The Two Doctors Review

Solace Lost, by Michael Sliter, explores a dark fantasy world rife with murder, magic, and mayhem. Its principle characters, Fenrir and Merigold, experience tragedy after tragedy on their journey toward finding some semblance of peace in their lives. Their lives intersect with each other in unexpected ways, culminating in a final series of battles that push each character to their limits.

I’m not really sure why I made a Star Wars reference in the title to this review, but it fits, so it stays.

I had minimal expectations when I opened Little Gnome, Big Water. Why? Because I really don’t like the book cover. While the artwork is creative, it doesn’t really communicate anything about the story to me . . . and after reading the book, I absolutely think the narrative goes well beyond what is displayed on its front.

It’s historical fiction, but not the sort of historical fiction many readers might expect. It’s not a book that explores a significant event in history from a new perspective. Rather, Schleicher thrusts readers deep into the early part of the twentieth century, with real people living real lives and experiencing a thrilling, suspenseful tale.

it’ll suck you in, thrusting you on a whirlwind of magic, fantasy, and introspective thought as you consider the roadblocks facing our own world. We’re facing down a climate crisis, just like the Agraxians. The stakes are just as high, the barriers just as big.

It’s official! We’ve launched the first #ShortStorySaturday, where we’re encouraging everyone on Twitter to read specific short stories, collectively, review, and discuss. Hopefully, we can give a few writers a boost each week! Follow the new novelty twitter account at @ShortSaturday. If you’re an author, we’ll follow back!

If you’re looking to taste military scifi, you should absolutely read Crystal and Flint, especially because its only 330 or so pages, as opposed to the regular length of most military scifi!

Duckett & Dyer: Dicks for Hire by G. M. Nair is the exact opposite of Dark Matter in all the right ways. Where Dark Matter goes dark, Duckett & Dyer goes absurd. Where Dark Matter goes hard science, Duckett & Dyer says “screw it, it works how we want it to work because we say so.”

Within the first few chapters, I immediately found myself reminiscing to evenings with my family as a kid watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You've got your religious vampire hunters, sassy bad boy vampires, and crazy werewolves. Throw in a few weird behaviors of the vampires, actions sequences straight out of the Boondock Saints (yes, I know, not Vampires) or even Blade. 

I’m excited to follow Francis’s future works; Elysia is a masterclass in worldbuilding. Francis has endless room to grow in building stories to fill the worlds inside his head.

If you’re looking for mad, comedic, quick read, How Not To Be A Rogue will exceed all expectations. Its rich, multi-dimensional characters push the story from page to page; it barely feels like you’re even reading.

I’d recommend this book for anyone interested in the late colonial period of the United States! Any Hamilton fans (the biography and the musical, too) out there? Then this book is for you!

If you’re looking for a young adult fantasy with romance, fantastical magic, and an ever-expanding mythos, then Korrigan is a must-read!

Urban Gothic. Not my favorite title, and I don’t see the connection to the story, but that doesn’t exactly matter, because the story contained inside is fantastical and wonderful and poignant. It cuts to the soul, for its themes slice through the psychological and the broken and the wounded.