Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Warner Books Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Kate Savage Have you read this book? The Salt Roads is a fabulist tale of three women and the spirit Ezili conjured up at the graveside of a stillborn child. The collective consciousness of Africans make up the …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Penguin Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Jeff Edwards Have you read this book? Conqueror Fantastic is a collection of thirteen historical fantasy tales, running the gamut from the Aztecs and Greeks up to twentieth century America and Germany. If there is a running theme …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Wildside Press Published: 2005 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? In “The Rose of Heaven”, Rosinda, a young girl who lives in a poor community in California, has the ability to perform miracles; she can heal and even raise the …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ariadne Press CA Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Kate Savage Have you read this book? I often avoid reading fat books for the simple reason that one long book often means that my to-be-read-pile stays static or worse, grows. At 600 pages, The Exiled Prince …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? Fantasy Life begins with a young girl named Emily Buckingham setting out to visit her father. Now, Emily’s parents are recently divorced and she has not seen her daddy in …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Stone Garden Publishing Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Jeff Edwards Have you read this book? George Delgado’s world shatters when he discovers that the Earth is nothing more than a dream and that he is a dream walker. Rudely awakened to this reality, he is …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Jeff Edwards Have you read this book? Sarah Micklem breathes life into a medieval world and introduces a heroine in her debut novel, Firethorn. Unable to bear her new master, a fifteen-year-old handmaid named Luck exiles herself …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Catalyst Press Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? Here’s how Jack Ketchum begins his intro to T. M. Wright’s Cold House: “A woman and her dog, alone in an old, Cold House with many rooms, fearful of the …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Pocket Books Star Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? In his forward to Christopher Golden’s 2001 novel, Hellboy: The Bones of Giants, eponymous comic creator Mike Mignola wrote, “I think The Lost Army is great … but …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Penguin Published: 1977 Reviewer Rating: The Bane of the Black Sword, by Michael Moorcock Book Review by David L. Felts Plenty of people quote the title of Thomas Wolfe’s novel and say, “You can’t go home again.” What they mean is: that home that you remember, the …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Hellboy, the big rough-and-tumble, red-skinned devilish dude whose comic-book history tells us was accidentally brought into this world by evil Nazis at the end of WWII, and who …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Random House Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Tim Deland Have you read this book? “It has fallen upon me, now and again in my sojourn through the world, to ease various evil men of their lives.” So claims Solomon Kane, one of Robert E. Howard’s …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Gauntlet Press Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? Repairman Jack is back in his eighth novel, this one entitled Crisscross, depicting his ongoing battle against the forces of the Otherness – – the great, cosmic power apparently bent …
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: iUniverse Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? David Scott Webster’s The Grand Adventure, the first book in his Naxos Island Mages saga, is a young adult fantasy that follows two young brothers on a—you guessed it!–grand adventure. …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Quiet Storm Books Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Eric J. Brooks Have you read this book? The most important two words which need first be written in describing Betnoni’s Prophecy, are profoundly real. Elizabeth Merz has channeled a world strongly anchored in a desert planet …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Random House Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? Hot on the heels of Dark Moon, and having enjoyed it so much, I decided to revisit Echoes of the Great Song. I say revist because I’d had the book …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Wings ePress Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? J. C. Hall’s Lady of the Lakes… I’m not sure how to begin. There are many things to like about this book, but there are many things that indicate Hall …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ballantine Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? David Gemmell is comfort food for speculative fiction fans who crave old style heroic fantasy. Although some of his earlier work totters on (and sometimes fall off) the edge of mediocrity, …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Fire Mountain Press Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: No Stars! Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? From the moment I picked up A Ghost Among Us, I was overcome with a sick sense of literary foreboding. It was almost as if a …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: iUniverse Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Carpenter Have you read this book? Hansel and Gretel Meet the Fisher King Inside the Enchanted Castle starts off with a climactic scene: the evil witch Turbidine lays waste and ruin to the enchanted fantasy realm of Porphyria …
