SJardine
Posts by SJardine.
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Sweep Of Stars by Maurice Broaddus : Review
“The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try.” – West African Proverb The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a…
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Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham : Review
Kithamar is a center of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long, bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories unfold. This is Alys’s. When her brother is murdered, a…
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Servant Mage by Kate Elliot : Review
Fellian is a Lamplighter, able to provide illumination through magic. A group of rebel Monarchists free her from indentured servitude and take her on a journey to rescue trapped compatriots from an underground…
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The Starless Crown by James Rollins : An Audiobook Review
An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A…
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Risen by Benedict Jacka : Review and Interview
Mage Alex Verus has gone from a Camden shopkeeper to one of the most powerful mages in Britain. Now his last and most dangerous battle lies before him. Alex’s girlfriend, the life…
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Child of Light by Terry Brooks : A Review
An all-new fantasy series about a human girl struggling to find her place in a magical world she’s never known. At nineteen, Auris Afton Grieg has led an . . . unusual life.…
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Bamboo Kingdom: Creatures Of The Flood by Erin Hunter : A Review
One kingdom. Three worlds. An all-new series packed with high-stakes adventures from bestselling Warriors author Erin Hunter, perfect for fans of Wings of Fire and Endling. The pandas of the Bamboo Kingdom have…
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The Mother Code by Carole Stivers — Review
What it means to be human-and a mother-is put to the test in Carole Stivers’ debut novel set in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. The year is 2049.…
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Beyond (The Founding of Valdemar Book 1) by Mercedes Lackey : Review
The long-awaited founding of Valdemar comes to life in this new series from a New York Times bestselling author and beloved fantasist. Within the Eastern Empire, Duke Kordas Valdemar rules a tiny, bucolic…
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Fortress of Magi by Mirah Bolender : Review
Mirah Bolender follows The Monstrous Citadel with Fortress of Magi—the pulse-pounding conclusion to her debut fantasy trilogy in which a bomb squad defuses the magic weapons of a long forgotten war The Hive Mind has done…
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The Two-Faced Queen by Nick Martell : Review
The Hollows is gripped in unrest and on the brink of civil war as an insurgency of anarchists rise, and brother and sister vie for the throne in the second novel in the…
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Dead Space by Kali Wallace : Review
An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life.…
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Fairhaven Rising by L.E. Modesitt Jr. : Review
Sixteen years have passed since the mage Beltur helped to found the town of Fairhaven, and Taelya, Beltur’s adopted niece, is now a white mage undercaptain in the Road Guards of Fairhaven. Fairhaven’s…
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The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey : Review
Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be. And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s husband.…
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The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson : Review
The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea. On the never-ending, miles-high expanse of prairie…
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We Hear Voices by Evie Green : Review
An eerie horror debut about a little boy who recovers from a mysterious pandemic and inherits an imaginary friend who makes him do violent things… Kids have imaginary friends. Rachel knows this. So…
