The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey Titan Books, hardback, £16.99 Reviewed by Stephen Frame The Dead Take the A Train gives us Julie Crews as the main character, a magic user in present-day New York, with a train wreck for a life. Into this… Read More »The Dead Take the A Train
GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD by RJ Barker Orbit Books. h/b. £20. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Ventday, Cahan’s favourite day. Which god would the visitors be worshipping today, the young Cahan would wonder. The monks would come first. Then a parade. An excitement. But only ever passing through. They never stop… Read More »Gods of the Wyrdwood
The Book of Love by Kelly Link Head of Zeus, HB, £20.24 Reviewed by Rym Kechacha A Kelly Link fan is a reader well-versed in folklore and mythology and all the ways those things can get tricksy on you. A reader who is delighted when magic turns up in unexpected… Read More »The Book of Love
The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker Hodderscape, hardback, £16.99 Reviewed by Nadya Mercik When I looked at the blurb of The Scarlett Alchemist, I was intrigued by the mixture of the Chinese world and alchemy, although, in general, I don’t read many YA novels. In the end, the book… Read More »The Scarlet Alchemist
Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks Edited by Pam Lock British Library, p/b, £9.99 Review by Tori Borne The British Library’s latest instalment to their Tales of the Weird series, Dead Drunk, features a collection of harrowing tales where drunkenness, the supernatural and moral degeneration all interlock.… Read More »Dead Drunk
Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham Orbit Books, pb, £18.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Kithamar has always stood. A centre of trade and wealth, it has developed over time from a fortress protecting the Hansch kingdom from the nomadic Inlisc or the start of an invading force of Hansch, depending… Read More »Age of Ash
Godzilla Minus One written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki Starring: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki Reviewed by Matthew Palmer In the final days of WWII, kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima abandons his mission, setting his plane down at the Oda Island navy outpost, claiming mechanical failure. That… Read More »Godzilla Minus One
And Break the Pretty Kings by Lena Jeong Magpie, pb, £9.19 Reviewed by Mikaela Silk Mirae had always known she would be Queen one day, had always known she would have to undergo the three trials and take over the sacred duty of protecting the kingdom with her ancestral magic.… Read More »And Break the Pretty Kings
THE BITTER CROWN by Justin Lee Anderson. Orbit Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Still coming to terms with the shocking truth, Aranok, Allandria and Nirea, among others, must race to save their people from not just the threat of the Blackening nor the demons that came so close… Read More »The Bitter Crown
The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab Titan Books, h/b £18.99, Ebook £9.99 Review by Tori Borne In 2015, fantasy lovers were graced by American author V.E. Schwab with the first of the Shades of Magic series, A Darker Shade of Magic, introducing to us not just one world… Read More »The Fragile Threads of Power