Category: fantasy
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The Girl With Ghost Eyes by M. H. Boroson is the first book in the Daoshi Chronicles. It tells the story of Li-lin, a young woman who is a Daoshi priestess in Chinatown towards the end of the nineteenth century. She works with her father, another high-ranking Daoshi priest, where she unintentionally gets caught up…
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Dragons of the Dwarven Depths is volume one of the Lost Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It is a companion series to the Dragonlance Chronicles and takes place just after the events of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Having killed the dragonlord Verminaard the heroes are working to find a place for the refugees…
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The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman is the first book in the series of the same name. Irene works in the library as a librarian whose job is to travel to alternate realities in order to find rare and/or one of a kind works of literature, many of which are found in only one alternate…
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Heir of Sea and Fire is the second book in the Riddle Master Trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip and continues the story started in the first book. It opens almost a year after the end of the previous book but focuses on Raederle, the young woman who was to be betrothed to Morgon, and her…
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In Spellbound, book two of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia, the adventure continues for Jake Sullivan and Faye Vierra as things get rather dark. It opens with an attack on the new president, FDR, by an active magic user but this is also an attack that works to frame the Grimnoir society and thus…
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Sometimes you just need to read a good adventure story and Relentless Blades, book one of the Prophecies of Zarune, by Russell Carroll is just that. It tells the story of Grimlock, known as Grim, a young ranger tormented by the humans he is trying to protect and desperately trying to find his place in…
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In The Kingdom of Copper, book two of the Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty, we return to the intricacies of djinn politics. It picks up five years after the end of the previous book, The City of Brass, with Ali having spent those five years bringing water and growth to the Geziris. Dara has…
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No Man’s Daughter by T. H. Abram is the first book in The Oath of Woe series and is also an extremely unusual book in many ways. It tells the story of two young people, each starting a different journey. Sadia lives in the city of Qasira with several other children, her adopted siblings, doing…
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The God of Lost Words is the third and final book in the Hell’s Library series by A. J. Hackwith. It picks up some time after the end of the second book when the employees of the library are faced with a new threat. The demon Malphas, the same one who threatened the library previously,…
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This next book took me back to the beginning of a series that I unintentionally started in the middle. A while back I read the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb and I mentioned that it didn’t feel like it was the start of the story. Turns out I was right and that series is…