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    Review: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

    16/01/2023 / 0 Comments

    Godkiller is a wonderful debut by Hannah Kaner.  The narrative is split into four narrators: Kissen, the eponymous Godkiller; Elogost retired Knight of King Arren; Inara, orphaned noble who has been cloistered so far in her life and is bonded with Skediceth a small god of white lies. Kissen and Ianara are thrown together when Inara’s world collapses.   Oh how did I love this novel.  This world is dark and frightening.  Gods are real and they can grow to be exceedingly powerful depending on how much belief they receive. Some years prior to the novel the humans rebelled against the gods that had become too powerful, or too wild…

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    Review: The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai

    12/01/2023 / 0 Comments

    This is a helluva novel to wake up to the new year with.  The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai is an absolutely gripping fantasy novel set in an alternate Egypt with a feminist agenda front and centre. Nehal and Giorgina are in different social classes but both feel the oppressive weight of a society where a woman does not have the vote, where she is the possession of her father and can be sold into marriage.  Add in the magic for this world where elements can be controlled by weavers. Water, earth, air and fire can all be controlled by adepts with talented weaver specialising further.  Prior to the…

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    Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

    09/01/2023 / 0 Comments

    I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect with this.  I was won over by Heather Fawcett’s promise of Faeries (spelt the way I like too).  Emily Wilde is a scholar.  An expert in the Fae and her life’s work has been the compiling of her Encyclopedia.  The novel takes the form of her journal with footnotes included. This, the first in what I hope will become a series details Emily’s expedition to study the folk of Ljosland.  She is single-minded when it comes to her research, hyperfocusing on her studies. Her rival at Cambridge is the effortlessly successful Wendell Bambleby. Where Emily is methodical and diligent with her eyes on…

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