January | 2015 | The BiblioSanctum

Waiting on Wednesday 01/07/15

Posted on January 7, 2015 14 Comments

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that lets us feature upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on! Mogsy’s Pick: Queen of Fire by Anthony Ryan: July 7, 2015 (Ace) 2015 looks to be a great year for epic fantasy readers, not least because we’ll be seeing some […]

Book Review: The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

Posted on January 6, 2015 21 Comments

The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley Genre: Epic Fantasy Series: Book 2 of Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne Publisher: Tor (January 13, 2015) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 5 of 5 stars You can always tell when I really like a book by how fast I devour it. I gave myself plenty of time to read Brian Staveley’s The […]

Book Review and GIVEAWAY! Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older

Posted on January 5, 2015 19 Comments

GIVEAWAY! *** This giveaway is now over, thanks to everyone who entered! *** Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Genre: Urban Fantasy Series: Book 1 of Bone Street Rumba Publisher: Roc (January 6, 2015) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars It feels like just the other day I was expressing my desire for more ghosts in urban fantasy, […]

Book Review: Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson

Posted on January 4, 2015 7 Comments

The Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson Genre: Urban Fantasy Series: Book 1 of The Witches of Echo Park Publisher: Ace (January 6, 2015) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars The Witches of Echo Park is an interesting but strange and shifting book. At first glance, I thought I would be going into your usual urban […]

Sunday Musings: Resolutions

Posted on January 4, 2015 8 Comments

My 2015 New Years resolution is to read! I know, I know, this is a shocking twist on my usual resolutions, but what can you do. This year I am challenging myself to read 100 books and comics. I don’t know what Worlds Without End has in store for us this year, but in the mean […]

Lootz: Mogsy’s Book Haul

Posted on January 3, 2015 31 Comments

This first book haul post of the new year is also going to be a short one given how we’ve all been in holiday mode for the last couple weeks, but nonetheless some fantastic looking new arrivals have showed up in the mail recently and I’m excited to feature them: Foxglove Summer – I dropped everything […]

Book Review: Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

Posted on January 2, 2015 23 Comments

Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch Genre: Urban Fantasy Series: Book 5 of Peter Grant Publisher: DAW (US: January 6, 2015) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 5 of 5 stars There are only a few urban fantasy series I would drop everything for, and this is one of them. So when Foxglove Summer arrived on my doorstep, I did exactly that […]

Tough Traveling: Holidays

Posted on January 1, 2015 14 Comments

The Thursday feature “Tough Traveling” is the brainchild of Nathan of Review Barn, who has come up with the excellent idea of making a new list each week based on the most common tropes in fantasy, as seen in The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynn Jones. Nathan has invited anyone who is interested […]