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...
Latest reviews
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Books and Bone
Victoria Corva
The others believe in blood and bone. Ree believes in books.She manages the libraries and draws maps for the denizens of her hometown, a secret society of necromance...
Incendiary
Zoraida Cordova
When the royal family of Selvina sets out to destroy magic through a grand and terrible inquisition, magic warrior-thief Renata - trained in the art of stealing memories-se...
Knight of Stars
Tom Lloyd
Lynx and the rest of the Cards are heading south. There's money in their pockets, beer in their hands and a simple job ahead - sun, sea and not getting shot at much. Th...
From Cold Ashes Risen
Rob J Hayes
The Corpse Queen Comes.Eskara has lost everything. The War Eternal has cost her everything she loves, and the Iron Legion has taken the rest. Y...
Of Honey and Wildfires
Sarah Chorn
From the moment the first settler dug a well and struck a lode of shine, the world changed. Now, everything revolves around that magical oil.What began as a simple s...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Becky Chambers
At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive i...
Black Stone Heart
Michael R Fletcher
A broken man, Khraen awakens alone and lost. His stone heart has been shattered, littered across the world. With each piece, he regains some small shard of the man he once ...
Bonds of Brass
Emily Skrutskie
Ettian’s life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. He’s spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an U...
The House of Sundering Flames
Aliette de Bodard
The great magical Houses of Paris - headed by Fallen angels and magicians - were, however temporarily, at peace with each other. Until House Harrier was levelled by a power...
Darkdawn
Jay Kristoff
The epic conclusion of the internationally bestselling Nevernight Chronicle from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff.The greate...
Stone Soul
eden Hudson
Yesterday, Ji Yu Raijin died to save his betrothed. Today, he awakens in a strange land of deadly demon beasts, weaker than he’s ever been. Without his overpowered li...
Salvation Lost
Peter F Hamilton
Fight together - or die alone... In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane’s...
The Obsidian Psalm
Clayton Snyder
Betrayed by those he trusted. Resurrected by a man he should loathe. A head full of memories he didn’t make. Rook is forced into a bargain that might kill him if he r...
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 ...
Latest interviews
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Jen Williams
2020-04-15
1. I have to ask. Can you tell us what the title Dog Rose Dirt means, or do we have to wait and see?Well the thing about titles, is that when a book is announced very early – as Dog Rose Dirt ...
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...
