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Landbringer | Sigils & Sushi | Of Wind And Lightning | To Dance With Dragons | I wanted to read more of a voice-driven dystopian steampunk. 3 other openings didn’t quite grab me.(From Covers with Cassidy) 172) Karen H Lucia, Landbringer A gang of miscreant youth raid a passenger airship in a world above the mist covering the surface of […]
*AI Narrators | Moon Bitten | Evil’s Unlikely Assassin | I wanted to read more of two urban fantasies with women MCs, one featuring werewolves in a *the monsters are real* revelation opening, the other starring an evil-hunting vampire with celestial handlers and sizzlingly, comic-book-colorful narration.(From Covers with Cassidy) Book 169: AI Narration I am saddened by the use […]
Haelend’s Ballad| A Rose Among Thorns | Fires of Caprica | Two openings with young woman MCs made me want to read more to discover just where the story would go. One was a fun, fae-ish contemporary fantasy, the other a gothic, plague-ridden Venice-like city medical drama (from Covers with Cassidy) 166) Ian V Conrey, Haelend’s Ballad Two navel […]
Father of Constructs | Oak King Holly King | The Burning Fire Rises | The Afterlife Experiment | A medieval fae-world knight transported to the 19th century mortal realm MM romance caught my attention, and an opening with a girl locked in an asylum with her living shadow, Dread, absolutely blew me away!(from Covers with […]
The Mesozoic | Cthoma’s Fate | Rejoice! An author returned my inquiry with a copy of her opening, and I wanted to read more of it. Another terrific opening caught my eye. This concludes the Captured In Words group!(from Captured In Words) 160. Demetria Meltinos Dreams, The Mesozoic: Creatures of the Malignant Thicket A dinosaur […]
Amiant Soul | Kindred of the Sea | Darkness Below | The Mesozoic |I wanted to see more of two books from todays batch: a lovecraft university story and an opening that focused on two forlorn soldiers forced to march on an elven wood, reminding me more than a little of The Lord of the […]
Obsidian Murders| Guarding Gus | Forged By Pain | Sailing to Redoubt | Four or five openings today, but only one of which I felt compelled to read more of and recommend to your attention: a fun UF of a young woman who can see faeries but just wants to be a journalist and afford […]
My favorite reads of 2025
By Blood, By Salt | Gabriel’s Journey | A Song Of Octavan | I wanted to read more form the SPFBOX champion and a quaint fieldmouse story. A third opening from a romantic fantasy didn’t quite do enough to hook me. (from Captured In Words) 148. JL Odom, By Blood, By Salt For 14 years […]
Dawn of the Black Sun | My Name Is Not Alice | Copper Cold Steel | I wanted to see more of two more fantasy openings: an action anime fantasy, and a contemporary YA Alice in Wonderland riff. A 3rd European Fantasy was too locked into its MC’s head and didn’t keep my interest. (from […]
