steven Poore Warning: Herein Be Spoilers. With all eight episodes available for rewatching, what becomes clear is that the plan for this first season of The Rings Of Power was to wrongfoot the audience at… Read More »Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Episode 8 from Amazon Prime
HALF A SOUL by Olivia Atwater Orbit p/b £8.99 Reviewed by Nigel Robert Wilson Since my earliest days as a reader – which is now close to seventy years – I have adored the Faerie tradition. The very idea that another sentient humanoid species could live close to humanity in… Read More »HALF A SOUL by Olivia Atwater from @orbitbooks
HOOKED by A.C.Wise Titan, 334-page p/b, £8.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan Once the works of an author are out of copyright, the characters created enter the public domain and become fair game for others. There have been several approaches. Freda Warrington was commissioned to write Dracula the Undead, a sequel… Read More »HOOKED by A.C.Wise from @TitanBooks
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings MacMillan, pb, £7.91 Reviewed by Melody Bowles The Women Could Fly is narrated by Josephine, who lives in a world where people still accuse women of being witches. Josephine is twenty-eight years old and really ought to be married now. As she is… Read More »The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings from @panmacmillan