Justin Bowers
It’s very rare that I read a book that I know absolutely nothing about and turns out to be so incredibly life changing. This is one of those books. I cannot say enough about the worldbuilding that Ms. Chambers spins into this incredibly wholesome tale. Dex is a monk unhappy with their role in...
Justin Bowers
There is something completely magical, and utterly frustrating about serialized short fiction. That being said, Mr. Hopkins has been quite adept at tapping into the cliff-hanger aspect of it that I seriously admire. When we last left our intrepid heroes, Gydan and Yurig, children of the...
Justin Bowers
Mr. Hopkins has done it again. While the serialized releases of his Dryad’s Crown series are excruciating because of the waiting, A Hidden Burrow Near Barcombe really made the wait worth it. Previously we were introduced to the semi-mysterious Silbrey, her family, and her near-insane past....
Justin Bowers
I read a lot of fantasy books (hell, I just read a lot), and there is one key element that really drags me in and makes me seriously invested in a novel: worldbuilding. In sixty painfully short pages, Mr. Hopkins has built such a robust world that it seems like all that is left for the...