In C.C.S. Jones’s Magic Rift, Lusa is believed to be the last mage in Aetherealm after the Mage Order has been destroyed. Izier has begun rebuilding, but strange weather starts spreading across the realm as crops fail beyond the capital. The imperial council sends Lusa...

In Chloe Sargeant’s The Timeless, eighteen-year-old Christa Malone is a first-year university student whose estranged father, archaeologist Dr. Richard Gale Malone, has returned after ten years away. Determined to learn why he disappeared, Christa follows him to a hidden mountain dig with her friends, where...

I have just finished reading Imprisoned World by William L Frame. I found this book to be a fascinating piece of science fiction. Imprisoned World introduces us to the basin of Amora, where the people live trapped behind mountains, completely unaware that there is a...

Annette Mackey’s The Forgotten Queen Trilogy: Book One, The Rise of a King is set in fifth-century Britain, where Avalon grows up beside a secluded lake near Glastonbury with her mother, Lady Vivian. Avalon is the daughter of Merlin, a wizard attached to King Uther’s...

Escape From Titan is an action-packed fantasy novel by Wil Chan. Elysia Dayne blames herself for her complacency in the dragon-slaying job outside Redwood Village. After her spymaster friend, Kailin Song, invites her to Titan City, Elysia reluctantly accepts. Elysia had previously killed a nobleman...

Some books entertain you, and others, like A. B. Watts’s Become As God, rewire you. Welcome to Modrinia, the Delivered Kingdom, where magic is outlawed and dreaded to the extent that the citizens only refer to it as “the m-word.” Sleep is a thing that...

In G. S. Scott’s Fire and Ruin, the God of Chaos has controlled the world for five hundred years according to the Game of the Gods, which allows one of them to rule for that number of years, after which the other gods are allowed...

It has been more than a decade since the war began on Solara, a world of sprawling lands and isles. It was sparked after the Nightshade Empire, the government that rules most of Solara, launched a persecution campaign against Arcanists, people who can draw on...

Arshes is going after the Monster, her father Daelen StormTiger, to accomplish her ultimate mission: to stop the Monster from annihilating Tempestria. But that’s not the only threat Tempestria is facing. Time is running out as the decaying pocket dimension in which it is trapped...

F.A. Calder's Tidestep: The Water Anchor opens the Saga of Arthios with the eighteen-year-old blacksmith’s apprentice, Zaphiel, aching for adventure beyond the sleepy village of Farin. He gets his wish when his master sends him to deliver a sealed scroll to the Water Master in...