Not Good for Maidens by Toni Bovalino Titan Books, pb, £8.27 Reviewed by Melody Bowles Not Good For Maidens retells Christina Rossetti’s famous poem Goblin Market. The book’s evocative descriptions of the titular market are the best thing about it, offering up both unlikely wonders and bone-chilling horrors. The book… Read More »Not Good for Maidens by Toni Bovalino from @TitanBooks
The Butcher by Laura Kat Young Titan Books, paperback, £8.99 Reviewed by Robin C.M. Duncan Normally, I would try to keep myself out of a review and remain objective about a book, but I found that impossible with this story, which is so painfully intimate, sharply focused and internalised in… Read More »The Butcher by Laura Kat Young from @TitanBooks
DAWNSHARD by Brandon Sanderson Titan Books, hardback, £9.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan The Stormlight Archive, of which Dawnshard is a small part, is a section of a massive enterprise that Sanderson calls the Cosmere that links all his adult novels. Stormlight is the energy that can be captured and stored… Read More »DAWNSHARD by Brandon Sanderson from @TitanBooks
SCORPICA by G.R. Macallister. Titan Books. p/b. £8.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Each of the five Queendoms has responsibility for a particular area of skill. Paxim has trade, while Sestia’s land is rich for farming. The Bastion has its scribes and records. In Arca, they serve Chaos and have magic… Read More »SCORPICA by G.R. Macallister from @TitanBooks
THE SOMEBODY PEOPLE By Bob Proehl Titan Books, s/b, £9.99 Reviewed by Matthew Johns The sequel to The Nobody People takes up the story of those with extraordinary abilities who had been persecuted by those with none and transposed their roles. In the first novel, the people with fantastic powers… Read More »THE SOMEBODY PEOPLE By Bob Proehl from @TitanBooks
HOOKED by A.C.Wise Titan, 334-page p/b, £8.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan Once the works of an author are out of copyright, the characters created enter the public domain and become fair game for others. There have been several approaches. Freda Warrington was commissioned to write Dracula the Undead, a sequel… Read More »HOOKED by A.C.Wise from @TitanBooks
Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi Titan, pb, £8.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Set in the same universe, Ghostwritten is a collection of four novellas about haunted books and stories from the same author, Ronald Malfi. In The Skin of Her Teeth, a haunted story resists adaptation into a screenplay with murderous… Read More »Out Today Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi from @TitanBooks
The Path of Thorns by A. G. Slatter Titan Books, pbk, £8.99 Reviewed by Ian Hunter Wow, Gothic, or what? Well, obviously gothic, as in the opening pages of The Path of Thorns, would-be governess Asher Todd is trying to get to Morwood Grange. However, the last of the carriages… Read More »The Path of Thorns by A. G. Slatter from @TitanBooks
CACKLE by Rachel Harrison. Titan Books. p/b. £8.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. In New York, Annie Crane is celebrating (or commiserating) her 30th birthday with Nadia, a colleague she barely knows (and should have spent time getting to know) whilst in the midst of a breakup. Heartbroken Annie has decided… Read More »Available for Pre-Order – CACKLE by Rachel Harrison from @TitanBooks
A MAGIC STEEPED IN POISON by Judy I. Lin. Titan Books. p/b. £8.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Ning’s mother is dead, a victim of the tea poisonings that are spreading across the empire, and her sister will soon follow. Neither Ning nor her physician father has been able to stop… Read More »Out today A MAGIC STEEPED IN POISON by Judy I. Lin from @TitanBooks