# Genre: Epic Fantasy
# Hardcover: 384 pages
# Publisher: Roc Hardcover; 1 edition
# Publication Date: February 2, 2010
# ISBN-10: 0451463137
# ISBN-13: 978-0451463135
# Author Website: Stephen Deas
The Adamantine Palace is the debut novel by British author Stephen Deas. First in a planned trilogy, the narrative whisks the reader away to a far and distant land where dragons [...]
Posts under ‘Fantasy’
Book Review: The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas
Book Review: The Dragon Book edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
# Genre: Anthology/Short Fiction, Fantasy
# Hardcover: 448 pages
# Publisher: Ace Hardcover
# Publication Date: November 3, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0441017649
# ISBN-13: 978-0441017645
# Editor Websites: Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois
With Wizards master anthologists Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois gave readers a wonderful and unique take on an old standby of fantasy. Now these two set their sights on dragons, [...]
Book Review: Flight of the Renshai by Mickey Zucker Reichert
# Genre: Epic/High Fantasy
# Hardcover: 464 pages
# Publisher: DAW
# Publication Date: September 1, 2009
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0756402735
# ISBN-13: 978-0756402730
# Author Website: Mickey Zucker Reichert
Like The Wheel of Time, The Renshai Chronicles were some of the books I grew up with. Mickey Zucker Reichert’s tales based in Norse mythology were stirring and exciting. So it [...]
Book Review: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
# Genre: Literary Fantasy, Adventure, Comic Fantasy
# Hardcover: 400 pages
# Publisher: Viking Adult
# Publication Date: December 29, 2009
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0670019631
# ISBN-13: 978-0670019632
# Author Website: Jasper Fforde
Color adds beauty to the world around us. Without green grass and blue sky all would be drab and grey. But what if our entire society were [...]
Book Review: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
I’m pulling the old bait and switch again. This time to let you know that my review of Finch by Jeff VanderMeer which I call “a Salvadore Dali painting in prose” is up at SF Signal.
Book Review: Wolfbreed by S. A. Swann
# Genre: Historical Fantasy, Myth, Paranormal Fantasy
# Paperback: 400 pages
# Publisher: Spectra
# Publication Date: August 25, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0553807382
# ISBN-13: 978-0553807387
# Author Website: S. A. Swann
Don’t let the cover mislead you, Wolfbreed by S. A. Swann is not your typical paranormal fantasy. Set in the Transylvanian wilderness during the Middle Ages, the story is [...]
Book Review: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
# Genre: Comic Fantasy, Fantasy, Satire
# Hardcover: 400 pages
# Publisher: Harper
# Publication Date: October 6, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0061161705
# ISBN-13: 978-0061161704
# Author Website: Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett continues his pattern of taking something from the real world, twisting it to fit in the Discworld universe, and adding bits of wry British humor in Unseen Academicals.
This time, [...]
Book Review: The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
# Genre: Epic/High Fantasy
# Hardcover: 784 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books; Signed edition
# Publication Date: October 27, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0765302306
# ISBN-13: 978-0765302304
# Author Blog: Robert Jordan
# Author Website: Brandon Sanderson
In reviewing a novel in a series as popular as the Wheel of Time, a reviewer faces a dilemma: Does the reviewer toe the party line and [...]
Book Review: The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts
# Genre: Epic/High Fantasy
# Paperback: 841 pages
# Publisher: HarperCollins UK
# Publication Date: May 1, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0586210695
# ISBN-13: 978-0586210697
# Author Website: Janny Wurts
# Book Website
The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts is one of the classics of the 1990’s wave of epic fantasy. The story is primarily of two half-brothers, the princes of two [...]
Book Review: The Mermaid’s Madness by Jim C. Hines
# Genre: Humor, Epic Fantasy, Adventure
# Paperback: 352 pages
# Publisher: DAW
# Publication Date: October 6, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0756405831
# ISBN-13: 978-0756405830
# Author Website: Jim C. Hines
Mermaids aren’t always nice. In fact, most of the original stories depict them as evil half-women, half-fish beings that lured men to their deaths in the watery abyss. As always, [...]
