City of Stairs (Divine Cities Series #1)

As if from the head of Zeus, Wesley Chu sprung forth fully formed onto the genre scene in 2013 with the release of his debut novel The Lives of Tao, and it’s hard to believe it’s only been two years. He’s a convention mainstay, a non-stop tweeter, and he’s just released his third book, The Rebirths […]

City of Stairs was, without question, my favorite book of 2014. Robert Jackson Bennett’s masterful first stab at epic fantasy plotted an astounding new world, creating a complex, not-quite-modern society where the ways of the old gods collided with an unsympathetic conquering nation. The formerly subservient invading Saypuri islanders threw off the yolk of godly oppression, throttling the very […]

Sigurd je Harkvaldsson has been in hiding for 13 years, waiting on word from his good friend Shara Komayd, once Prime Minister of Saypur, now doing humanitarian work on the Continent. In a rage over the death of his daughter, Sigurd murdered members of the Saypuri military, and has been a wanted criminal ever since. Shara was supposed […]

Sometimes they walk among us. Sometimes they empower us. They try to trick us, or don’t care for us, or don’t even notice we’re there. Whatever their agendas, the gods of fantasy literature rarely make characters’ lives any easier. Sometimes, they’re even willing to descend from on high to get their divine hands dirty. Inspired by the […]