Best Fantasy of 2025
Including The Devils
Place of birth: Hartlepool
The type of story the author tells is a difficult one for this modern age, not because it deals with current day themes, (although it does do this), but that the idea of 4 kids from Earth having adventures in another, ‘magical’ and more spiritual world sounds a little old fashioned. But Tir is a long way from Narnia.Ryan uses ...
7.0/10
For those of you who don’t know, this is a story about 4 youngsters living in Ireland (but not all are of Irish nationality) who find themselves going through a portal to another world (Tir) in order to solve the mystery of their parents’ deaths. They have met varied strange creatures and new races along the way. The female warrior S...
7.5/10
Fate has brought together four young people from our world into the enchanted world of Tir. Together Kate, Alan, Mark and Mo present a formidable new force for good in this war-ravaged world: they are Hope for the millions of oppressed peoples that live here. The four have been split up, with one of their number kidnapped, one lost and one chang...
8.5/10
For twenty-five years the colossal battle between Megatron and Optimus Prime has captivated Transformers fans around the world. Yet the full story of the conflict between the two most famous Transformers - everything that happened before Optimus and Megatron arrived on planet Earth - has always been a mystery… until now.This is a v...
7.0/10
Young Jimmy Scoggins has a mysterious Uncle likes to visit, one Saturday afternoon Uncle Reuben tells Jimmy about the land of Omni, he gives Jimmy a parcel to take to the Post Office but on the way there imagines himself in Omni and finds that he is actually there. The evil Lord of the Seth is after Jimmy's Magic Parcel and sends his wraith ...
3.0/10
This book tells the story of 4 orphans, Alan, Kate, Mark and Mo, who find each other in the Irish town of Clonmel, but it seems that their coming together may not have been accidental. It is suggested by Alan’s grandfather that the reason they all became orphaned may well have been at the behest of some power with the sole purpose of bring...
8.5/10
I have read Paul Doherty before, when he wrote as P C Doherty. I found his stories quite enjoyable as at the time I was reading a lot of Agatha Christie's work and would also readily watch as Poirot gathered all his suspects together to reveal the real murderer. Another reason why I enjoyed Doherty's books was because of the time in whic...
7.0/10
Including The Devils
Including Hell Bent
Including Babel, Fairy Tale
Including She Who Became the Sun, The God is Not Willing, A Marvellous Light and The Shadow of the Gods
Including The Unspoken Name, Age of Empyre, The Once and Future Witches and The Trouble with Peace
Including A Brightness Long Ago, The Raven Tower, The 10,000 Doors of January and Beneath the Twisted Trees
Including Circe, The Ember Blade, The Fall of Gondolin and The Poppy War
Including The Fall of Arthur, The Stone Sky, Godsgrave and Tarnished City
Including All the Birds in the Sky, Nevernight, Wrath and Fellside
Including The Hollow Boy, Ancillary Mercy, Half the World and Ruin
Including The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Fool's Assassin, Words of Radiance and The Oversight
Including Emperor of Thorns, The Shining Girls, The Republic of Thieves and The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Including Some Kind of Fairy Tale, King of Thorns, The Wind Through the Keyhole and The Killing Moon