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Book Review! Project Hanuman – Stewart Hotston

Posted on January 7, 2026January 17, 2026 by April

The Arcology is a pan galactic utopia whose people live entirely online. One evening everything stops completely. The Arcology is gone. With help from a ship and pilot they must find out what’s going on before the end of everyone and everything that calls the Arcology home.

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Book Review! Lady of Light and Shadows – C.L. Wilson

Posted on January 4, 2026January 17, 2026 by April

He had stepped from the sky to claim her like an enchanted prince from the pages of a fairy tale, but behind the mesmerising beauty of his violet eyes she saw the driving hunger of the beast and and an endless sorrow only she could heal.

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Book Review! Black Sun – Rebecca Roanhorse

Posted on December 20, 2025January 17, 2026 by April

A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun

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Indie fantasy books I want to read!

Posted on December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 by April

The beauty of translation is that it opens up so many stories that we otherwise didn’t have access to read. I’ve read so many that have ended up in my favourites list and so I’ve pulled together a list of translated works that I am excited to read this year!

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Book Review! A Psalm for the Wild-Built – Becky Chambers

Posted on November 12, 2025January 17, 2026 by April

Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of “what do people need?” is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot.

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Book Review! Lord of the Fading Lands – C.L. Wilson

Posted on October 29, 2025January 17, 2026 by April

Once, driven wild with grief over the murder of his beloved, the majestic Fey King Rain Tairen Soul had laid waste to the world before vanishing into the Fading Lands. Now, a thousand years later, a new threat draws him back into the world—and a new love reawakens the heart he thought long dead.

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Book Review! The Winners – Fredrik Backman

Posted on October 20, 2025January 17, 2026 by April

Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life’s big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them?

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Book Review! The Will of the Many – James Islington

Posted on October 14, 2025January 17, 2026 by April

I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilised society in allowing my strength, my drive and my focus – what they call Will – to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.

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Book Review! A Time of Dread – John Gwynne

Posted on October 1, 2025January 17, 2026 by April

A race of warrior angels, the Ben-Elim, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands, but their peace is brutally enforced.

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Book Review! A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine

Posted on September 30, 2025October 29, 2025 by April

Published: March 2019 Pages: 448 Series: Teixcalaan #1 Summary Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn’t an accident—or that Mahit might be…

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