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 …

With this Retrieval Artist novel, Rusch reintroduces alien culture in a way that she hasn’t in the previous two novels, Consequences and Extremes. The Disty are difficult to communicate with, with complex and arcane rituals around death, and renowned for the ritual vengeance killings that are allowed under Alliance law. …

Palace is set in an area of the universe that has been cut off from the rest of civilisation for several thousand years. On one planet is Palace, a city on a jungle world of fungus and uninhabited except for that one city. The city is divided into sects where …

This book begins strongly, with a mysterious and dramatic scene that is actually set several hundred years before the rest of the story. The characters are long-lived though, and Tersa, Daemon Sadi the Sadist, and his half brother Lucivar are all still alive to see the events predicted in the …

Like Extremes, this Retrieval Artist novel does not involve alien criminal justice. Miles Flint has been hired by the Lahiri’s to find their daughter, Carolyn. She has been pardoned by the government of Etae and can now come home safely. At the same time representatives from Etae have arrived in …

The Dying Earth is the first book in this series, combined into Tales of the Dying Earth consists of six stories set on an earth far in the future, close to the time when the sun will go out. Humans now live in a semi-feudal society where magic is common …

Written when Tanith Lee was in her twenties but not published until 1994, Eva Fairdeath includes an introduction by the author, which is a fascinating insight into how she views writing, and her own earlier work.

Eva Fairdeath is a post-apocalypse novel, in which most human settlements have reverted to a …

Stalking Tender Prey is the first novel in Storm Constantine’s Grigori Trilogy. It is a dark and erotic book, based on the idea that the Nephilim, hybrid offspring between angels and humans, are still living amongst us today. They call themselves Grigori, and they are tall, thin, serpent-like people who …