High Fantasy

Content/Trigger Warning: Serious gore at times A few mentions of rape and non-consensual body modification Cannibalism  Jimenez does not pull any punches in this book. It tells the history of a people and that is often times violent and messy. If any of these make you uncomfortable then please put your mental health first and reconsider reading this novel. The…

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Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for letting me read an e-ARC of The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu. Based on the concept “What if the prophecy was wrong?”, The Art of Prophecy takes place on a constantly evolving political and physical landscape. The five Zhuun duchies live lives familiar to many readers, settled in communities…

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Melnibone is an empire that has dedicated itself to hedonism and sadism for centuries, dominating and subjugating the surrounding kingdoms. Over time their hold on the other lands failed and their own power diminished. Melnibone is now a shadow of what she once was. Emperor Elric is the rightful ruler but not the one that Melnibone wants. He does not…

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Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for letting me read an e-ARC of Saint Death Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney. There is no way that I could write a blurb for a book whose events and plot twist and turn like Lanie’s hair on the front cover, so I’m just going to use the publisher’s:  “Nothing complicates life…

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A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy is the second in the Black Dawn series and is the first anarchist utopian fantasy that I have read. AKC publishing was kind enough to send me this arc without expecting a review in return but the longer I sit with the concepts Killjoy describes, the more I want to talk about it.…

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