Science Fiction

Songs of the Dead by Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian review: a layered hidden London, light-and-music magic, and grief that hits hard. Read the strengths, the flaws, and who should pick it up.

An honest, spoiler-free review of The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth. Inside the new Foxes, a tender Four POV, where the pacing stumbles, and whether this alternate Divergent universe is worth the choice.

Read our spoiler-free review of The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden, a lush historical fantasy that reimagines Anne of Brittany's fight between conquest, the throne, and a power older than France itself.

Matt Haig's The Midnight Train follows an ageing bookseller on a ghostly steam-engine ride through his own life. A warm, spoiler-free review of the second Midnight World novel, after The Midnight Library.

Honest, spoiler-free review of Seek the Traitor's Son by Veronica Roth, the first book in The Burning Empire. We unpack the prophecy, the slow-burn romance, and whether the pacing earns its scope.