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Review Tag: Fantasy
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This is the second book in the series, following up to the successful Assistant to The Villain. Evie Sage is the titular apprentice, working for the dishy…
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Temujin has usurped his father as Khan of the Ilkhanate, but his work is not done. He is still at war with his father’s brother, Berke, and…
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Funny things, anthologies. Were they ever as popular as they are right now? Arguably, the form has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, and rightly so. This…
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Still grieving for Bêlit, his pirate queen lover, Conan drinks to numbness. On one such occasion, he meets Gudrun, Hunwolf, and their young son Bjørn. The small…
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There is a tradition of horror novels isolating a community or group of people and having nasty things happen to them, often involving rather gruesome deaths. Authors…
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Sometimes it is difficult to know where the boundaries between genres lie. While the intelligent reader is looking for well-crafted prose, good characters and an interesting plot,…
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In a time about a hundred years ago, Bea is a young wife married to a kind and bumbling jeweller, spending her days working in the silver…
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‘Out of the Window, Into the Dark’ is Marian Womack’s denouement for 2024 at least, and already 3 of its stories have been nominated for the BSFA…
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