Category: Reviews & Critiques
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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 67 (Captured In Words)
Amiant Soul | Kindred of the Sea | Darkness Below | The Mesozoic |I wanted to see more of two books from todays batch: a lovecraft university story and an opening that focused on two forlorn soldiers forced to march on an elven wood, reminding me more than a little of The Lord of the…
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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 66 (Captured In Words)
Obsidian Murders| Guarding Gus | Forged By Pain | Sailing to Redoubt | Four or five openings today, but only one of which I felt compelled to read more of and recommend to your attention: a fun UF of a young woman who can see faeries but just wants to be a journalist and afford…
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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 65 (Captured In Words)
By Blood, By Salt | Gabriel’s Journey | A Song Of Octavan | I wanted to read more form the SPFBOX champion and a quaint fieldmouse story. A third opening from a romantic fantasy didn’t quite do enough to hook me. (from Captured In Words) 148. JL Odom, By Blood, By Salt For 14 years…
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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 64 (Captured In Words)
Dawn of the Black Sun | My Name Is Not Alice | Copper Cold Steel | I wanted to see more of two more fantasy openings: an action anime fantasy, and a contemporary YA Alice in Wonderland riff. A 3rd European Fantasy was too locked into its MC’s head and didn’t keep my interest. (from…
Tom Mock 