RULE OF THE AURORA KING by Nisha J. Tuli. Orbit Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. After all her ordeals in the Sun Queen Trials, it appears Lor has traded one prison for another, and after years of her imprisonment at his father’s hands, she now finds herself captive… Read More »RULE OF THE AURORA KING
Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20: Operation Vesta By Modiphius, c2022, Price: £6.00 GBP, Website Review by Seth Stauffer Nazis, Mi-Go, and freakish science experiments, Oh my! Modiphius has a mission for Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 called Operation Vesta featuring all of the above. The PCs are tasked with investigating some deranged Nazi research and… Read More »Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20: Operation Vesta. RPG Review
Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner HarperVoyager, HB, £14.53 Reviewed by Mikaela Silk Kissen has taken her revenge on the god who killed her family. But revenge doesn’t come without a price. Now, more alone than ever and with the world thinking she is dead, Kissen must make her way back home… Read More »Sunbringer
Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20: Ressurection Men. by Modiphius, c2023. Price: £2.00, Website Review by Seth Stauffer Somewhere, in trenches mostly forgotten about after the Great War, ghouls set up a colony. No one realized what was happening until corpses from battlefields began disappearing decades later. Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20’s release Priority Mission… Read More »Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20: Ressurection Men. RPG Review
Call of Cthulhu – Nameless Horrors- 2nd Edition, by Chaosium, c2023, Price: £17.71, Website Review by Seth Stauffer No matter how terrifying the horrors investigators may experience in Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu, there will undoubtedly be a canny few that somehow preserve their sanity long enough to become grizzled veterans.… Read More »Call of Cthulhu – Nameless Horrors- 2nd Edition. RPG Review
Allen Ashley reviews the in-person exhibition “Fantasy: Realms of the Imagination” at The British Library, London, running from 27 October 2023 to 25 February 2024
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong Hodderscape, pb, £14.85 Reviewed by Joely Black Immortal Longings is a young adult fantasy pitched as a retelling of Anthony and Cleopatra. I don’t normally like either romance or young adult fantasy, but as this is my period of study, I was curious to see… Read More »Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). This week, we meet Allen Stroud, who will deliver a workshop on the readers’ imagination for the BFS this month.
Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry Titan, £9.99, Paperback Reviewed by Melody Bowles Good Girls Don’t Die is a compelling thriller set in four parts. Each of the first three parts centres around a different narrator trapped in a world they find horrifyingly familiar. It is an extremely well-written… Read More »Good Girls Don’t Die
Continuing to shine a light on the wonderful volunteers who help keep the BFS running, we now meet our fabulous Chair, Shona Kinsella.