Category: adult fantasy

• More High Fantasy Mystery in A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

  I have been itching to read A Drop of Corruption since I got it on my shelf but diligently waited until this moment of post-PhD chaos to start. What a spectacular, immersive, and thoroughly entertaining fantasy mystery this is! Now I definitely know I will be snooping around Robert Jackson Bennett’s works to get more…

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  May 14, 2025

  adult fantasy

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• My R.F. Kuang The Poppy War Trilogy Review

  This trilogy review has been a long time coming, considering I read these books years ago and then finally did my first reread a little under a month ago. Now, after letting it settle in, I can write to my heart’s content about how awesome, emotive, and gripping this trilogy is. The Poppy War Trilogy…

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  May 9, 2025

  adult fantasy, Discussion Posts

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• Sharp Dark Academia Critique in M.L. Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven

  Dark academia is hitting hard with this brilliant read, M.L. Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven. Fans of R.F. Kuang’s Babel will love this intense, intriguing, insightful fantasy dark academia novel and all the elements of critique and social commentary it brings with it. Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic…

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  April 28, 2025

  adult fantasy, dark academia, science fiction

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• The Energy Picks Up in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Time of Contempt

  The actions and grit of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series has returned in Time of Contempt, a happy sight given the lacklustre beginning in Blood of Elves. However, things aren’t all sunshine and rainbow’s in this addition the series. In fact, Time of Contempt has left me with a bitter taste in my mouth, reconsidering if…

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  April 26, 2025

  adult fantasy

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• R.F. Kuang’s The Burning God Ripped My Heart Out

  This militaristic political fantasy has run laps over my heart, giving it such pleasure with the rich description and detail of the story world, characters, and action, while also pummelling it to pieces because of said description, characters, and action. The Burning God is the third tier and the cherry on the top of the…

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  April 25, 2025

  adult fantasy

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• Gorgeous Light Academia in India Holton’s The Geographer’s Map to Romance

  Attention all light academia enthusiasts, historical romance connoisseurs, and readers of all things whimsical, wacky, and wonderful – India Holton has released another book! The Geographer’s Map to Romance, the second in the Love’s Academic trilogy, is officially out and about. Set in the same beautifully chaotic world as The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love,…

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  April 23, 2025

  adult fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance, YA Fantasy

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• The Beginning of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher Novels Falls Flat

  At last, I have begun the full-length novels in the Witcher series, starting with The Blood of Elves. I admit, I am a little disappointed with the shift in energy and grit this novel has taken from the short stories The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. While the short stories held a lot of…

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  April 19, 2025

  adult fantasy

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• The Book of the Unnamed Midwife: Meg Elison’s Intense Sci-Fi Masterpiece

  Winner of the 2014 Philip K Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife is an incredible science fiction read that is confronting, chilling, and wonderfully constructed. If you are one for adult dystopian, end-of-the-world science fiction that leans a little dark and heavy, then this is the book…

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  April 14, 2025

  adult fantasy, science fiction

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• More Fantasy Short Stories in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Sword of Destiny

  Another day, another Witcher novel to immerse myself in. Sword of Destiny is another short story collection within Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher world set at the eve of the main overarching story plot, Blood of Elves. I cannot say much more on that matter as I have not read Blood of Elves, but with how Sword…

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  April 12, 2025

  adult fantasy

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• Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup is Unique, Intriguing, and Wholly Immersive

  If you tell me a book is set in a high-fantasy world, has deep political layers and rich ye grim details, and is a crime fiction where the characters resemble Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, I’m going to ask you to hand it over. Now. Please. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is that…

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  April 10, 2025

  adult fantasy, Crime Fiction, science fiction

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