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Bite-size Books: Sunset Mantle

Book cover: Sunset Mantle - Alter Reiss (spectacular moody scene of a warrior looking down on a battlefield)Cete was a clan general until he killed his berserk lord, earning acclaim and exile at one stroke. Now he’s drawn to cast in his lot with a new settlement aspiring to independence – even though he’s certain it’s doomed…

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February 13, 2020 Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

The True Queen: more magical mayhem

Book cover: The True Queen - Zen Cho (decorated text, cyan on black, with a snake pendant around the title)When Muna loses her beloved sister in Fairyland, she turns to the Sorceress Royal for help. But the Fairy Queen is threatening to invade England if a stolen necklace isn’t returned. A missing sister is the least of Prunella’s worries…

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January 18, 2020 2020, Reviews

Bitesize Books: The Haunting of Tram Car 015

Book cover: The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P Djeli ClarkAgent Hamed has heard of haunted public buildings. Haunted homes. Even a haunted mausoleum. But a haunted tram car is unusual – and this case will test his ingenuity (and his budget) to its limits…

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January 16, 2020 Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

Bite-size Books: The Ascent to Godhood

Book cover: The Ascent to Godhood - J Y Yang (a person robed and throned, stylized)The Protector is dead. The Machinists are rejoicing – except one. Lady Han is a legend, a fierce leader who took the resistance and made it a force to reckon with. But Hekate has been the centre of her life since she was a girl…

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September 27, 2019 Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

Trail of Lightning read-along: week four

Trail of Lightning - a Wyrd and Wonder read-along
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From the blood-stained fighting pit under the Shalimar to the memory-haunted Black Mesa, it’s time for Maggie to face her past and fight for her future. But first she must decide what sort of future she wants…

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May 26, 2019 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder 2019

Trail of Lightning read-along: week three

Trail of Lightning - a Wyrd and Wonder read-along
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Old enmities flare into new conflict this week – and Maggie and Kai are forced to rely on uncertain friends for sanctuary. But it’s not just the Law Dogs who are out for blood. The tsé naayée are on the hunt again…

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May 19, 2019 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder 2019

Bite-size Books: The Black God’s Drums

Creeper wants to fly the skies in an air ship, but first she  needs to earn a place on a crew. When she overhears conspirators plotting to unleash the Black God’s Drums, she might have found the leverage she needs… if she can save her city from the natural disaster about to overtake it.

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March 8, 2019 2019, Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

Bite-size Books: The Descent of Monsters

Book cover: The Descent of Monsters - JY Yang (a person in red robes and braids in an epic post standing on a dragon)After a slaughter at a remote research institute, Tensor Chuwan Sariman is assigned to find out what really happened. But her investigation is stymied at every turn – by the Tensorate itself. What were they really studying? What do the authorities have to hide?

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December 14, 2018 Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

Mini Reviews: Water into Wine, Rosewater, The Prey of Gods

This year saw lots of travelling and some intense deadlines that got in the way of me writing reviews in a timely fashion for everything I read. Still, it’s never too late for a quick look back at the ones that got away!

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November 16, 2018 2019, 2020, Reviews

Bite-size Books: In the Vanishers’ Palace

Book cover: In the Vanishers Palace - Aliette de Bodard (a woman in peach clothing running down stairs - or are they coils - under a dragons watchful eye)The Vanishers left the world in tatters. The waters are poisoned, disease is rampant, lives are balanced against value and need. The elders give Yên to a dragon as payment for a healing; but what value can a failed scholar have to an immortal spirit? What need can an unwanted peasant girl fulfil?

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October 16, 2018 Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

City of Brass: the djinni fantasy I’ve been waiting for

Book cover: The City of Brass - S A Chakraborty (minarets silhouetted against a carved door)Nahri is a hustler with a sixth sense for sickness, trying to save up enough money from her scams to study medicine. When she accidentally summons a daeva during an improvised ritual, her dreams go up in smoke. Now she must flee her home to survive the ifrit who hunt her bloodline down. Will she find sanctuary in the City of Brass?

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May 26, 2018 2019, Reviews, Wyrd and Wonder 2018

Revenant Gun: the final battle for the Hexarchate’s soul

Book cover: Revenant Gun - Yoon Ha Lee (space ship flying away from explosion and asteroids)The Hexarchate is no more. Only two Hexarchs survive: slippery Shuos Mikodez, backing Cheris’s nascent democracy; and immortal Nirai Kujen, determined to resurrect the high calendar to maintain his grip on life. And even Protector-General Kel Inesser and her fleet don’t back him. Kujen isn’t worried: he has another incarnation of Shuos Jedao at his command…

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April 28, 2018 2019, Reviews

Bite-size Books: Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth

Book cover: Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth - Cassandra Khaw text title and silhouette of city skyline in redWho needs enemies with friends like Rupert Wong’s? Following his unfortunate involvement in dragon murder and celestial war, Rupert’s is being seconded to London ‘for his own safety’. But his new Greek employers are at war too – and nobody is betting on Rupert surviving it.

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April 6, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

Bite-sized Books: Binti – The Night Masquerade

Book cover: Binti The Night Masquerade - Nnedi Okorafor (a black woman with blue tentacle hair looks at an object in her hands)As Binti struggles to adjust to the zinariya, she is overwhelmed by visions of her family in mortal danger. With no sign of Okwu, she and Mwinyi rush back. Can the master harmonizer who sits at the nexus of so many cultures bring peace, or is her legacy to be only conflict?

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March 23, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

Bite-sized Books: The Red Threads of Fortune

Book cover: The Red Threads of Fortune - J Y YangIn the wake of tragedy, Mokoya the former seeress has abandoned her family and joined a mercenary group who hunt naga. Stalked by grief, she struggles to care about Akeha’s concerns or the slow-burning rebellion. But even in the outer marches of the Protectorate, there are causes worth dying for.

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March 16, 2018 2018, Bite-size Books, Novellas, Reviews

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