We’re launching a new feature: a monthly roundup chronicling the best books our stable of bloggers has read over the previous month. Old or new, it doesn’t matter—these are the ones that will stick with us.
The “fantasy” label encompasses a lot of subgenres. I have a weak spot for many of them (hello, gaslight! Hello, flintlock!), but one in particular turns me to jelly: the kind of that is escapist in the best sense, offering a rollicking good time, a darn fine yarn that spins out effortlessly, the sort you’d imagine […]
As fans wait in agony for the next volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, we can’t but celebrate one of our favorite recent trends in SF/F: the all-in-a-year trilogy. All the books in a series, released in quick succession, almost no waiting. It’s a binge reader’s dream—especially when the books in question are […]