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Review Tag: Fantasy
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Eat The Ones You Love is such a great title. I expected plant-based horror akin to The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham or A Botanical…
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I really enjoyed this fantasy novel, combining almost futuristic-leaning magic with intriguing and intricate politics, and a broad range of convincing characters. I worried at the start…
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The sequel to the very funny How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, Wexler does not disappoint with the tricky second book in the Dark…
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After ‘Hail the New Age’ at the end of last year, Mike Chinn returns us to the cold-hearted Ramini Republic in ‘Citadel of the Moon’. It’s a…
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Prequels are always an interesting proposition. There’s a line to walk between what readers of the original work expect from the characters and writing an original story…
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The Wren family are your typical dysfunctional wealthy dynasty: a distant, but brilliant father (Thayer Wren); an ambitious and equally brilliant older sister (Meredith Wren); the unambitious…
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From the moment she hatched, it was clear that Demelza was different from her sisters. She didn’t have wings, and her singing voice, although powerful as a…
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Witchborne is set in the small town of Locklear, in a world that resembles medieval Western society in many ways, but where, instead of God, ‘Gods’ are…
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‘Oh, the horror!’ wails a student damned to the first circle of R. F. Kuang’s hell. ‘Oh, to not be clever!’ Katabasis (2025)traces a Cambridge postgraduate’s journey…
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