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The End of This Era – a spoiler free review of Avengers: Endgame
Quick review: This is the closing chapter of a decade of heroes and stories but it didn’t close the future. It was not the best Marvel movie made for a number of reasons.…
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Shazam Movie Review
Quick review: This was better than anything before Wonder Woman, but falls short of being in the same caliber as Wonder Woman or Aquaman. This was probably a little more intense than many…
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DC Bombshells: United Vol. 1 Review
Author Marguerite Bennett (DC BOMBSHELLS, BATWOMAN) unites the women of DC BOMBSHELLS in an alternate history tale with Wonder Woman on the front lines of battle. The Bombshells are back in an all-new…
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The Mongrel Mage (The Saga of Recluce) by L.E. Modesitt Jr. : Review
The Saga of Recluce chronicles the history of this world with world-building detail and an ingenious and disciplined magic system. L. E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to his longest and bestselling fantasy series with…
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The Arched Doorway: Year in Review 2014
It’s been an exciting year for us here at the Arched Doorway. We had two new members join our team — SJardine and MelissaKat. We owe at least half of this year’s posts…
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Black Out by Tim Curran : Review
In the midst of a beautiful summer, in a perfectly American suburban middle-class neighborhood, a faraway evil is lurking, waiting to strike the unsuspecting residents. First come the flashing lights, then the heavy…
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Magic City: Recent Spells edited by Paula Guran : Review
Bright lights, big city… magic spells, witchcraft, wizardry, fairies, devilry, and more. Urban living, at least in fantasy fiction, is full of both magical wonder and dark enchantment. Street kids may have supernatural…
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A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish : Review
Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. Marshalling the thieves’ guilds under his control, he declares war against the Trifect, an allegiance of wealthy and powerful nobles. Aaron Felhorn has been…
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The Treasury of the Fantastic edited by David Sandner and Jacob Weisman : Review
The fantastic, the supernatural, the poetic, and the macabre entwine in this incomparable culmination of storytelling. Imaginative stories of wit and intelligence weave through vivid landscapes that are alternately wondrous and terrifying.…
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The Polaris Whisperer by Kenneth Gregory : Review
It is a dark time. For decades Hakon the Black, the most feared Norse Lord of the ninth century, has conducted bloody and gruesome raids throughout Europe, and laid his claim upon the…
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Prince Thief by David Tallerman : Review
(This is the 3rd book in a series. My review for book two, Crown Thief can be found here.) Altapasaeda, capital of the Castoval, is about to be besieged by its own king –…
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Review: What the Faeries Left Behind, by Amber Michelle Cook
After coming home from a monotonous office job to the apartment where she lives alone, thirty-something Abigail Watson is having a tough day in a hard week in a rotten month, and don’t…
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The Boleyn King by Laura Anderson : Review
Just seventeen years old, Henry IX, known as William, is a king bound by the restraints of the regency yet anxious to prove himself. With the French threatening battle and the Catholics sowing…
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Review: Castle Waiting, by Linda Medley
Castle Waiting is a fairy tale graphic novel that’s not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil, but about being a hero in your…
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Review: Heroes of the Valley, by Jonathan Stroud
Halli Sveinsson has grown up in the House of Svein, hearing the legends of the heroes as all his forefathers did. But in this now-peaceful society, Halli has always been a misfit. Stumpy…
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Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
The path to the throne is broken – only the broken may walk it. *** To reach the throne requires that a man journey. Even a path paved with good intentions can lead…
