Fantasy Book Reviews

★★★½

Fantasy literature is in a Renaissance at the moment, and many new authors from around the world are doing their best to tap into this resurgent realm and engage that readership. In The Prouds by Laith Taher, readers are welcomed into a vaguely recognizable world of power struggles and royal conflicts that we see so often in fantasy sagas. The plot is about as straightforward as it can get in the fantasy realm, possibly revealing the fact that the author is making more of a philosophical statement than a literary one.

Following an epic battle between Jarvis and King […]

★★★★½

The world of Evergreen is everything its name implies, and more. A living world – a truly living, sentient planet – of beauty and magic.

But there is more to this planet that meets the eye. Settlers begin to experience changes, and lose their interest in leaving as the other races of the strange and beautiful land begin to commune, and even form families together. The planet plunges into war as Paul Rider, a half-human born from colonist and native, starts a great cleansing of non-human species. It falls to sisters Dasimbe and Cierva, as well as their friends, […]

★★★★½

Talon Stormbringer is many things – a thief, a rogue, a legend. Is he a fool too?

Tasked with finding the land of Everway by the very same wizard he tried to steal from in the first place, Talon must join forces with a band of misfits in order to find the legendary silver elixir for his new employer-by-force. The powerful artefact is only known from stories told to children to get them to sleep at night… then again, so is Everway, so who can tell what’s fact and fiction?

For Talon’s sake, one can only hope that tales […]