Best Fantasy Books of 2015

Below you will find a list of the fantasy books published in 2015 that we enjoyed most. Click on a book title to read the full review.

The Sorcerer's Glen by Lucinda Hare (The Dragonsdome Chronicles: Book 5)

The Grand Master sat back in his chair with his blue eyes closed and sent a small prayer earthwards. The White Sorcerer had returned a little after the hour of the sabre-toothed rabbit, having enco...

Published: 2015

The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co #3)

Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambolic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. And they get resu...

Published: 2015

The Thief by Claire North (Gamehouse #2)

The Gameshouse is an unusual institution. Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost through games of Chess, Backgammon - every game under the sun. But a select few, who are pick...

Published: 2015

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch #3)

For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist and a messenger ...

Published: 2015

Half the World by Joe Abercrombie (Shattered Sea #2)

Sometimes a girl is touched by mother war. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. So...

Published: 2015

Collateral Damage by Tim Marquitz (Demon Squad: Book 8)

Escaped from prison and back in his own body, life has taken a turn toward the domestic for Frank “Triggaltheron” Trigg. His days are filled with diapers, formula, and baby farts, and h...

Published: 2015

Ruin by John Gwynne (The Faithful and The Fallen #3)

The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron, most powerful of the seven treasures. At his back stands the ...

Published: 2015

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows: Book 1)

Six of Crows is a fantastic book, one of the best fantasy heist books going around. It is funny, tragic, witty, silly, murderous, thoughtful and more all in one package. If there is a criticism, it...

Published: 2015

Queen of Fire by Anthony Ryan (Raven's Shadow: Book 3)

Queen Lyrna has survived the bloody siege of Alltor. Now she must rally her troops and take back the capital from the Volarian invaders. But driving her hated enemy out of the Realm will not satisf...

Published: 2015

City of Wonders by James A Moore (Seven Forges series #3)

Old Canhoon, the City of Wonders, is facing a population explosion as refugees from Tyrne and Roathes alike try to escape the Sa’ba Taalor. All along the border between the Blasted Lands and ...

Published: 2015

The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School by Kim Newman

When her mother finds her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is sent to Drearcliff Grange School in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular 1920s boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff g...

Published: 2015

The Serpent by Claire North (Gamehouse #1)

In seventeenth century Venice exists a mysterious establishment known only as the Gameshouse. There, fortunes are made and fortunes are broken over games of chess, backgammon and every other game u...

Published: 2015

The Liar's Key by Mark Lawrence (Red Queen's War #2)

The Red Queen has set her players on the board… Winter is keeping Prince Jalan Kendeth far from the luxuries of his southern palace. And although the North may be home to his companion, the ...

Published: 2015

Twelve Kings by Bradley Beaulieu (The Song of the Shattered Sands #1)

In the cramped west end of Sharakhai, the Amber Jewel of the Desert, Çeda fights in the pits to scrape a living. She, like so many in the city, pray for the downfall of the cruel, immortal K...

Published: 2015

The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (The Broken Earth: Book 1)

Reading the Broken Earth trilogy can be a brutal, painful experience. There is much tragedy, despair and the characters’ futures often look nothing but bleak. But these ambitious, heartbreaki...

Published: 2015

Hunt for Valamon by DK Mok

When Crown Prince Valamon is impossibly taken from the heart of Algaris Castle, the only clue as to motive or culprit is the use of unknown sorcery. Reclusive cleric Seris is happily tending to his...

Published: 2015

Day Boy by Trent Jamieson

Mark is a Day Boy. In a post-traumatic future the Masters - formerly human, now practically immortal - rule a world that bends to their will and a human population upon which they feed. Invincible ...

Published: 2015

From Hell by Tim Marquitz (Demon Squad: A Novella)

The Demon Squad series has a lot in common with The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne, and the Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey. If you have never read a ...

Published: 2015

The Death House by Sarah Pinborough

Toby's life was perfectly normal... until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test. Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House; an out-of-time existence far from t...

Published: 2015

Firefight by Brandon Sanderson (A Reckoners Novel #2)

Babylon Restored, formerly Manhattan, may give David answers. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic, Regalia, David is sure Babylon Restored will lead him to what he needs to find. And while entering a...

Published: 2015

The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan (The Powder Mage Trilogy: Book 3)

Field Marshal Tamas has finally returned to Adopest, only to find the capital in the hands of a foreign power. With his son Taniel presumed dead, Tamas must gather his beleaguered forces and formul...

Published: 2015

The Boy Who Wept Blood by Den Patrick (The Erebus Sequence #2)

Ten years have passed since the disappearance of Lucien and his protégé, the young swordsman Dino, is struggling to live up to Lucien's legacy. Sworn to protect the silent queen A...

Published: 2015

Steeple by Jon Wallace (Kenstibec #2)

Kenstibec is a Ficial - a genetically engineered artificial life form; tough, skilled, hard to kill. Or at least he was. He's lost the nanotech that constantly repaired him. Life just got real....

Published: 2015

Veiled by Benedict Jacka (Alex Verus series: Book 6)

Alex Verus is a mage who can see the future, but even he didn't see this day coming. He's agreed to join the Keepers, the magical police force, to protect his friends from his old master, t...

Published: 2015

The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

Paris in the aftermath of the Great Magicians War. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black, thick with ashes and rubble. Yet life continu...

Published: 2015

The Rebirths of Tao by Wesley Chu (Tao #3)

The centuries-long schism between the Genjix and the Prophus threatens to plunge the whole planet into a new World War. Roen is the only person who can protect a turned Genjix scientist who holds t...

Published: 2015

Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb (Fitz and the Fool #2)

Happy endings never last... Years ago, they freed a dragon from the glaciers on Aslevjal. Then they parted ways, the Fool returning to far-off Clerres, while Fitz finally claimed a wife, a family, ...

Published: 2015

The Price of Valour by Django Wexler (The Shadow Campaigns #3)

In the wake of the King's death, war has come to Vordan. The new queen, Raesinia, is nearly powerless as the government tightens its grip and assassins threaten her life. Together with Marcus D...

Published: 2015

The Silence by Tim Lebbon

In the darkness of an underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive and destroy. T...

Published: 2015

The Cathedral of Known Things by Edward Cox (Relic Guild Trilogy #2)

Divided, hunted and short on resources, the surviving members of the Relic Guild are in real trouble. Their old enemy, the Genii, and their resurrected master have infiltrated Labrys Town and taken...

Published: 2015

A Few Words for the Dead by Guy Adams (The Clown Service #3)

Section 37 is under attack. Toby Greene, a Clown Service agent, is on the hunt. But catching someone whose bodyguard is the relentless Rain-Soaked Bride can be a deadly game. Section Chief August S...

Published: 2015

Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn: Book 5)

Waxillium Ladrian has returned to the capital city of Elendel from the far flung roughs. Elendel is crisscrossed by canals and railways and towers reach for the sky but this is still a city of dang...

Published: 2015

The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher (The Cinder Spires #1)

Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, develo...

Published: 2015

The Death of Dulgath by Michael J Sullivan (The Ryria Chronicles #3)

Three times they tried to kill her. Then a professional was hired. So was Riyria. When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avryn is targeted for assassination, Riyria is hired to foil the...

Published: 2015

The Master by Claire North (Gamehouse #3)

The Gamehouse is an unusual institution. Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost through games of Chess, Backgammon - every game under the sun. But a select few, who are ...

Published: 2015

Touch by Claire North

Kepler is like you, but not like you. With a simple touch, Kepler can move into any body, live any life - for a moment, a day or for years. And your life could be next. SOME PEOPLE TOUCH LIVES. OTH...

Published: 2015

When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord

A small, quiet Midwestern town, unremarkable save for one fact: when the local teenagers reach a certain age, they run wild. When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she is surprised that she...

Published: 2015

Those Above by Daniel Polansky (The Empty Throne #1)

They enslaved humanity three thousand years ago. Tall, strong, perfect, superhuman and near immortal they rule from their glittering palaces in the eternal city in the centre of the world. They are...

Published: 2015

Daughter of Blood by Helen Lowe (Wall of Night: Book 3)

Malian and Kalan are coming home, but already it may be too late. The Wall of Night, dangerously weakened by civil war among the Derai families that garrison it, is on the verge of failing. Everywh...

Published: 2015

Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft (The Books of Babel #2)

I am absolutely besotted with this wondrous story. It is utterly enchanting and I cannot recommend this series higher! It has become one of my all-time favorites!...

Published: 2015

Beyond Redemption by Michael R Fletcher (Manifest Delusions #1)

If you’re looking for the epitome of grimdark fantasy, look no further. Fletcher is a brilliant writer and this book blew me away. Layer by layer, page by page, this story will crawl und...

Published: 2015

The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French (The Lot Lands #1)

Jonathan French's The Grey Bastards is an emotional, exciting, and unique story told from the viewpoint of half-orcs, living in the badlands with their fellow 'hoof' members, defen...

Published: 2015

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guaca...

Published: 2015