See part I of Teresa Frohock’s Religion in Fantasy here. Fantasy has tackled religion from all directions: the real God versus False Gods; Rival Gods; Phantom Gods; No Gods. Twilights of the Gods. God versus Devil. Pagan Gods versus Christianity. Eastern versus Western. God is Dead/Risen/Never was. Magic comes from God. Magic comes from the…
Vicious is Victoria Schwab’s first adult novel. Over the past month or so I’ve had times where I went several days between books. I’ve even temporarily shelved a few of my most anticipated books this year – Scott Lynch’s Republic of Thieves and Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice to name two. The former, though reviews have been somewhat…
Back in May, Mark blogged about having several extra ARCs of Drakenfeld lying around. He wanted to help out new bloggers, so he sent them to various ones to help get the proverbial ball rolling. Naturally, I was very excited and grateful for the opportunity. The cover immediately caught my attention. It’s elegant, bold, and, next…
Paul Kearney’s The Ten Thousand was actually the first of his work that caught my eye. It’s a modern retelling of the Anabasis, Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon’s first-hand account of the heroism of Greeks in an expedition to help Cyrus the Younger usurp the Persian throne from his brother, Artaxerxes II. I thoroughly enjoyed Kearney’s writing…
The Master of Horror, Stephen King, once said he was: The Big Mac and fries of literature. Having just had my first novel Gape published then, I suppose I must be the day-old sandwich stuck at the back of a fridge in the rear of a gas station of literature. The fridge would probably have…
