The Library at Mount Char: A Novel

In my life, I’ve acted foolishly more times than I’d care to admit. One of them was last year, when I neglected to pick up The Library at Mount Char immediately upon its release in June. Instead, it gathered dust on my to-read list for another six months, at which point I finally cracked the cover, and […]

The apocalypse is an event usually rendered in lurid shades of deep despair. It’s only natural—the extermination of all life on earth is bound to be a black affair, even when treated with an, er, lighthearted touch. But just because the apocalypse is going to be all doom and destruction doesn’t necessarily mean our fiction has to take on the […]

Fantasy can be a difficult genre for beginners to penetrate, and in a sense, that’s fitting. The foundations of the genre rely on invention and reinvention, pushing boundaries, and infusing the known with the unknown. Where do you even begin when the worlds are unfamiliar (and sprawling), and you can’t fight your way through the […]

We’re all imperfect mortals, but if fantasy has taught us anything, it’s that the gods are no great shakes either. The genre is loaded with tales of gods who are anything but infallable—whether than means losing all their followers or managing to embroil themselves in a millennia-long war with other immortals. These eight books deal with deities […]