Category: adult fantasy
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word of World is Forest is Still Relevant Today
I came across The Word for World is Forest by Usula K. Le Guin as a short book recommendation on Bookstagram, with the novel clocking in at 190 pages or so. The little premise given mentioned “Avatar, but good” which gave me a laugh, and followed up with noting the themes of colonialism and conflict…
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Season of Storms – Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher Standalone Novel
I’ve been trying not to anticipate what this novel could be, stilling my assumptions and pulling myself back from hoping for similarities to his short story works. Thankfully, I can say that Andrzej Sapkowski’s Season of Storms, the standalone Witcher novel, is funny, intriguing, and full of detail. Not only does it ring true to…
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Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Lady of the Lake Ends the Series Like This?
I didn’t know if I would be keeping this title as I drafted it before I read Andrzej Sapkowski’s fifth and final Witcher novel, The Lady of the Lake, but after finishing the novel I think it is pretty spot on. With all that has been happening, all the characters we met along the way,…
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Atmospheric Dark Fantasy in Rachel Gillig’s The Knight and The Moth
After the hype of One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns, I knew I needed to keep my eye out for more Rachel Gillig works. Fortunately, time has come for another astounding duology from her and The Knight and The Moth is as atmospheric, dark, and intriguing as promised. It is currently taking bookish social…
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The Tower of The Swallow – The Chilling Penultimate Tale in Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher Series
Things are slowly looking up with Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher series as The Tower of The Swallow provides some compelling and varied storytelling to progress the novels. While it isn’t a leap to say The Tower of The Swallow is my favourite in the novel series thus far, I can admit that things are developing…
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The Conflicts are Burning Hot in Penn Cole’s Heat of the Everflame
Heat of the Everflame, the third in the Kindred’s Curse saga by Penn Cole, has internal and external conflicts at a boiling point, relationships bending and breaking while others firge stronger bonds and more intimate connections, and the answers are emerging from the woodwork as the series heads to its final chapter. With the size…
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Slow Burn Romantasy Ignites in Penn Cole’s Glow of the Everflame
Glow of the Everflame, the second instalment in Penn Cole’s The Kindred’s Curse series, takes a step up from Spark of the Everflame in not only tension, conflicts, and character relationships, but in its length and story world expansion too. We have stepped into the world of the Descendent and there is a lot more…