Review: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain #1) by Margaret Killjoy (2017)
Rating: ★★★★ Genre: Urban Fantasy, Horror, Eldritch, Paranormal Categories: F/F, Queer, Ghosts/Spirits, Demons Content Warnings: (Highlight to read) References to a character’s previous suicide (off-screen). Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Itinerant traveler Danielle Cain arrives at the “ghost town” of Freedom, Iowa, a haven for squatters and anarchists living off the […]
Review: To Summon Nightmares by J.K. Pendragon (2014)
“With the last sound, his mouth became unstopped like a bottle, and it was as if all sound hissed from the room. The candles blew out, the darkness expanded to envelop all. And then the darkness receded. The candles flickered back to light, and the sound came back into the room. In the middle of […]
Review: The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (2016)
“Strange he hadn’t had a premonition of what this place would become to him all those months ago. But maybe not. So much of magic—of power, in general—required belief as a prerequisite.” – The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater Rating: ★★★★ Genre: Urban fantasy, YA Categories: M/M, M/F, YA, multiple narrators, wizards/magicians, mythology, ghosts Content Warnings […]
Review: Timekeeper by Tara Sim (2016)
“Danny had most certainly fallen down the rabbit hole. He didn’t know if he ever wanted to return.” – Timekeeper, Tara Sim Rating: ★★★½ Genre: Fantasy, YA Categories: M/M, alternate history Content Warnings (highlight to read): N/A Description: Danny is a clock mechanic, tasked with keeping the world’s clocktowers running in an alternate Victorian world. These clocktowers literally keep […]
Review: Junk Mage by Elliot Cooper (2016)
“It’s a gift, not a trade.” Or it wasn’t a sly trade anymore, anyway. I couldn’t handle his haunted look, as if I’d just given him everything and he wasn’t allowed to keep it. – Junk Mage, Elliot Cooper Rating: ★★★½ Genre: Science fiction, fantasy, romance Categories: M/M, cyborgs, wizards, technomancy, personhood arc Content Warnings: N/A […]