Did you want to keep reading? This is the sine qua non of writing. Nothing matters if you don’t want to keep reading. So, in the case of Rebecca Warner’s Journey of Souls, did I want?
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The story gives off “hard-boiled detective” vibes: that cynical, dark, roller-coaster ride through the underbelly of a city, with sudden flashes of bright colours, like the neon signs lighting up the Vegas strip.
But this is the age of The Troubles in Ireland, a dangerous time when the IRA has taken to kidnapping people for ransom in order to fund their campaign against England, and its Loyalist supporters. And it is in this context that Fionn is kidnapped.
Stewart goes all-in on the supernatural, leaving no question about the supernatural nature of the events of the story. The reader is up to their eyeballs in a hard-core fantasy revenge story that sweeps across the centuries like a blood feud.
The Dream Journal of J.D. Solomon will challenge you. Yes, on the surface it’s a literate comedy, but there is so much more going on beneath the surface.
While first coming off as a coming-of-age story, Resonance turns from this trope early on, becoming something far more sinister, with a side of supernatural trappings.
H.E. Wilberson’s The Martian Diaries, Volume 1: The Day of the Martians is an attempt to create a sequel to the famous, and infamous, War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells.
While The Sentinels is not a fantasy novel—it reads like contemporary fiction, a young adult coming-of-age story—there is a hint of something… special going on. I’ll say no more, because potentiality is sauce for the goose.
The Parallels runs several concurrent storylines but the main focus of the book concerns an assasination and the various people tasked with solving the crime
Tales comprises 6 short stories, a glossary, and details on the main non-human species the book takes as its focus, the Manderians