Plot ★★★★☆
Characters ★★★★☆
World Building ★★★★★
Atmosphere ★★★★★
Writing Style ★★★★☆
Category: Dark Fantasy
The Gutter Prayer – Gareth Hanrahan (The Black Iron Legacy #1)
Alchemy ✓ Female Main Character ✓ Lovecraftian Setting ✓ Mischievous Thieves ✓ Non-Human Protagonist ✓ Steampunk ✓ Unique Setting ✓ Urban ✓
No Heart for a Thief – James Lloyd Dulin (Malitu #1)
“I know how much it hurts to remember, and how remembering is the only thing that comes close to comfort.” What is the Book about? We are the stories we tell ourselves…even the lies. The Thief, a great spirit, and her descendants have abused their ability to steal magic for centuries. When Kaylo starts to…
Daughter of Redwinter – Ed McDonald (The Redwinter Chronicles #1)
“But how can something that has no form begin in one place and end somewhere else? If a crow begins flying south, but what arrives is a swan, then the crow never undertook a journey.” What is the Book about? Those who see the dead soon join them. From the author of the critically-acclaimed Blackwing…
The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski
The Witcher 0.5 “People,” Geralt turned his head, “like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that…
The Reading Stray 