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Author: Tristen Kozinski

The Mortal Blade book review

The Mortal Blade is one of those book that, while well written, didn’t impart a strong impression on me. The writing is solid, most of the main characters well constructed, and the pacing is quick but steady. Its setting is a more standard sword and sorcery fantasy, which I was ready for after a selection […]

Gunmetal Gods By Zamil Akhtar Review

‘Gunmetal Gods’ is an awesome book title, and a promise to the reader to deliver those gods. The book unreservedly succeeds in this; the gods are immense, and deliciously baleful and lovecraftian. But they take a while to appear meaningfully in the narrative, in name or affect, and this results in the first half of […]

SFPBO finalist Hall of Bones Review

HALL OF BONES BOOK REVIEW Hall of Bones is a solid, competently written viking fantasy book; there is no part of the book, from the prose to the characters to the pacing etc, that falls below good, but there also wasn’t really an element of the story that shone for me. The viking theme is […]

Noryslka Groans Fantasy Book

NORYLSKA GROANS BOOK REVIEW      From page one Norylska Groans expertly immerses the reader in its setting, from the brutal drudgery of working in that time period, to the cold, to the Russian theme of the book, and even the noir theme. The result is an immersive and somewhat depressing read.    The pacing […]

Burn Red Skies By Kerstin Espinosa Rosero Fantasy Book Review

Burn Red Skies starts strong but falters as it progresses. The world with its sky ships and islands, and the elemental magic system is well conceived and appealingly implemented, especially with how the magic is built into the various races and cultures of the world. It gives the world clear definition and aesthetics and, most […]

Blog 70: Twigs

Blog 70 Hello everybody, today we have a piece titled Twigs by Annette on Writing.com. (Warning: mentions of mature content. Mild but present.)       Paragraph 1 The inside walls of the tent reflected the bioluminescence emanating off the elven couple after their lovemaking. Pyria and Rogor lay next to each other holding hands […]

PROOFREADING SERVICES

 Want someone to proofread your writing just in case you wrote —he went then went to the…— or —she was barring her teeth— when you meant she was baring her teeth?  These are the types of bloopers that the average reader might not notice, and are found in both traditional and indie books.  They don’t really […]

Blog 69: The Sacrifice

Blog 69 Hello everybody, today we have a piece from GaelicQueen on Writing.com title The Sacrifice.       Paragraph 1 I listened to the heavy footfalls of the Roman patrol as I hid beneath the cover of an old log and ferns. I held my breath waiting for them to pass.   Thematically/theoretically, this […]