Tor Books

Review: We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune

Apr 28, 2026 | 0 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Rodney and Don have been together for more than 40 years. They’ve lived through some wonderful times and endured some terrible ones, but they’ve done it together, their love unwavering and...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Contemporary, Sue's Reviews
TAGGED: character death, established couple, grief/loss, older character, suicide, T.J. Klune, Tor Books

Review: What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed

Apr 8, 2026 | 1 comment

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel John Maraintha serves at the sufferance of his ship’s captain and the captain has decided John will accompany a translator to the surface of the recently colonized planet Scythia. It’s a...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Sue's Reviews
TAGGED: Cameron Reed, gender fluid, Tor Books

Review: Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall

Mar 10, 2026 | 1 comment

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Normally, we start our reviews with a brief blurb about the book we’re reviewing, but I’m going to skip that this time. Because if you’ve read Moby Dick, then you know what Hell’s Heart is...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Sue's Reviews
TAGGED: Alexis Hall, retelling, space opera, Tor Books

Review: When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee

Oct 22, 2025 | 0 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel 1970s Singapore is a world divided. One face is a city of progress, with high rise buildings, bustling shop fronts, and playgrounds and parks for happy, smiling children. The other is a...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Historical, Urban Fantasy
TAGGED: BIPOC, magic, mystery, sex worker, slow burn, thriller, Tor Books, Wen-yi Lee

Review: The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez

Sep 11, 2025 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel In the past five years, the forest surrounding Malka’s Yahadi village has become rotten and harbors a monster they call the Rayga, which kills girls who wander near at night. The forest...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Historical, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: anti-semitism, bigotry, BIPOC, death, golem, gore, grief/loss, Jewish, Maddie Martinez, magic, monsters, murder, Tor Books, torture, violence

Review: Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

Apr 30, 2025 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Given all of the misery and misfortune Shell has dealt with lately — losing her job, calling off her engagement, having to move back in with her family in Dublin — she knows it would take a...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Nishan's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: bisexual, bisexual protagonist, horror, Sarah Maria Griffin, Tor Books

Review: Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman

Apr 15, 2025 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel In the far off future, an artist named Etoine sits in prison writing a memoir to record the events that put him there. The memoir also becomes the chronicle of how Etoine fell in love with...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Nishan's Reviews
TAGGED: artist, fictional memoir, Isaac Fellman, post-apocalyptic, Tor Books, transgender

Review: Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

Oct 10, 2024 | 1 comment

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Mattinesh Jay runs his family’s well respected wool business. The Jay House is generations old, but they have recently come into financial troubles after a series of setbacks. The only...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Fantasy, Historical, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: enemies to lovers, Freya Marske, opposites attract, Tor Books

Review: We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune

Review: What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed

Review: Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall

Review: When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee

Review: The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez

Review: Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin

Review: Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman

Review: Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

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