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May 14, 2015

Book Review: The Vorrh

May 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

At the heart of this astounding work of fantasy broods a jungle called the Vorrh, a forest so unending that it warps time and steals souls.

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May 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Science Fiction
fantasy, fiction, May 2015
March 15, 2015

Book Review: The Wide World's End

March 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the concluding volume of James Enge's gripping fantasy trilogy, a band of unlikely heroes is caught between warring godlike beings in a world quickly tearing itself apart

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March 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fantasy, fiction, March 2015
February 26, 2015

Book Review: Shadow

February 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the second volume of Will Elliott's fantastic "Pendulum" trilogy, a large and engaging cast of characters fight to survive in a world drastically out of balance

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February 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, February 2015
February 16, 2015

Book Review: A Darker Shade of Magic

February 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In V. E. Schwab's new fantasy novel, a young man can travel between a string of alternate-reality Londons

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February 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Science Fiction
fantasy, February 2015, fiction
January 19, 2015

Book Review: The Whispering Swarm

January 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock returns after a long absence to the genre he helped to create

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January 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fantasy, fiction, January 2015, Michael Moorcock
November 02, 2014

Book Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

November 02, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The bestselling author of the "Kingkiller Chronicles" turns in a short novella devoted to one of his fan-favorite characters

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November 02, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, November 2014
July 20, 2014

Book Review: Tower Lord

July 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Anthony Ryan follows up his much-praised debut "Blood Song" with a much more ambitious sequel

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July 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, July 2014
March 22, 2014

Book Review: The Pilgrims

March 22, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

When two London friends find a doorway leading to a magical realm, they think they're in luck - but Will Elliott's raucous new novel has some nasty surprises in store for them

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March 22, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, March 2014
March 19, 2014

Book Review: The Barrow

March 19, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Ancient magic talismans are almost always more trouble than they're worth, but that doesn't deter the rag-tag group of anti-heroes in Mark Smylie's energetically readable debut novel

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March 19, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, March 2014
January 31, 2014

Book Review: The Emperor's Blades

January 31, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The engrossing first volume of a very promising new fantasy series

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January 31, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, January 2014, science fiction
January 28, 2014

Book Review: What Makes This Book So Great

January 28, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

One of the brightest stars in the sci-fi/fantasy night sky writes about the interesting stuff she's been re-reading

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January 28, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, January 2014, jo walton, science fiction
January 15, 2014

Book Review: He Drank, and Saw the Spider

January 15, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Sixteen years ago, young mercenary Eddie LaCrosse saved a baby girl from an angry bear and found her a good home far from trouble - or so he thought. Sixteen years later, that baby girl is all grown up and at the heart of all the trouble in the world in Alex Bledsoe's latest nifty sword-and-sorcery novel

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January 15, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, January 2014
December 25, 2013

Book Review: Two Serpents Rise

December 25, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In a fantasy version of LA where sorcerous captains of industry wage war against the gods, a conflicted young 'risk manager' works to prevent a dark plot from poisoning millions of people

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December 25, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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December 2013, fantasy, science fiction
December 20, 2013

Book Review: The Lost Prince

December 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A group of extra-dimensional retainers must protect their exiled prince - but he doesn't know who he is, and they don't either.

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December 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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December 2013, fantasy
April 23, 2013

Book Review: Wolfhound Century

April 23, 2013/ Justin Hickey

A killer stalks a dark-fantasy alternate version of the Soviet Union in Peter Higgins' fantastic debut novel

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April 23, 2013/ Justin Hickey/
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April 2013, fantasy, fiction, Justin Hickey, science fiction
January 11, 2013

Book Review: A Memory of Light

January 11, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The legendary fantasy series at long last comes to its conclusion

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January 11, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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brandon sanderson, fantasy, January 2013, robert jordan
January 08, 2013

Book Review: Ice Forged

January 08, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The first volume in a new fantasy series opens on a world where the everyday background magic on which everybody depends is beginning to flicker out ...

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January 08, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, January 2013, science fiction
July 11, 2012

Book Review: Wake of the Bloody Angel

July 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The latest adventure featuring freelance 'sword jockey' Eddie LaCrosse is - avast! - a rollicking pirate-yarn!

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July 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, fiction, July 2012
June 04, 2012

Guest Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman

June 04, 2012/ John C. Anderson

Can the Peter Jackson/Lord of the Rings approach work with the Brothers Grimm? Mr. Anderson tells the tale!

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June 04, 2012/ John C. Anderson/
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fantasy, June 2012, movie review
May 26, 2012

Classics Reissued: The Mabinogion Tetralogy

May 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A towering landmark of epic fantasy literature is re-issued in a pretty paperback!

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May 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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fantasy, May 2012
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