As I slowly climb into my mid-30s I’ve begun to take stock of my life. For over ten years I’ve been reviewing fantasy books, and this year marks my tenth year reviewing with Fantasy Book Review. The first book I ever...
The audio dramatisation of Tim Lebbon’s Alien: Out of the Shadows is great fun, both eerie and atmospheric while staying mostly true to the Alien legend we know and love. Laurel Lefkow voices Ripley but at times you’ll be forgiven for thinking...
A post by Peter Newman, author of The Vagrant and The Malice Although The Vagrant is known for having a silent protagonist I’m going to talk about someone else in the series today, a character known as Tough Call. Tough Call...
Sometimes books and narrators are perfectly matched. Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and the voices of George Guidall and Frank Muller is one example, Guy Gavriel Kay’s works and Simon Vance another. And we also have Stephen Fry and Harry Potter,...
When my Mum informed me that she needed to borrow some of my Derwent colouring pencils, I was a bit surprised. Turns out, however, that adult colouring has taken the world by storm. Bookstores all over the world are now selling...
Dawn of Wonder (The Wakening: Book 1) Winner 2015 CIPA EVVY awards for Fiction/Fantasy Current finalist 2015 Writer’s Digest Self Published Book Awards for Genre Fiction #1 Bestseller in Epic, Historical and Coming of Age Fantasy When a high-ranking officer gallops...
To begin, I will discuss hamburgers. What has this to do with formulae in books? Well not a lot, I just felt like playing some hunger games. Your basic burger has a few essential elements that exist for it to be...
Over the last few months Fergus and I have read steadily through our five short-listed Self-Published Fantasy Book-Off entries and we are pleased to announce that a winner has been chosen. Before we announce the winner, here are our thoughts on the...
We are taking part in the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off, a competition where we – and many other fantasy websites – receive 25 self-published fantasy books and are given the difficult task of selecting just 1 to put forward to...
The following is a review of the audio-book edition of Stephen King’s Mr Mercedes, a cat and mouse thriller narrated by Will Patton and first released in June 2014. Author King and narrator Patton recently joined forces for Dr Sleep, the...
