Wintersteel blew me away. I laughed more than I've laughed in a while. I grinned until my face hurt. I held my breath for entirely too long. Cradle is always fun, but Wintersteel pushes everything up to eleven. It feels like every chapter has a reveal with half the series backing it, making it even … Continue reading Wintersteel (Cradle #8) by Will Wight

The Completionist Chronicles is a series entirely constructed of trash aspects and I can't stop reading it. Nothing in this system is serious, everything is silly and pun-filled. The logical leaps in progression range from scientific to completely absurd and reality breaking, and often combines the two. I open Inflame up and know I'm not … Continue reading Inflame (The Completionist Chronicles #6) by Dakota Krout — A Review

I'm going to include reviews that I wrote for all three books in the trilogy below. Very slight spoilers may commence in the later reviews. Be warned. Flesh Eater I'm not much of a consumer of 'furry' media, or books with dark themes in general. In that way, maybe Flesh Eater wasn't for me, but … Continue reading Houndstooth by Travis Riddle — A Review

The Prairie Martian was, in short, a lot better than I thought it would be. When I picked up the book, the cover didn't inspire me, and the first chapter didn't catch me immediately. The prose seemed overly windy and drawn out. But when the moody narration of the book set into its groove, time … Continue reading The Prairie Martian by Jonathan Eaton — A Review

Blacklight Born, like the two books before it, stands strong and unique in a sea of derivative books. I've never read better unarmed martial combat in any book, and the world and characters shaped around that combat are a joy. While each book in The Combat Codes is individually excellent, I kinda wish they fit … Continue reading Blacklight Born (The Combat Codes) by Alexander Darwin — A Review

Dyrwolf is a YA Fantasy story about growing up, about identity, rights, wrongs, false assumptions, love, and a little bit of a political edge. It pulls all of these elements together into a story that, magic aside, feels real. The hero isn't always right. War isn't always right or wrong. The good guys don't always … Continue reading Dyrwolf by Kat Kinney — A Review

Eleventh Cycle combines the strange and enigmatic lore of Dark Souls with the difficult lives of mortal men, and then manages to make the mortals seem the more enigmatic part. The five point-of-view characters act; sometimes emotionally, sometimes inconsistently, sometimes with flagrant foolishness, and yet never unbelievably. This is the core of the story. I … Continue reading Eleventh Cycle by Kian N. Ardalan — A Review

Beyond the Edge of the Map is one of those books that are hard to rate. It doesn't have that tied-together and cohesive feeling that many novels have. This isn't a book that should be measured by its cutting emotional narrative, but it isn't supposed to be. The book tells you what it is right … Continue reading Beyond the Edge of the Map by Robert McCarroll — A Review

The Wolf and the She-Bear is brutal. I can't count the number of times that my eyebrows jumped into my hairline, and I stopped to utter "holy crap" before resuming my read. And I'm not just talking blood and guts. Brutal twists, brutal betrayals, brutal choices. And yes, brutal killings. Nearly every chapter of this … Continue reading The Wolf and the She-Bear by Morgan Stang — A Review

The Obsidian Path trilogy… where do I begin? I originally went in search of a book like 'Dark Souls,' then was directed to Black Stone Heart. That book was not at all what I was looking for, but might have been a great deal better. I got sucked in. On release, I bought and read … Continue reading The Obsidian Path by Michael R. Fletcher — A Review