Tag: fantasy

The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Luke Arnold’s debut novel The Last Smile in Sunder City – the first installment in the Fetch Phillips Archives – is the type of noir fairy-tale so immersive and vivid, you can almost smell the scent of whiskey (or in this case Milkwood, a sugary drink favoured by our protagonist) smothered on the page. Its […]

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The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S Villoso

.Reading time 9 minutes.

*[Thank you to the lovely team at Orbit for gifting me this book, in exchange for an honest review] There is something incredibly refreshing about K.S Villoso’s debut epic fantasy novel The Wolf of Oren-Yaro, the first installment in the brilliantly titled Chronicles of the Bitch Queen. In a market arguably saturated with European faux-medieval […]

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“Uprooted” by Naomi Novik

.Reading time 6 minutes.

There have been few books which have pulled me into the story with such giddying force that it meant I stayed up until 1am, speedily reading with tired eyes, to try and finish it. And yet – somehow – Naomi Novik’s Uprooted manages to do just that. (If you’re a fan of her Temeraire series, […]

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