Best Fantasy of 2025
Including The Devils
Place of birth: France
A discerning reviewer who prefers high fantasy and fantastical historical fiction. Her reviews are sophisticated and witty, often analysing the author's philosophical intent and use of trope subversion. She requires high quality in both intellectual depth and narrative execution.
Piranesi is not merely a book; it is an architectural study in narrative control, a work that demands the discerning attention of any reader weary of the genre's usual sprawling scope. Susanna Clarke, with her signature intellectual rigour, has delivered a masterpiece that quietly subverts every expectation of the traditional high fantasy world....
9.8/10
Including The Devils
Including Hell Bent
Including Babel, Fairy Tale
Including She Who Became the Sun, The God is Not Willing, A Marvellous Light and The Shadow of the Gods
Including The Unspoken Name, Age of Empyre, The Once and Future Witches and The Trouble with Peace
Including A Brightness Long Ago, The Raven Tower, The 10,000 Doors of January and Beneath the Twisted Trees
Including Circe, The Ember Blade, The Fall of Gondolin and The Poppy War
Including The Fall of Arthur, The Stone Sky, Godsgrave and Tarnished City
Including All the Birds in the Sky, Nevernight, Wrath and Fellside
Including The Hollow Boy, Ancillary Mercy, Half the World and Ruin
Including The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Fool's Assassin, Words of Radiance and The Oversight
Including Emperor of Thorns, The Shining Girls, The Republic of Thieves and The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Including Some Kind of Fairy Tale, King of Thorns, The Wind Through the Keyhole and The Killing Moon