Best Fantasy of 2025
Including The Devils
Place of birth: UK
Based in a fog-shrouded cottage in the Cotswolds, Emma Thorne is a historian by training and a dreamer by nature. She treats historical fantasy as a way to reclaim the voices lost to time. Her reviews are academic yet whimsical, often focusing on how well an author weaves supernatural elements into real-world chronologies.
Buehlman has accomplished something truly rare: a novel that feels less like modern fiction and more like a fever dream experienced by a medieval monk. We follow Thomas, a disgraced knight, and a mysterious girl across a landscape where the "Great Mortality" is merely the opening salvo in a literal war between Heaven and Hell. The chro...
9.5/10
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