Book Reviews / D ReviewsDark Fantasy / epic fantasy / fantasy/scifi / Japan / Series / The Tale of ShikanokoComments Off on REVIEW: Autumn Princess, Dragon Child by Lian Hearn
A self-assured warrior stumbles into a game of Go that turns fatal. An ambitious lord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother. A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne. ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews CategoryDark Fantasy / horror / LGBTQ / rock music4 Comments
I’m supposed to be better than this. I’m supposed to have a tenure-track job teaching music history to undergrads, writing papers about Bach, and proving to kids like me that you can work your way out of Harlem. I’m not supposed to be following a rock star around the country, ... more >
A Reviews / Classic Romance Reviews / Recommended ReadsDark Fantasy / m/m romance / Magic / Rape38 Comments
A son of a forest dwelling people, Yhalen knows little of the world outside the ancestral forest, until he is captured by a band of ogres on a slave-taking mission. Only grim tales of the barbaric giants had reached the forest, but Yhalen soon learns that even the darkest fireside ... more >
Letters of OpinionAlpha hero / Anne Bishop / archetypes / beta hero / Dark Fantasy / genre critique / Romance17 Comments
One of the things I enjoyed most about the essays of Michelle Sagara and Elizabeth Vail on the alpha and beta heroes in Romance was the range of comments and interpretations of both heroic types. How could the same type produce so many different, and often conflicting, ideas of what ... more >
B- ReviewsDark Fantasy / forbidden-love / Historical Fantasy / road-romance6 Comments
“When Lady Eloise of the Isle of Venn becomes betrothed to the King of Ystria, she looks forward to a life of luxury and status at the royal court. She certainly doesn’t anticipate being shipwrecked on the way to her wedding, escorted by the Kings assassin, Severin de Meynard, the ... more >
B- ReviewsDark Fantasy / m/m / Samhain-publishing / Urban-Fantasy7 Comments
If I could offer one piece of advice now, as I fall past the eighty-fourth floor of Victory Tower, with the sky above me the swirling eye of a crimson hurricane, the blade of a goddess stuck in my thigh, and a man I used to love preparing to end ... more >