Fantasy Reviews
Valley of Shields by Duncan Lay
Date published: 1st April 2013 Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers AU Format: Paperback, 560 pages Series: Empire of Bones, Book 2 ISBN 13: 9780732294199 ISBN 10: 0732294193 Categories: Fantasy Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided by publisher for review Challenge: Australian Writer’s Reading Challenge Cast out from his homeland, Sendatsu has used his sword-fighting talents to survive in the foreign land of the […]
Shift by Hugh Howey
Date published: 25th April 2012 Publisher: Random House (Century) Format: Paperback, 569 pages Series: Wool, Books 6 – 8 (Omnibus) ISBN 13: 9781780891217 ISBN 10: 1780891210 Categories: Fantasy – Post Apocalyptic Dystopian Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The […]
Awakening by William Horwood
Date published: 5th August 2011 Publisher: MacMillan (Pan Macmillan Au) Format: Paperback, 408 pages Series: Hyddenworld, Book 2 ISBN 13: 9780230754775 ISBN 10: 0230754775 Categories: Fantasy Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher Born of the Hyddenworld but living in our reality – Jack knows that he has a foot in both worlds but doesn’t wholly belong to either. Even his […]
Wool by Hugh Howey
Date published: 3rd December 2012 Publisher: Random House (Century) Format: Paperback, 537 pages Series: Wool, Books 1 – 5 (Omnibus) ISBN 13: 9781780891248 ISBN 10: 1780891245 Categories: Fantasy – Post Apocalyptic Dystopian Goodreads / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant […]
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
Date published: 1st February 2013 Publisher: Gollancz (Hachette AU) Format: Paperback, 288 pages Series: The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, Book 1 ISBN 13: 9780575132924 ISBN 10: 0575132922 Categories: Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, land of djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, Khalifs and killers, is at boiling point. […]
Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill
Date published: 26th February 2013 Publisher: Gollancz (from Hachette AU) Format: Paperback, 405 pages ISBN 13: 9780575130104 ISBN10: 0575130105 Categories: Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher It begins with a love story. A love that is almost too sweet, too perfect. From that love comes a child. Life is wonderful. Until something unspeakably vile […]
Malice by John Gwynne
Date published: 6th December 2012 Publisher: Tor (from Pan Macmillan AU) Format: Hardcover, 672 pages Series: The Faithful and the Fallen, Book 1 ISBN 13: 9780230758452 ISBN10: 0230758452 Categories: Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the publisher A black sun is rising … Young Corban watches enviously as boys become warriors under King Brenin’s rule, learning […]
Keir by Pippa Jay
Date published: 1st August 2012 Publisher: Lyrical Press Format: Paperback, 266 pages ISBN 13: 9781616503819 ISBN 10: 1616503815 Categories: Fantasy / Science Fiction Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: provided for review by the author Outcast. Cursed. Dying. Is Keir beyond redemption? For Keirlan de Corizi – the legendary ‘Blue Demon’ of Adalucien – death seems the only escape from a world where […]
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Date published: 15th March 2011 Publisher: NightShade Books Format: Paperback, 278 pages Series: Books of the Raksura, Book 1 ISBN 13: 9781597802161 ISBN 10: 1597802166 Categories: Fantasy Goodreads / Bookworld (ebook) / Kobo Source: purchased Moon has spent his life hiding what he is — a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories […]
Tanequil by Terry Brooks
Date published: 3rd May 2005 Publisher: Pocket Books Format: Paperback, 464 pages Series: High Druid of Shannara, Book 2 ISBN 13: 9780743414982 ISBN 10: 0743414985 Categories: Fantasy Goodreads / The Book Depository / Booktopia / Bookworld Source: purchased War threatens the Four Lands, and Shannara’s only hope lies in Penderrin Ohmsford, but it’s a dreadfully slim hope. To save his world, Pen must restore his […]