Oct 31 2026
The Mystery Knight was originally published in 2010, some seven years after the first appearance of The Sworn Sword. I think I would have liked the third Dunk and Egg novella a bit more if the gap between them in my reading had been, if not quite the full seven years, more than the week …
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Oct 27 2026
Y’know, despite my lifelong love of fairy tales, I don’t recall ever reading the original story this novella is based on. Having taken a look at the classic upon finishing this book, however, I can certainly agree that it lends itself satisfyingly to this modern-day reinterpretation that leans hard in to the more horrific elements …
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Oct 25 2026
Selena gets out of a bad relationship by gathering up her dog, a black lab named Copper, spending almost the last of her money, and taking a train two and a half days from the unspecified city where she had lived out into the desert Southwest to a settlement called Quartz Creek, to find her …
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Oct 24 2026
I’m glad that T. Kingfisher, a.k.a. Ursula Vernon, is having a publishing moment because I missed The Raven and the Reindeer entirely when it first came out in 2016. It’s a re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” that is irreverent, tension-filled, funny, scary, and more than a little weird. That’s fitting, though, because …
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Oct 18 2026
Two years after the events of The Hedge Knight, Dunk and Egg find themselves at the ass end of nowhere, sworn to serve a knight who’s not far from a hedge himself, while much of the region struggles with a drought. The novella opens with the two of them returning from an errand to buy …
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Oct 17 2026
I’m not really a blurb person, but as short descriptions of A House With Good Bones go — “(a) funny, (b) scary, and (c) charming. You will gulp this book down like sweet tea on a hot day.” (Charlaine Harris) and a “special blend of horror and snarky mundanity, wherein the not-so-dearly departed demand half-frozen …
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Oct 10 2026
I found it a little hard to believe that The Hedge Knight is closing in on 30 years since its first publication in Legends, an anthology edited by Robert Silverberg. (I haven’t read it, but the table of contents looks great.) I think the conversation around the television series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” …
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Oct 05 2026
This would have been way more successful for me were it the overly wordy storyboard for an anime — most likely a repetitively depressing one like Berserk — than an actual book. And look, I get it. Depression sucks. It’s a legit mental illness that you can’t just will yourself out of. But that doesn’t …
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Oct 04 2026
I feel kinda bad for the people charged with writing the back cover copy for Villain, Natalie Zina Walschots’ sequel to Hench. That novel showed a world with superheroes and supervillains, told from the perspective of a disposable henchperson. But Anna Tomedlov was her own person, center of her own world, and did not feel …
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Sep 28 2026
Every Jordan Ifueko book is a treat that also somehow manages to be incredibly healthy for your heart and your brain. Her latest fantasy series debut is aimed at Middle Grade readers, and is set in a future/alternate earth that is still eminently recognizable. Valentine Adesanya has grown up in the city of GlossAngeles with …
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