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Category: Book Review

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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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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Book Review! Katabasis – R.F. Kuang

Posted on September 22, 2025January 17, 2026 by April

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

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Book Review! The Song of the First Blade -T.C. Edge

Posted on September 16, 2025January 17, 2026 by April

With the world on the verge of chaos and countless lives at stake, a new First Blade must be selected, but obstacles stand in the way. Alliances are broken. Enemies are born. Only the strong will survive.

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