Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1993 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? What a wonderful title, giving a brilliant precis of the story–almost worth 4 stars in itself. And an equally good story line. The action takes place in a alternate earth where …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Eggplant Productions Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Writing good erotica is a delicate matter. Too much sensuality may repulse readers; not enough may bore them to death. All too often erotica is predictable and formulaic, becoming …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Bluejack Have you read this book? Welcome to The Troy Game, the latest major project by the prolific Australian Sara Douglass. This immense volume (or, as this kind of thing is sometimes called, ‘word cube’) is the first of …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Roc Published: 1998 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Heather Hunt Have you read this book? Within the first 200 pages of Jericho Moon, I was anticipating giving this historical fantasy novel a high rating. Stover has certainly done his homework on ancient history and the religions of …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1992 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? This is the second book in The Serrated Edge series. I didn’t much enjoy the first, Born to Run, but as I’d bought both books at the same time I read …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1992 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? Mercedes Lackey is best known for her Valdemar books, most of which range from good to very good. However she occasionally seems to write the first few pages of a book …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ballantine Published: 1995 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? I’ve been very effusive of my praise for David Gemmell’s ‘Rigante’ books. I’ve finished another of Mr. Gemmell’s books, this time Quest for Lost Heroes. Now, I don’t know much about the …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: NovelBooks Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Sarah Guidry Have you read this book? When I first sat down with my copy of Tyrant Moon by Elaine Corvidae, the novel did not spark much enthusiasm for me. I read the back cover, which touted the book …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? This is the second and concluding part of the Sarantine Mosaic, the first being the excellent Sailing to Sarantium. That book told the tale of the mosaicist Caius Crispus, travelling from …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? The third novel in Dave Duncan’s “King’s Blades” setting, Sky of Swords is a story of intrigue, betrayal, fear and politics rife with narrow escapes, bribery, love and, of course, swords. …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Perhaps it started with Alas, Babylon or On The Beach, but some of us can’t get enough of post-apocalyptic fiction. Or dystopias, for that matter. It may be a morbid fascination, but …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? The second book of Dave Duncan’s ‘King’s Blades’ series begins as a book of the King’s Blades but then morphs into something else. While two of the main characters are Blades, …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Morrow William and Co Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? Imagine that Sir Thomas More had not only lived as a master swordsman, but that he had never needed to choose sides in Henry VIII’s “Great Cause”. If you …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? Merilyn F. George’s Curse of the First Gods, the first book in her Chronicles of the Last Elder Lord saga, is the story of Sha’azharet’th, a young Dragon Lord …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Warner Books Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? The kingdom of Aghamore has been through an upheaval when it was left without a ruler many years ago. Now, the king is dead and everyone, it seems, wants to be …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ministry of Whimsy Press Published: 1998 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Is Naomi a brontosaurus? Is Eva an aged Hispanic woman? Is Alex a sentient Jeep? If these are the only questions that plague you throughout The Troika, then you …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ballantine Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? If Sword in the Storm was Morte d’Arthur and Midnight Falcon was Gladiator, then Ravenheart is part Rob Roy and part Braveheart. There’s also a fair dash of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: First Circlet Press Published: 1989 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? When this superb fantasy first appeared in print in 1989 it was published with high hopes and with little or no chance. Unfortunately, it sank like a lead feather. Unfortunate …
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: Penguin Published: 1981 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Penguin Putnam is one of the most respected names in publishing, so when they announce the addition of a new imprint, it is front page news in the book world. When …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Sterling House Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Wysards and magick and daimons? With a combination like that, plausibility usually goes up in smoke. No fear. Kephart has taken care of that problem with extremely vibrant storytelling. Her characters …
