Debut novels can be tricky for new writers. Whether it is the only novel the writer will ever create or whether the writer wishes to continue churning out story after story, that starting novel is always challenging and whether the readers will love it, merely like it, or simply dismiss it is a mystery. It… Continue reading Book Review: The Golem and the Jinni
Category: Fantasy
Book Review: The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street
Four years after G. P. Taylor’s Shadowmancer was published in 2002, a sequel was released titled The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street in 2006. Do not be afraid: Taylor managed to release himself from the clutches of the religious cliché trap set for religious writers on their journey to share the Word through fiction. However, even with the absent clichés,… Continue reading Book Review: The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street
Book Review: Heaven’s Night
Religious fantasy is not a popular genre, but it is not an unpopular one either. There have been many different religious fantasy series that have made their marks and have left impressions in the minds of readers everywhere, some of the more popular ones including The Left Behind series by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, This Present Darkness by Frank… Continue reading Book Review: Heaven’s Night
Book Review: The Night Circus
Does magic truly exist in the world? Can the impossible be possible? Writer Erin Morgenstern brought the impossible to light and magic to life for readers everywhere with her debut novel, The Night Circus. Originally published in 2011, Morgenstern’s novel was treated as what is known as a “blockbuster hit” and continues to entrance the minds of readers everywhere even… Continue reading Book Review: The Night Circus
Book Review: Writing Fantasy Heroes: Powerful Advice from the Pros
The epic tales of legendary heroes have been around for thousands of years. The Epic of Gilgamesh, the first hero story and perhaps the oldest story on Earth, was believed to be written around 2500 BC or earlier. The story of Beowulf was told around 1000 AD. The Greeks wrote about heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and Achilles in their ancient mythology… Continue reading Book Review: Writing Fantasy Heroes: Powerful Advice from the Pros
Book Review: Shadowmancer
It is easy for someone who has an unshakable faith in his or her religion to write about his or her beliefs in the form of fiction for the world to read. However, the difficulty lies in keeping readers of religious fiction interested. A writer of religious fiction, namely Christian fiction, can easily fall into… Continue reading Book Review: Shadowmancer
Book Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The simplicity and imagination contained within childhood seems to grow ever more distant as the stress and reality of adulthood consumes the life of everyday man. But within the hectic reality adults call life, one must find a way to go back, to revisit what seems so long ago. Author Neil Gaiman has found a way to… Continue reading Book Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane