- Oct 16
- 3 min
Book Review: Dawn, by Octavia Butler
Enthralling, dawning horror. That’s probably the best way to describe my evolving response while reading Octavia Butler’s Dawn—an...
- Sep 2
- 4 min
Book Review: The Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gavriel Kay
Most alternate histories suggest what might have been if a key event had turned out differently. Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Lions of Al-Rassan...
- Aug 5
- 3 min
Book Review: The Blunder, by Mutt-Lon
A condensed version of this review appeared in the August 2022 issue of The Historical Novels Review. In her translator’s notes to...
- Jun 11
- 3 min
Book Review: Flint and Mirror, by John Crowley
A condensed version of this review appeared in the May 2022 issue of The Historical Novels Review. John Crowley’s Flint and Mirror brims...
- May 6
- 3 min
Book Review: Death's End, by Cixin Liu
Like Book 1 of Cixin Liu’s towering The Three-Body Problem series, Book 3 begins with a siege. But while the first book opened in 1967...
- Mar 19
- 3 min
Book Review: Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
What if you combined the sci-fantasy setting of Dune, the Warder-Aes Sedai dynamic of The Wheel of Time, the battle-royale structure of...
- Jan 8
- 2 min
Book Review: The Thousand Names, by Django Wexler
What would a young Napoleon have done to get his hands on magical weapons? That’s essentially the question Django Wexler explores in his...
- Dec 15, 2021
- 3 min
Book Review: Ghost Station, by Dan Wells
Most Dan Wells novels feature some speculative weirdness: serial killers who hunt monsters, engineered organic beings who hunt humans,...
- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
Book Review: Protector, by Conn Iggulden
A condensed version of this review appeared in the November 2021 issue of The Historical Novels Review. Conn Iggulden has already...
- Oct 12, 2021
- 3 min
Book Review: Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark
Hate made flesh. That’s what Klansmen are under their hoods in P. Djèlí Clark’s 2020 novella Ring Shout—not just men committing monstrous...
