Fantasy Book Critic

CNN is saying the Iranian attack happened after Trump “lost patience with negotiations”.

I don’t believe it. The negotiations were cover. This was always the plan. The scale of the military buildup showed that.

Interview With Stephen Graham Jones, Author Of ‘Night Of The Mannequins’ - PopHorror Nightfire, the sci-fi/horror division of Tor Publishing Group, has rereleased Stephen Graham Jones'

Read this interview and now I’m wondering who should be cast in Night of the Mannequins movie.
@sgj.bsky.social

Review: Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent

Today we're reviewing Daughter of No Worlds, a definite top tier romantic fantasy!

Thanks to Bramble Romance for the finished copy!

Bulletproof Fiction to Get Men Reading What makes a book “for men”?

Another good piece here from my editor (and not just because my novel is mentioned :P). Writers like Shirley Jackson and Kurt Vonnegut were my own portal into literature. dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/bulletproo...

Dance of shadows by Gourav Mohanty

Many congratulations to @gouravmohanty.bsky.social on the paperback release for DANCE OF SHADOWS

As a desi fantasy reader, there’s no one like Gourav combining GRRM’s worldbuilding, Abercrombie’s prose & Indian mythology. If you haven’t jumped on this amazing series yet, why not?

Review: Green & Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons

Green & Deadly Things is a great ride for those who favor plot over character, zipping from one action scene to the next.

Our review!

Thanks to @torbooks.bsky.social for the ARC!

A Forest, Darkly by A G Slatter — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank Titan Books for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Titan Books Published – Out Now Price – £9.99 paperback £7.99 ebook ...

New Review - time to meet my new favourite witch Mehrab - run and get hold of this excellent story - A Forest, Darkly by @angelaslatter.bsky.social out now may thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

Review: Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis

So far the QUEENS OF VILLAINY romance stories have been a delight: powerful women refusing to be "put in their place" and finding men who whole-heartedly support them on that journey.

Our review of the latest from Stephanie Burgis!

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

Every year, the Poisoned Pen Bookstore features a special promotional giveaway for those who preorder a Rollins’ title. TRUST NO ONE comes with something very unique: an additional cover wrap that inverts the design’s colors (see mock-up below, though the final version is still pending).

A little update to this. A source emailed me to say they'd used an industry tool to look up Coral Hart's sales and they totaled only 37 copies for the books under that pen name.

So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.

Vinay celebrates what an excellent year of reading he had in 2025 with a run through of his Top Reads.

Find out more and what his Book of the Year was here: tinyurl.com/ywth2tvk

All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced.

Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.

Not downplaying Eleni’s feelings. My point was George has a right to feel affronted about his books and how they get adapted. Everyone is free to criticize GRRM for the books content. I’m focussing on why the showrunner forgot to include such an important line & instead had a mundane shitting scene

He did but it’s just strange that he forgot that. Maybe after many bad adaptations, my patience is just on the lower side, so I’ll just wait to see how he adapts the remaining 2 novellas before giving him full some praise

His books so his choice 🙂 I’m more weirded out by the showrunners missing out on such an important piece of dialogue and then wanting to include such a mundane scene.

As a follow up, this was George’s reaction on seeing the scene for the first time (h/t George’s THR Interview by @jameshibberd.bsky.social).

This was certainly an odd turn by Ira Parker & doesn’t bode well for the future stories when he doesn’t have the text to adapt.

We are thrilled to announce that the next series featured on our fantasy subscription will be…

The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne 🛡️⚔️

From Ira Parker’s Reddit AMA. Here’s his answer about why he left out the most important line from the Hedge Knight novella.

This is kinda weird that this scene/line would be cut but the shitting scene from episode 1 (which wasn’t in the novella) was included

a woman in a blue shirt is holding her hands to her chest and says oh ALT: a woman in a blue shirt is holding her hands to her chest and says oh

Like feels incomplete. Love even doesn’t quite cover it….. I’m excited you to experience the world of Rellas and Maggie 🤩

COVER REVEAL: Rising Gale (Song of the Damned #2) by Z. B. Steele Speculative fiction book reviews.

Cover Reveal: Rising Gale (Song of the Damned #2) by @zbsteele.bsky.social

😂😂😂

That was an incredible #Halftimeshow , kudos to #BadBunny & the entire crew #SuperBowl

The First Binding Check out this great listen on Audible.com. “Epic fantasy at its finest—an homage to storytelling and legend, richly told and endlessly engaging.”—Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter Do...

Hey everyone, if you have the spoons/space, I'd really appreciate a signal boost/share of this:

www.audible.com/pd/The-First...

The First Binding is on a month long 6.99 sale (America/US audible only) right now for all of Feb.

And it's my bday this month, so :) <3

SPFBO XI - The First Update Speculative fiction book reviews.

FBC chooses its first #SPFBO semifinalist as Lukasz reviews his #SPFBO11 lot.

#SPFBOReviews

🔥🔥🔥 the finale of TEAR DOWN HEAVEN is upon us

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios The Devil Wears Prada 2 | Official Trailer

So excited for this

5 Novels with Perfectly Unsympathetic Protagonists I’ll admit it: I don’t really believe in the distinction between sympathetic and unsympathetic characters. All fictional people (and perhaps all real people too, or almost all) are both unsympathet…

Sophie Hannah recommends Morag Joss, Freida McFadden, and more. crimereads.com/novels-unsym...

Huzzah new series starter by Craig Schaefer 🔥🔥🔥

A Bookbub graphic: Now Only $0.99, available for a limited time: featuring the painted cover of Smuggler's Fortune by Angela Boord, A Standalone Eterean Empire Story: A giant painted cabinet sits amid the wreckage of a cart backlit by flames with indistinct running figures, one in veil and robes, another with a metal arm

Well, um, I have a Bookbub deal going on this week, if you'd like to take a break with a short prequel novel to Fortune's Fool, in which Kyrra teams up with her mercenary friends to cause maximum chaos and take a little revenge in the process...

💙🪐📚 #BookSky

www.bookbub.com/books/smuggl...