Fantasy Book Review
At Fantasy Book Review we are dedicated to reading and reviewing the very best fantasy books for both children and adults (both young and old).
Best fantasy books of 2020
Our favourite fantasy books of 2020 so far. And don't forget our favourite fantasy books of 2019!
Books of the Month
A selection of books - old and new alike - that were a joy to read.
Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn....
Shorefall
Robert Jackson Bennett
As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine ...
Along the Razor's Edge
Rob J Hayes
No one escapes the Pit.At just fifteen Eskara Helsene fought in the greatest war mankind has ever known. Fought and lost. There is only one place her enemies wo...
The Light of All that Falls
James Islington
After a savage battle, the Boundary is whole again - but it may be too late. Banes now stalk the lands of Andarra, and the Venerate have gathered their armies for a final, ...
The Bard's Blade
Brian D Anderson
Mariyah enjoys a simple life in Vylari, a land magically sealed off from the outside world, where fear and hatred are all but unknown. There she's a renowned wine maker...
The Shadow King
Alec Hutson
Scarred by what transpired on the island of the sorceress Niara, Keilan and his companions journey north, bearing a weapon forged to end the unnatural existence of the Chos...
The Hanged Man
KD Edwards
The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines...
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The Lessons Never Learned
Rob J Hayes
I am the weapon. Eskara is free of the Pit, but far from safe. She is beset by the ghosts of those she has killed, and plagued by the ancient horror that p...
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterl...
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to...
Devolution
Max Brooks
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now....
Blight Marked
Josh Erikson
Gabe escaped the Ether with the ultimate prize, and he thought that meant he was done with deadly cosmic games. But the nightmares infesting his life have different plans, ...
The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air ...
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Snowman may be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Once he was Jimmy, a member of a scientific elite; now he lives in bitter isolation and lo...
Starsight
Brandon Sanderson
All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were ...
The Headlock of Destiny
Samuel Gately
Some say titans are descended from giants. Others say they are risen from men. But there's never any debate about where to find them. They will be in the center of a ro...
Stormblood
Jeremy Szal
Vakov Fukasawa used to be a Reaper: a bio-enhanced soldier fighting for the Harmony, against a brutal invading empire. He's still fighting now, on a different battlefie...
The Midnight Lie
Marie Rutkoski
Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society's pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her...
The Cold Moons
Aeron Clement
Life is ideal for the badgers in their golden valley until the day the alarm is sounded: their homeland is doomed, for man is coming. Against all odds they set out on a que...
The Seventh Sun
Lani Forbes
Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of ...
Master of Sorrows
Justin Call
You have heard the story before - of a young boy, orphaned through tragic circumstances, raised by a wise old man, who comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it ...
A Tale of Stars and Shadow
Lisa Cassidy
Dumnorix princess and born warrior, Talyn Dynan was the finest fighter of her generation. With her Callanan partner at her side, she was invincible, reckless, a death-knell...
The Chosen Ones
Veronica Roth
The mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise delivers her masterful first novel for adults Fifteen years ago, five ordinar...
Thornbound
Stephanie Burgis
Cassandra Harwood scandalized her nation when she became the first woman magician in Angland. Now, she's ready to teach a whole new generation of bright young women at ...
Pure
Julianna Baggott
We know you are here, our brothers and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolently. Pressia Belze has li...
Daughter from the Dark
Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning s...
Borderlands Act 1
Charles Gull
In the eternal battle against the Realm of Chaos, Captain Doneir’s discipline, ambition and trophy head count have brought him to the brink of legendary status....
Shorefall
Robert Jackson Bennett
As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine ...
Latest interviews
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Ben Galley
2019-06-24
What are your three all-time favorite novels?Man, only three? That’s tough, but let’s go for it. In no particular order: American Gods, The Book Thief and Lord of the Rings, the book tha...
Josh Erikson
2019-04-03
What are you currently reading Josh?I’m about ten pages in to Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Pretty much everyone I know in the industry keeps gushing about this series, so I figured it wa...
Graham Austin-King
2018-12-03
I think I've always wanted to write. When I was younger it had that unrealistic feel to it though. A bit like wanting to be a movie star or and astronaut. Authors were special people. As it turns out we're not that special. ...
James Jakins
2018-11-28
James Jakins is a self published author of both Urban and Epic Fantasy. His debut novel Jack Bloodfist: Fixer was a SPFBO 2017 top 10 finalist. He recently released his third novel Knights of the Dead God, and he has a massiv...
Richard Nell
2018-11-27
Richard Nell concerned family and friends by quitting his real job in 2014 to 'write full-time'. He is a Canadian author of fantasy, living in one of the flattest, coldest places on earth with his begrudging wife, who makes s...
