- Mar 4
- 4 min
Book Review: Lost in the Long March, by Michael X. Wang
A condensed version of this review appeared in the February 2023 issue of The Historical Novels Review. Michael X. Wang’s Lost in the...
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Book Reviews: Some of My Favorite Historical Fantasy Reads
It’s mash-up time! My first review roundup featured some of my favorite fantasy books; the second highlighted historical fiction. For...
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Book Reviews: Some of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads
We interrupt your regularly scheduled browsing to bring you this important announcement: History is rad. Actually, it’s just me with a...
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
Book Reviews: Some of My Favorite Fantasy Reads
Like most of the stories I write, my Red Wraith series is a blend of genres. And since the boxed set (Colors and Ghosts) is releasing in...
- Oct 16, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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...
