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In reference to Jade's first-person narration, Robin Marx of Grimdark Magazine writes that "Jade’s mind runs a mile a minute, thoughts swirling with movie trivia, hopes, fears, assumptions, misinterpretations, and jumped-to conclusions. Her stream-of-consciousness perspective is sometimes a challenging one, as it’s occasionally difficult ...
A review in Grimdark magazine stated that the book "hurts to read", but is "unputdownable at times". [1] [9] Also released in 2023 was the novel A Sword of Bronze and Ashes, about a retired warrior, Kanda, who is now a wife and mother living peacefully until ancient foes return and threaten the agrarian existence of herself and her family.
Several attempts to define the neologism [3] grimdark have been made: . Adam Roberts described it as fiction "where nobody is honourable and Might is Right", and as "the standard way of referring to fantasies that turn their backs on the more uplifting, Pre-Raphaelite visions of idealized medievaliana, and instead stress how nasty, brutish, short and, er, dark life back then 'really' was".
The Scholomance books were partly inspired by a pair of Eastern European legends about a school of magic where Satan claims the soul of the last graduate to leave." [2] The book received mostly positive reviews. Elizabeth Tabler of the Grimdark Magazine praised the book, calling it "mind-blowing and fantastic" and that she "went clamoring for ...
Brimstone Angels, written by Erin M. Evans, with cover art by Kekai Kotaki, was published by Wizards of the Coast in November 2011 (ISBN 978-0-7869-5846-7) as a 339-page paperback.
A grimdark fantasy, it draws plot points and politics from mid-20th-century China, [1] [2] [3] with the conflict in the novel based on the Second Sino-Japanese War, and an atmosphere inspired by the Song dynasty. [4] A sequel, The Dragon Republic, was released in August 2019, and a third book, The Burning God, was released November 2020. [5]
Critical reception for Dead Silence has been positive and Locus included it on their list of the best horror novels of 2022. [10] [11] [12] Gabino Iglesias reviewed the novel for Locus, praising it for its atmosphere, setting, and for "simultaneously exploring the role that past trauma and PTSD can play when someone who suffers from them is exposed to fresh trauma."
Tina Marie Engler (born January 22, 1972), better known under the pen name Jaid Black, is an American author of erotic romance novels. [1] Engler, the founder and majority stock holder of Ellora's Cave publishing, [2] is behind the creation of what Ellora's Cave has trademarked Romantica, a fusion of the erotica and romance genres in popular English literature. [3]