• Book Review: The Tower Outside of Time by Joseph Sale

    Book Review: The Tower Outside of Time by Joseph Sale

    In his latest book, Joseph Sale brings together the worlds of Dark Hilarity and The Tunnel with the four main characters meeting up and taking on the world of Dae’eshta. Since escaping The Cretin, Tara and Nicola have moved to London and become successful fantasy novelists. I loved that they got a happy ending, and…

  • Book Review: The Tunnel by Joseph Sale

    Book Review: The Tunnel by Joseph Sale

    When she is 11, Georgina Jones discovers something about her cold, calculating father that not only destroys her relationship with him, but results in her keeping men at a distance when she grows up, unable to form a meaningful connection.  In 2019, a huge crocodile stalks the sewers of London. Some say it is Jack…

  • Book Review: Dark Hilarity by Joseph Sale

    Book Review: Dark Hilarity by Joseph Sale

    Wolfkin, lizardmen and gorilli- oh my! Sale’s latest novel is a feast for fantasy lovers.  Bonded by their love of the music of Valentine Killshot, preteens Tara and Nicola’s friendship is stretched to breaking point by a horrific shared event. Seven years later, the women confront their past, and each other, in the dreaming world…

  • Book Review: Return to the Black Gate by Joseph Sale

    Book Review: Return to the Black Gate by Joseph Sale

    A bittersweet end to the series with this tour de force from mister mindflayer, Joseph Sale.  On another world, known as Nekyia, its prince returns a changed man. Gone are his physical eyes, but with his third eye he can see the doors between all the worlds are now open and something older than the…

  • Book Review: Beyond the Black Gate by Joseph Sale

    Book Review: Beyond the Black Gate by Joseph Sale

    An engrossing dark fantasy with epic world building and lyrical prose, Beyond the Black Gate is a completely different kettle of fish to its predecessor. Craig Smiley has made it beyond the Black Gate, but it’s not the paradise he was promised. Angry at his betrayal, Smiley decides to do what any self respecting serial…

  • Book Review: Gods of the Black Gate by Joseph Sale

    Book Review: Gods of the Black Gate by Joseph Sale

    Caleb Rogers, the detective who put serial killer Craig Smiley behind bars, can’t shake the idea that the gods the killer sacrificed to might actually exist. Policemen, Caleb Rogers and Tom Marvin, thought deranged ex infantry serial killer, Craig Smiley, was locked away for good in the inescapable and inhospitable maximum security prison on Mars.…

  • Book Review: Queen of Last Hope by Joseph Sale

    Book Review: Queen of Last Hope by Joseph Sale

    In Queen of Last Hope, the characters from the stories in Four Horsemen come together in a dense, symbolism laden tale full of the author’s trademark layers, depth and monsters. The Prince has landed on the shores of Nekyia and claimed it for his own, bringing hope to the land of death by promising its…

  • Book Review: Prince of the Wasteland by Joseph Sale

    Book Review: Prince of the Wasteland by Joseph Sale

    The first appearance of the prince, but by no means his last. Sale’s debut novel is just the start of things.  The prince, and his thirteen apostles, all graced with powers by the same dark touch, have destroyed their world and now rule over a ruined New York City.  But those who are the destroyers…

  • Book Review: Crowtower by David Rae

    Book Review: Crowtower by David Rae

    Set before the events of Crowman, Crowtower is the story of Utas, the High Priest of Vatu, and the endless cycles of his life within the tower in a land of darkness when the sun only shines for one day every year. There is something about Rae’s writing that draws me in, no matter which…

  • Book Review: Hollow by Rhonda Parrish

    Book Review: Hollow by Rhonda Parrish

    A magic Polaroid camera spreads the pain of a traumatized teenage girl in this absorbing young adult fantasy from Rhonda Parrish. Morgan has just experienced the most traumatic year of her life, and she isn’t coping well. Neither is her family, who have their own portion of grief and suffering to bear. Hollowed out from…