SPIDERLIGHT by Adrian Tchaikovsky (BOOK REVIEW) | Fantasy-Hive
TO Munro reviews Adrian Tchaikovsky's fantasy quest SPIDERLIGHT, publishing in the UK this September by Tor!| Fantasy-Hive
Welcome to THE MONSTER BOTHERER! We are thrilled to welcome back Emma Penman, who exclusively reviews monster romance, and has returned for another week of Monster Bothering. We decided that as all her reviews have a specific aim, we’ll house them all in one handy feature-cage! Whilst not necessarily bothering many monsters herself, Emma will be letting us know which monster romance books are worth bothering with… Content warning: These books are usually explicit unless stated otherwise J...| Fantasy-Hive
“You must always look closer. The twists and turns of a life lived are written on men and women like script on parchment. In scars, in bearing, in the lines on the brow, the look in the eyes.” They say that Sargent Holt Hawley is cursed. They say that the old order of True Vigilants, along with their magical abilities, are gone. Yet when several children, including the son of General Tarasq of Sylvervain, disappear, Archduke Leoric of Scarfell tasks Hawley to take his men and find a True ...| Fantasy-Hive
“Protect you against Rot, Daughter. Shudder with the thought of it, that worst thing. Rot like the gone-bad-on-the-inside of fruit, like biting into an apple without checking for holes and my mouth filling up with a rancid brown mush. Worse than a foul mouthful of Rot that comes from outside the fence. If that kind of Rot got into me or Myma then we would be the gone-bad apples. Us Rotters. Everything inside us eaten away. I wouldn’t be Mud any more. I wouldn’t be any name at all. I wou...| Fantasy-Hive
All I know is that when I think about these things, I wind up afraid to pray for anything too specific, as if I’d be joggling the elbow of someone who is trying to run the universe… ‘Just… please send me wherever I can do the most good. That’s all.’ Hemlock & Silver is my sixth T. Kingfisher read of the year and hands down the most impressive so far (I have another two on my immediate TBR, it’s most definitely the Year of the Kingfisher). The first T. Kingfisher story I read was...| Fantasy-Hive
“Under the trees and the earth, under the roots of the towering spruce and the mighty fir, under strata of rich black loam and rocky clay, under the carcasses of ancient sequoias and redwoods, and finally under the worms and the slugs and the crawling things that ate them all, the Lord of the Forest sleeps. His veins pulse and throb in the dark earth. He does not like the men and the way they trample through his forest. He does not like when they pull his mushrooms from the earth and stupid...| Fantasy-Hive
TO Munro reviews Adrian Tchaikovsky's fantasy quest SPIDERLIGHT, publishing in the UK this September by Tor!| Fantasy-Hive
Today, we're thrilled to be taking part in the cover reveal for Emily Paxman's upcoming standalone post-apocalyptic romance, ALL WE HAVE LEFT! Cover artist: Natasha MacKenzie| Fantasy-Hive
Beth reviews S. T. Gibson's upcoming dark folkloric fantasy romance SAVAGE BLOOMS: "a decadent feast of deceit and desire in a gorgeously realised and atmospheric setting"| Fantasy-Hive
Today, Cat reviews the first in a brand new #romantasy series from bestselling author S. A. Maclean - VOIDWALKER! Out now from Gollancz: "excellent, sassy and genuine characters... a truly entertaining book"| Fantasy-Hive
We can't have a Monster Romance section without a tentacle romance and our Monster Botherer has delivered with Ava Hall's THE KING IN RED: "forced proximity, only one bed, us against the world vibes"| Fantasy-Hive
