Bill Capossere

1 month ago | fantasyliterature.com | Marion Deeds |Bill Capossere |Genevieve Valentine

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve ValentineHere is how you read Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti:You open the book, and the first paragraph reminds you, a little, of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and then a gold and brass hand sprouts from the pages, grabs you by your collar, and drags you headfirst into the book.

Jan 1, 2025 | fantasyliterature.com | Bill Capossere |Benedict Jacka

An Instruction in Shadow by Benedict JackaAn Instruction in Shadow is Benedict Jacka’s follow up to An Inheritance of Magic, his tale of modern-day magic and family intrigue set in London. The main character remains likably engaging, the magic intriguing, the family history labyrinthine, and if the story doesn’t perhaps progress quite as much as one would prefer, it all results in a smoothly enjoyable read.

Jan 1, 2025 | fantasyliterature.com | Bill Capossere |Pat Barker

The Voyage Home by Pat BarkerAmongst the flood of Greek myth retellings over the past number few years, three authors have stood out to me. Two are Madeline Miller and Claire North, the first for her fantastic Circe (not to mention the brilliant The Song of Achilles from a decade earlier) and the second for her excellent and just-concluded SONGS OF PENELOPE trilogy.

Nov 4, 2024 | fantasyliterature.com | Bill Capossere

The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star by Pierre SokolskyIn The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star, Pierre Sokolsky does a nice job in covering the history of solar mechanics and exploration, concisely and clearly explaining things in his own language but also, in one of my favorite aspects of the book, offering up a number of lengthy passages from his source material, letting us hear those early thinkers in their own words.

Nov 4, 2024 | fantasyliterature.com | Bill Capossere |Tad Williams

The Navigator’s Children by Tad WilliamsA long, long time ago in a world far, far away (otherwise known as 1988), a younger me picked a heavy (like really heavy) book titled The Dragonbone Chair off the shelf in the bookstore. If you had told that younger, thinner, more-haired me that I’d still be reading about those characters almost 40 years later in 2024, I would have laughed at the absurdity.