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Rosemarie Cawkwell/Everything Is Better With Dragons book review
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Reader and writer of fantasy and sci fi, reviewer of mostly sci-fi and fantasy, some crime, and non-fiction. Butler to a rescue feline called Phoenix. Collector of books, yarn, and dragon stuffies. Neurodivergent and Queer. Based in Lincolnshire.
Review: The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe

Genre – horror > supernatural● ISBN hardback – 978-1-78758-918-6● ISBN ebook – 978-1-78758-919-3● Pricing $26.95 (HB) / $4.99 (EB)● Pricing £20 (HB) / £4.95 (EB)● Releases January 20 2026● Published by Flame Tree Press● Distributed by Hachette UK / Simon &…
Review: The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe
Genre – horror > supernatural● ISBN hardback – 978-1-78758-918-6● ISBN ebook – 978-1-78758-919-3● Pricing $26.95 (HB) / $4.99 (EB)● Pricing £20 (HB) / £4.95 (EB)● Releases January 20 2026● Published by Flame Tree Press● Distributed by Hachette UK / Simon & Schuster US SYNOPSIS Driving a logging truck through the Romanian mountains, smuggler Rosi and her crew come across a radio signal that hints at impending doom.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Review: Lives of Bitter Rain, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Format: 126 pages, HardcoverPublished: October 14, 2025 by Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra BookISBN 9781035911448Format: Audible AudioPublished: October 14, 2025 by Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have…
Review: Lives of Bitter Rain, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Format: 126 pages, HardcoverPublished: October 14, 2025 by Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra BookISBN 9781035911448Format: Audible AudioPublished: October 14, 2025 by Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring ‘Perfection’ and ‘Correctness’ to an imperfect world. But before these ruthless Tyrant Philosophers send in their legions, they despatch Outreach – the rain before the storm.
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February 1, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Review: Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, by Greer Stothers

ISBN: 9781835413807Format: PaperbackPages: 384Published:3 Feb 2026 (US)3 Feb 2026 (UK) Description In Which Many Dangerous and Homosexual Things Happen. All his life, Sir Cameron has stayed as far away from danger as possible. He is…
Review: Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, by Greer Stothers
ISBN: 9781835413807Format: PaperbackPages: 384Published:3 Feb 2026 (US)3 Feb 2026 (UK) Description In Which Many Dangerous and Homosexual Things Happen. All his life, Sir Cameron has stayed as far away from danger as possible. He is quite frankly too handsome to die a pointless death in battle. But then the Church hands down a prophecy to his fellow knights: the only way to defeat their nemesis, the mad sorcerer Merulo, is to kill Sir Cameron.
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January 31, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Review: The Hope, by Paul E Hardisty

PUBLICATION DATE: 29 JANUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster –…
Review: The Hope, by Paul E Hardisty
PUBLICATION DATE: 29 JANUARY 2026PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what’s left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart.
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January 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Review: Ballad of the Bone Road, by A.C. Wise

ISBN: 9781835413784Format: PaperbackPages: 320Published: 27th Jan 2026 Description Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation – and Port Astor decided to…
Review: Ballad of the Bone Road, by A.C. Wise
ISBN: 9781835413784Format: PaperbackPages: 320Published: 27th Jan 2026 Description Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation – and Port Astor decided to forget. Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astor’s wraiths and spectres from consuming the city. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belizial; Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancée in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go.
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January 25, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Blog Tour Calendar: The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe

26 Jan @pasiklydevertime @fatguyreading 27 Jan @jo_scho_reads @bookwormwhitlock86 28 Jan @alittlemixofvix @_clairereviews_ 29 Jan @zoeforeverreading16 @wildwritinglife 30 Jan @nadz_sargent 02 Feb @runalongwomble 03 Feb @gemmasbookshelf…
Blog Tour Calendar: The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe
26 Jan @pasiklydevertime @fatguyreading 27 Jan @jo_scho_reads @bookwormwhitlock86 28 Jan @alittlemixofvix @_clairereviews_ 29 Jan @zoeforeverreading16 @wildwritinglife 30 Jan @nadz_sargent 02 Feb @runalongwomble 03 Feb @gemmasbookshelf @betterdragons.bsky.social 04 Feb @susiesbookbubble 05 Feb @bookshelf_wonders 06 Feb @ramblingmads @pause_theframe
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January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Review: Healing In (Re)Verse, by B.S. Casey

Release date: 28 January 2026Kindle eBookPaperbackHardback later in 2026Page count: 40Self-Published Blurb A short, mixed style poetry collection about not dying just yet - exploringchronic illness, depression, trauma and finding moments of joy and love…
Review: Healing In (Re)Verse, by B.S. Casey
Release date: 28 January 2026Kindle eBookPaperbackHardback later in 2026Page count: 40Self-Published Blurb A short, mixed style poetry collection about not dying just yet - exploringchronic illness, depression, trauma and finding moments of joy and love ina painful world. Inspired by the authors own experiences with disability,trauma, healing and then healing again, this collection captures the strange…
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January 21, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Blog tour calendar: The Hope, by Paul E Hardisty
Blog tour calendar: The Hope, by Paul E Hardisty
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January 18, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Review: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy

The paperback is 283 pages. Genre is sci-fi, cli-fi and dystopian. Blurb: When the past lies buried beneath the waves, and the present hides behind a veneer, what power do we have over the future? As high-flying energy magnate, Parsley Ringland,…
Review: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy
The paperback is 283 pages. Genre is sci-fi, cli-fi and dystopian. Blurb: When the past lies buried beneath the waves, and the present hides behind a veneer, what power do we have over the future? As high-flying energy magnate, Parsley Ringland, prepares for maternity leave, tragedy strikes. She passes out after a health complication and wakes up elsewhere. In the tower that sustained the life she had once known.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Blog tour calendar: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy
Blog tour calendar: The Girl in the Tower, by Harrison Murphy
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January 11, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Blog tour calendar: Healing in (Re)Verse, by BS Casey
Blog tour calendar: Healing in (Re)Verse, by BS Casey
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January 11, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Review: In Solitude’s Shadow, by David Green

War Comes For Those Who Forge It. And It Never Forgives... Haltveldt is a nation built on bloodshed. With the Order of Sparkers brought to heel, Emperor Locke wields his mages - and their magic the Spark - like a weapon as he wages a war of genocide.…
Review: In Solitude’s Shadow, by David Green
War Comes For Those Who Forge It. And It Never Forgives... Haltveldt is a nation built on bloodshed. With the Order of Sparkers brought to heel, Emperor Locke wields his mages - and their magic the Spark - like a weapon as he wages a war of genocide. But the enemies of his empire multiply. In the almost-forgotten north, the ancient citadel of Solitude, filled with two-hundred exiled Sparkers, watches over the mysterious Banished.
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January 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
ARC Review: Queen of the Dead, by Sarah Broadway

25th November 2025 | PB | 9781915998927 | £9.99/$18.99 |Also available in ebook | Fiction | Fantasy | Paranormal ABOUT THE BOOK: Conversing with the dead is nothing new for Lou. It’s a curse she’s learned to hide from everyone – including herself.…
ARC Review: Queen of the Dead, by Sarah Broadway
25th November 2025 | PB | 9781915998927 | £9.99/$18.99 |Also available in ebook | Fiction | Fantasy | Paranormal ABOUT THE BOOK: Conversing with the dead is nothing new for Lou. It’s a curse she’s learned to hide from everyone – including herself. After running away from a past that took advantage of those abilities, Lou finally carves out a normal life for herself.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I've had a busy day - visit mum and step-dad, saw both my sisters, a cousin and my cousin's kid, walked from one side of my home town to the other, saw my friend and her parents for an hour, then visited the older sister and her family for a couple of hours. I came home with a tub of swizzels
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I've just had to email someone to tell them not to offer money to a reviewer for a review. It was a lot of money (by my standards) too. I told them to contact a blog tour organiser instead if they have money, made them aware of scams targeting and indie authors, and pointed out that they could
December 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Review: Magic, Maps, and Mischief, by David Green

Format:427 pages, PaperbackPublished: October 8, 2025 by Independently publishedISBN: 9798269020877 Book Description What Would You Do To Discover Your Heart’s Desire? Greton of Willow is in a spot of bother. Caught in the act while escorting a…
Review: Magic, Maps, and Mischief, by David Green
Format:427 pages, PaperbackPublished: October 8, 2025 by Independently publishedISBN: 9798269020877 Book Description What Would You Do To Discover Your Heart’s Desire? Greton of Willow is in a spot of bother. Caught in the act while escorting a family of elves to safety, Greton flees for greener pastures with only his scant magic and brilliant mind to his name.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My favourite SFF of 2025

These books weren't necessarily published this year, some of them are quite old, but they are books I've read, enjoyed and reviewed this year. Fiction The Trials of Empire, by Richard Swan The House of Frost and Flowers, by Lauren Wiesebron The Word for World is Forest, by…
My favourite SFF of 2025
These books weren't necessarily published this year, some of them are quite old, but they are books I've read, enjoyed and reviewed this year. Fiction The Trials of Empire, by Richard Swan The House of Frost and Flowers, by Lauren Wiesebron The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. LeGuin Symbiote, by Michael Nayak Days of Shattered Faith, by Adrian Tchaikovsky…
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December 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Review: Dead Silence, by S.A. Barnes

Format: 352 pages, PaperbackPublished: January 24, 2023 by Tor TradeISBN: 9781250778543 Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet…
Review: Dead Silence, by S.A. Barnes
Format: 352 pages, PaperbackPublished: January 24, 2023 by Tor TradeISBN: 9781250778543 Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed―made obsolete―when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Review: Moojang and the Sloth Guardians, by N.E. McMorran

Publisher Spondylux Press Publish Date 10 December 2025 Pages 208 Language English Type Paperback ISBN 9781838097844 Moojag and Nema are back for a final roller coaster of an adventure, this time to save Box Hill from total destruction and…
Review: Moojang and the Sloth Guardians, by N.E. McMorran
Publisher Spondylux Press Publish Date 10 December 2025 Pages 208 Language English Type Paperback ISBN 9781838097844 Moojag and Nema are back for a final roller coaster of an adventure, this time to save Box Hill from total destruction and rescue a bunch of mossy sloths from nasty Brix’s celebration feast. But their new, slow-moving friends have a secret weaponand together they’re all set to prove that saving the Real World…
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December 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Review: Moojag and the Lost Memories, by N.E. McMorran

The stand-alone sequel to ‘Moojag and the Auticode Secret’, endorsed by award-winning authors Patience Agbabi, Alex Falase-Koya, Ben Davis, and Daniel Aubrey. A multigenerational story, featuring a neurodivergent cast and audhd, non-binary,…
Review: Moojag and the Lost Memories, by N.E. McMorran
The stand-alone sequel to ‘Moojag and the Auticode Secret’, endorsed by award-winning authors Patience Agbabi, Alex Falase-Koya, Ben Davis, and Daniel Aubrey. A multigenerational story, featuring a neurodivergent cast and audhd, non-binary, POC, main characters, for readers 8 years and over. When Nema returns to Gajoomdom, she discovers three forgetful grannies who have totally lost track of time. If she and Moojag can’t help them remember, everyone’s memories are in danger.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Daily prompt

What are your favorite physical activities or exercises? Swimming and walking. I'm not very coordinated so I need something to do that I can do on my own. I used to be an archer, which is also a solo sport, but then I slipped on a wet concrete floor and damaged my back and hip. These…
Daily prompt
What are your favorite physical activities or exercises? Swimming and walking. I'm not very coordinated so I need something to do that I can do on my own. I used to be an archer, which is also a solo sport, but then I slipped on a wet concrete floor and damaged my back and hip. These days I like to go to aqua aerobics as well as swimming lengths.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Blog tour calendar: Queen of the Dead, by Sarah Broadway
Blog tour calendar: Queen of the Dead, by Sarah Broadway
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December 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Review: Moojag and the Auticode Secret, by N.E, MacMorran

Format: 288 pages, PaperbackPublished: November 9, 2020 by Spondylux PressISBN: 9781838097806  Book description When Nema and her friends discover a hidden sugar-hooked society holding lost kids, they find their perfect world in danger. The…
Review: Moojag and the Auticode Secret, by N.E, MacMorran
Format: 288 pages, PaperbackPublished: November 9, 2020 by Spondylux PressISBN: 9781838097806  Book description When Nema and her friends discover a hidden sugar-hooked society holding lost kids, they find their perfect world in danger. The strange, sticky place hides the truth about Nema’s missing brother, and a plot to destroy the free world she knows. But only they can reverse a code to prevent a rock candy robot invasion and rescue the captives.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This afternoon I am mostly reading Moojag and the Auticode Secret by N.E. McMorran. The third and final book in the series, Moojag and the sloth guardians will be released on Thursday, and I'm trying to get the first two read before then.
December 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM