This is the first novel of the Tir Alainn trilogy, and it is amazingly rich and vibrant. It has Witches, Inquisitors, Smallfolk and Fae all twined together in a new way. The inquisitors are quite unusual. They are led by Adolfo, the Witch Hammer, who behaves exactly as one would …

The first few chapters of this story begin with rather unusual and confronting events. Fawn Bluefield is traveling to the town of Glassforge, hoping to find work and start a new life away from her overbearing family. She tries to avoid trouble by hiding from a patrol of Lakewalkers, only …

In all the previous Retrieval Artist novels Miles Flint has been haunted by the death of Emmeline, his baby daughter. Now while he is examining the files left by his mentor Paloma, he finds references to her and his ex-wife Rhonda Shindo. He researches to find out why a Retrieval …

The City is isolated. There is some land around the city, but beyond that there is nothing. Every twenty years the city performs the ceremony of the iron fish and things are changed. Years ago, whole sections of the city moved and were rearranged, new animals, new places arrived through …

This is Michelle Marquardt’s first novel, and I was fairly impressed with it. It flows well, has interesting characters and doesn’t info-dump, which would have been an easy trap to fall into in this style of novel. The setting is a space station which is in the middle of negotiations …

This was a book that didn’t feel to me as though it fit into the mold of the first three Black Jewels novels. Of course the first three had their own story arc, which is now complete, but it was different in other ways too. Set after the events of …

This is a warm and very human novel that explores ideas which are enticing, raw and sometimes uncomfortable. Ofelia is an old woman, at 70 years of age, she has spent the last forty years living in the first colony of a new planet. Working, looking after people, doing what …

I was curious about how the sequel to Palace would read given that Katharine Kerr worked with Mark Kreighbaum on Palace but not on The Eyes of God. I wondered whether it would be consistent with the style of the original, whether the characters would be the same ones I …

Scenting Hallowed Blood is the second book in the Grigori Trilogy, following on from Stalking Tender Prey. Peveral Othman has been revealed as the reincarnation of Shemyaza, the original rebel who fell from grace thousands of years earlier.

Even though the story flows on well from Stalking Tender Prey, I wasn’t …

Jaenelle Angelline rules as the Queen of Ebon Askavi. Only one thing is missing from her life now, which is her Consort, Daemon Sadi. When he finally arrives, he is still fragile from his time in the twisted kingdom, and she is still wounded from her childhood. It is touching …