This review does not contain spoilers! Please keep them out of the comments as well. Title: Arm of the Sphinx Author: Josiah Bancroft Stars: ★★★★★ I am of the belief that I could merely post my favorite quotes, and they would be reason to demonstrate why I rate Bancroft's work so highly. I could, but I won't.... Continue Reading →
Review: Immortal Descent
This review does not contain spoilers! Please keep them out of the comments as well. Title: Immortal Descent Author: Carolyn M Walker Stars: ★★ Inverting the Dracula female victim-trope, Immortal Descent suffers not from a lack of ideas but clumsy dialogue. Same length sentences create monotony. Lectures and foreboding vague phrases may have been intended to augment tension; instead, they... Continue Reading →
Review: The Soulkeepers
This review contains a spoiler! Readers beware. Title: The Soulkeepers Author: G. P. Ching Stars: ★★★ An interesting premise filled with small town Americana (not in a positive way) and a hodgepodge of mythology (or theology depending on your view). That being said, Ching managed to keep me reading. Her characters were generally intriguing if not likable,... Continue Reading →
High Summons
Aesthetic Boards - the glorious mashing of images to create a thematic storyboard. Tumblr is full of them. Instagram too - and I might just have tumbled down the rabbit hole a bit late. Either way, I'm hooked. However, as I created a board for my debut, High Summons, I realized how far my main character, Jon... Continue Reading →
Review: SENLIN ASCENDS
The review does not contain spoilers (though it does contain an out-of-context quote). Title: Senlin Ascends Author: Josiah Bancroft Rating: ★★★★★ I could absolutely gush about this book. At first, the use of adjectives seemed a bit too free-flowing, but the perfection of Bancroft's similes and metaphors won me over. Even though it is a bit early... Continue Reading →
Eli Celata 