Thrust suddenly into a world they do not understand, two children struggle to find their place. Axe wielding ten year olds and giant mechanical teddy bears abound as they narrate from their sometimes alternating points of view. . . .
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King Bonfort, ruler of the Twelve Kingdoms, is forced from power by a conspiracy led by a sorcerer and supported by powerful magic, otherworldly allies and traitorous subjects of Bonfort’s own. Can the king protect his people from the evil that would take over their world? . . .
Deucalion Chronicles is a meta-series containing many stories all set within the same universe. So what’s that universe look like? To put it in TvTropes terms, it would be Fantasy Kitchen Sink Space Opera, full of Magitek. Or, to put it another way, it’s what happens when high fantasy gets out of the dark ages, shoots past urban fantasy, and . . .
Elven magic meets gunslinger grit. What happens when two elven travellers find themselves in the United States in the middle of the Civil War? The Adventures of Black Mask and Pale Rider tells the story of two elven women who’s curiosity gets the better of them. The wild ride takes them from the Union to the Confederacy and back again. . . .
Alaisa is an elven huntress, silent and deadly. Her brother Hilner, on the other hand, is an elven magician, loud and annoying but smart in his own way. When a senator asks the two of them to investigate the Verel family, who have been cursed to lose every one of their firstborn in strange accidents, they cannot refuse. The mystery . . .
This novel follows the lives of three separate characters as they deal with a great societal upheaval. . . .
Hiding from her past and her people was all Celine wanted to do. And she found the best place to hide, as an elf, was in the midst of humans, where her very uniqueness was it’s own anonymity. Until the day a fellow elf, Rathaniel, destroyed her safety and comfort. Her life now tied to his, she follows this man, . . .
Every folklore tradition in Europe seems to have stories about the time when the Fair Folk left for a land across the sea. Two best friends are about to discover where they went. The main story is told through a trunk of character blogs, and can be enjoyed by itself, but there is a supplemental wiki that branches out . . .
Evonalé has never cared for tales of loathsome tyrants, seduced maids, and prophesied saviors. In the world of Aleyi, prophecies always come true. Evonalé herself is supposed to somehow free her grandmother’s enslaved queendom. But she’s merely a child, and her father is the powerful fire mage who subjugates the realm. Evonalé has therefore fled home, her two half-siblings, . . .
Thrust suddenly into a world they do not understand, two children struggle to find their place. Axe wielding ten year olds and giant mechanical teddy bears abound as they narrate from their sometimes alternating points of view. . . .
Stories with a nice dose of the unusual: A demon who rebels against Lucifer; a girl whose family adopts a robot; childhood friends who reunite on board a space elevator. Science fiction and fantasy, with occasional dips-of-the-toe into other genres. The main blog also includes drawings and comments on writing. . . .
Lyssa Stormwater has known hardships. From the highs and lows of her downtrodden upbringing, to life on the streets of Stonebridge. The friends she makes, the loves she finds, and the obstacles she overcomes. This is Lyssa’s Tale. . . .
An ongoing historical fantasy story set in the north of England in the decades following the Norman Conquest. The story is illustrated with screenshots from The Sims 2, and published chapter-by-chapter on the Web. . . .
Dorothea’s Song is a 400 page D&D-style Chosen One fantasy adventure novel, written in the pages of a journal of a boy growing up Catholic in the early ’80s. As we learn in the journal segments that start the piece and then occur at increasingly frequent intervals within the overall text, the story is written as an assignment (and labour [more . . .]
Earlier today I reviewed "Beyond Knowledge," a piece of speculative fiction about a world recovering from nuclear war and how society might be different. "Unlikely Eden" has almost the same premise. The difference is in the execution.
In "BK" the protagonist,Tye, is raised by his mother. His father is unknown to [more . . .]