Hello! Welcome to Wombling Along the blog’s weekend supplement where I share reviews and other things online that catch my eye online. Grab a cuppa, relax and get booktempted. I’m typing this up...

Aidan Bunker Under Review:The Eagle in the Mountain. Caskey Russell. Solaris, November 2026. For the first 50 pages of Caskey Russell’s The Eagle in the Mountain (sequel to The Door on the Sea), I …

The Son of the Serpent by Shauna Lawless, the fifth of her Gael Song books, is another excellent instalment of this enthralling historical fantasy series.

Dive into Claire North's captivating tale of time travel, love, and betrayal, as characters reshape history amidst impending catastrophe.

Find Me Where It Ends review: Cassandra Khaw’s frank black dog novella about depression frightens by being kind. Four stars, with one real flaw.

What is the value of surprise in a story? Is it necessary?

Spoilers: NoneGenre: FantasyFormat: HardbackSource: BoughtRating: Adored (6★) I impulse-bought The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale after tylersshelf posted a TikTok review saying, ‘This b…

Alex Brown reviews a sometimes frustrating, sometimes haunting, always unique new horror novel.

A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. For years I would have said that the quintessential Rivendell chapter of LOTR is Book II, Ch…

Genevieve Williams Under Review:The Sea-Glass Shore. Julie Salmon Kelleher. Forest Avenue Press, September 2026. The selkie legend is common knowledge: beings who shapeshift between human and seal,…

And so, we come to the destruction of the Ring. Surely, this is the end! Everything solved, happy fun time. Well… not so much1. This time, we’re covering III – Mount Doom and IV &…

Time Travel for Beginners, Jaclyn Moriarty (Berkley 978-0-59382-033-9, $30.00, 544pp, hc) August 2026. Some of the buzziest books in recent years have either fully embraced or flirted with the idea…

“Of course, I haven’t exactly conducted a survey,” Robert was saying, “but I get the impression that people used to see ghosts a lot more often than they do these days. Doesn’t it seem like the…

Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle; As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers; The Eye of Goliath by Diego Muzzio; Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm

Hello, everyone! Today I'm reviewing Bright and Broken Things by Ryan Graudin. I enjoyed the beautiful writing and great character work in The Enchanted Lies of Celeste Artois by Graudin. So, I was quite excited when I saw she had written a novel about the Egyptology craze of the 1920s. Was my excitement warranted? Read on to find out!

My Review: I picked this up because I absolutely adored The Terraformers and especially Automatic Noodle, and was hoping, well, not necessarily for more of the same because they’re not the same as each other except for the spark of hope at the end. I was hoping for something as good and as thought provoking - and that I definitely got. At first, this is a kind of dark academia story. Only it isn’t the usual kind of dark academia story because this isn’t fantasy. AT ALL. It’s dark academia in a science fictional setting like Malka Older’s…

It does not have a conventional linear narrative, but instead proceeds episodically, loops back almost to its starting-point, and finishes not on a revelation but a suspension.

My spotlight projects have been lying dormant the past few years, as life got in the way. But I always planned to bring them back and today we celebrate the return of the Non-Fiction Spotlight project. For more about the Non-Fiction Spotlight project, go here. To check out previous Non-Fiction Spotlights, go here. This first new Non-Fiction Spotlight is actually a sequel of sorts to a previous Non-Fiction Spotlight, since back in 2022, I featured Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros by Fiona Moore…

Kit Whitfield weighs up Lizzie Borden films from Hitchcock to Shudder's Lizzie, picks the 1975 TV film as the best, then makes the case for Angela Carter.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.