Happy New Year from Colorado! In celebration, it's time for another SPFBO review! Lago was only a child when the shapeshifter entrusted the wolf-like mask to his care—an artifact so powerful that it could come to shape the entire world of Noss. Now that he is coming of age, Lago is becoming ever more fearful... Continue Reading →
Review: The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August
I picked up this one based on the description and the absolutely adorable cover, and thankfully I wasn't disappointed! Thanks to the author as well as Hanover Square Press for the review copy! A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes. When the Home worlds finally achieved... Continue Reading →
Review: Dawn Razed by Josh Erikson
I've quite enjoyed the Ethereal Earth series and its audiobooks, and so when I was offered a copy of this most recent audiobook, I gladly accepted. I hadn't had a chance to give it a listen until recently, but I'm certainly glad that I got some time. Thanks very much to the author (and narrator)... Continue Reading →
Review: Of the Wild by Elizabeth Wambheim
Hello! I aten't dead! I have moved across states, sold a house, got a new job, and have been going through a hell of a depressive episode on top of all of it. So, sorry for my absence, but reading has been... difficult of late. However, I had to come and tell you about this... Continue Reading →
Review: Short Changed: Stories from Ethereal Earth
Moving right along with my audiobook listening this year, this is a group of short stories from the Ethereal Earth series that the author was nice enough to offer me a copy of when he had finished the audiobook. So thanks very much to the author for the audiobook copy! How does a con man... Continue Reading →
Review: Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore
This was an audiobook that I picked up as it was the SPFBO Community Discord's Book Club title for January. Of course, I didn't manage to actually finish it in January... because of course I didn't. It's been one of those years, so far. ^^; THE CHOSEN ONE IS DEAD. Speak the truth. That is... Continue Reading →
Review: The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian
Time to review my first book of the new year *fanfare* which is a book I've been looking forward to reading ever since I read Hither, Page. Thanks so much to the author for the review copy! When James learns that an uncle he hasn’t heard from in ages has left him something in his... Continue Reading →
Review: Ajiwiak by D. P. Woolliscroft
I've quite enjoyed my time with this series up until this point, and so when a review copy of the third book in the series was offered to me, I couldn't pass it up! So thanks to the author for the review copy! ALL IT TAKES, IS A SINGLE SPARK Llewdon, ageless elf and Emperor... Continue Reading →
Review: Tales of Ioth by D.P. Woolliscroft
Having really enjoyed this series, I gladly accepted a review copy of this volume of short stories that that take place around the main story. So thanks to the author for the review copy! Ioth was gone. Kingshold had fallen. But we could not give up. I am Mareth, once Lord Protector of Kingshold, and... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Executioner’s Right by D.K. Holmberg
Almost there! I can see the bottom of my pile! Executioners don’t solve crimes, they punish those who commit them. Or so Finn thought before apprenticed to one. Poverty-stricken Finn Jagger would give anything to heal his ailing mother. With his father imprisoned, Finn has joined a thieving crew to earn the money he needs... Continue Reading →