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Review: Venus Lionheart: The Witch and The God by Dino Costi

Venus Lionheart: The Witch and The God by Dino Costi is an action-packed Young Adult fantasy novel.

Venus Lionheart isn’t like the other kids in her small sleepy town. At the age of twelve she’s experiencing visions and out-of-body experiences. This troubles her. But when a mysterious man shows up at her house on the last day of school Venus’s life is about to get much more complicated. Galahad tells Venus that she is indeed different. In fact, she’s a witch and there are people who want to harm her.

The hunters are the Grey Men, who are merciless in […]

Review: Keeper Chronicles: Awakening by Katherine Wynter

Awakening Urban fantasy Keeper Chronicles: Awakening by Katherine Wynter is a fantastic adventure with demonic activity, romance and psychic powers all wrapped up in the beauty and magic of a lighthouse seascape.

Author Wynter brings alive the setting from the first page. Readers will be able to taste the salty waves as they crash into the powerful lighthouse at Cape Creek Bridge as lightning strikes. Rebekah is our protagonist, but there are a number of other female players, all with strong personalities from the off. Rebekah is a hardy and rounded heroine that will carry with the reader during her turmoil […]

Cate Baum2015-02-02T09:11:59+02:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: The Arrow by Maureen O’Leary

The Arrow by Maureen O'Leary Based on an old Gaelic myth, The Arrow is about Fynn Kildare, one of two daughters of Saint Brigid, a “Divine” goddess with miraculous powers of healing. As a teenager, Fynn lived with her family on a centuries-old fortress of Brigid’s Keep, out in the ocean, off the coast of the town of St. Cocha, using her healing magic on the sick and weary who were able to travel to them. When a patient turned out to be a trap set by a witch, Fynn realized and – too late to draw back – becomes infected with a demon virus […]

Naka Jackson2015-02-02T09:08:19+02:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: Five Days Dead by James L. Davis

In an uncertain future, humanity finally achieves its greatest technological breakthrough with cold fusion, and with the rise of growing political climates toward conservation, recedes into a technological utopia of the Hubs, interlinked cities across the world.

The decision of the majority of the population is solidified by the invention of the Link – a web-like virtual reality “Digiverse” – and the coming of the Rages, apocalyptic occurrences of unknown origin ranging from rapid climate changes to all animal life on the planet becoming wildly hostile to humans, and only humans.

It’s in these “intrestin” times that one Harley Nearwater […]

James Grimsby2014-12-18T07:13:46+02:00December 18th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: The Arrival by Dakota Kemp

The Arrival (Ascension Book 1) is a fantasy epic by Dakota Kemp, and is the winner of the Full Moon Awards 2014 Fantasy Prize.

The book tells the story of several figures in the world of Vrold, where war has begun to tear its peoples apart when brutal attacks spring out and turn up tensions and open old wounds between city-states.

As battle rears its ugly head, heroes – likely and not – begin to answer their individual calls to action across the land, their fates intertwined through a web of secrets: the young officer Kelvar Alexandros who finds […]

James Grimsby2014-12-03T10:39:38+02:00December 3rd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: The Lycetta Legacy by SJ Oaksley

lycetta legacy The Lycetta Legacy, Book One, by SJ Oaksley is a clever new addition to the young adult fantasy genre.

Julia Lynch is a seventeen-year-old girl who thinks she has a normal life. Like most teens her age, she hates her part-time job and enjoys spending time with her friends. Julia and her mother are really close, especially after the tragic death of Julia’s father two years earlier.

One afternoon, when Julia takes a shortcut through an alleyway on her way home from work she’s mugged. This event changes her life drastically. A mysterious man and his acquaintance come to […]

T B Markinson2015-01-08T00:36:41+02:00November 26th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

Lost Library by Kate Baray

Lost Library by Kate Baray is the first novel in the “Lost Library” urban fantasy romance series, which so far comprises three novels and three short stories. That investment in world-building is very evident in these pages: the book is both carefully detailed and fast-paced, which will appeal to more readers than those interested in romance.

The book follows Lizzie, a 36-year-old woman who’s at once engaging and fairly bored with her life. That is until a mysterious book bound in leather arrives on her doorstep. She soon discovers that the writing on the pages changes whenever she opens it, […]

Henry Baum2014-11-21T06:11:42+02:00November 21st, 2014|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: When Elves Die by Richard Poche

When Elves Die is the debut novel of author Richard Poche. It’s a traditional medieval fantasy tale, with all the mainstays and characterizations that are expected from the dark fantasy genre.

Here we have tribal clans of elves, cruel, brutish orcs, violent martial barbarians, evil witches, pure princesses, and even vampire-like creatures called killtooths. In essence, When Elves Die is a survival tale, following a multitude of protagonists (some fleeting, some not) including Princess Carella, Zanfire the Cleric, Kelroar the Barbarian, and a veritable host of elven (or half-elven) characters. It is up to Carella and the rest of her […]

Dakota Kemp2014-11-21T11:10:43+02:00November 20th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|