Nothing brings people together like a funeral, so special shout-out to Laena Velaryon for giving us the spectacle that was “Driftmark.” With every major player in attendance, we were treated to an episode filled with everything from subtle power dynamics to full-blown attempted murder. Normally we have to wait for weddings for this type of…
Ben Aaronovitch is a HUGO Award-nominated author. He began his career as a screenwriter and contributed to the original two seasons of the television show, Doctor Who, among others. Aaronovitch later became a bookseller before returning to writing with his Sunday Times bestselling Rivers of London series of contemporary urban fantasy/crime fiction novels. He was born and…
What defines a fantasy novel? An otherworld setting? Magic? A sword on the cover? Most of you reading this post will be some sort of a fantasy reader and there won’t be much that I—a fantasy newbie—could illuminate for you about this intriguing genre. What I can do, however, is share my experience of how…
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff is a new epic fantasy series featuring a young assassin-in-training named Mia Corvere, and it hits shelves on August 9th! We've been noticing a ton of early rave reviews popping up all over the blogosphere, and we couldn't help but share this amazing fan-made book trailer. The creator, Sarah, also runs things over…
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. This week, Jay Kristoff kicks off GIFnotes with a brilliant summary of the 1st book in his new epic fanatasy series, Nevernight.
“The Door” marked the official halfway point of Game of Thrones’ sixth season, and it did so with emphatic exclamation. We’ll get to the somber ending north of The Wall in a bit, but first, I want to give a standing ovation to the wonderful troupe of actors who perfectly summarized the entirety of Season…
“Book of the Stranger,” the fourth episode of Game of Thrones’ sixth season, solidifies that Westeros is, and will continue to be, a world led by women. And these aren’t just adequate women. These are resilient, intelligent, capable women, and their abilities were on full display last night. Yara Greyjoy (Gemma Whelan), an Ironborn through…
Power is a dangerous thing, likely to attract the worst and corrupt the best, and as those in power learned last night on Game of Thrones, that statment really hits the nail on the head. “Mother’s Mercy” might have been the title, but there wasn’t much forgiveness left to go around. Let’s start with Cersei…
During the last two weeks of Game of Thrones, the true players have emerged. No, it’s not the Tyrells, or the Lannisters, or even Littlefinger. George R.R. Martin’s series has always been a song of ice and fire. Last week, we glimpsed the true terror of ice in the massacre orchestrated by the White Walkers,…
When Jon Snow’s Valyrian steel sword met the White Walker’s ice-blade, a melody nine years in making finally rang out – a song of ice and fire. And so it was fitting that afterwards, as silence engulfed the end of “Hardhome,” we were left with the grim realization that everything else we've been focused on…
