Blog tours – Everything Is Better With Dragons

Review: The Last Tenant, by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

Description

When the skeletons of a young woman and a baby are uncovered on
a long-abandoned farm in Hvalfjörður, it is clear they were buried
years apart. West Iceland CID begins to investigate the disturbing
discovery, aware that someone has gone to great lengths to keep the
past hidden.

In Akranes, Karitas, a young single mother seeking a new start, settles
in with her four-year-old son and rents a basement flat from an
eccentric landlord. A cautious sense of happiness returns when she
meets the boy next door.

But when news breaks that a local girl has been murdered, Karitas
must decide who she can trust, knowing that one wrong choice could
place her and her child in danger. Detective Elma is drawn into the
case, forced to navigate long-hidden family secrets to understand a
killer’s motive, while struggling to hold together her increasingly
troubled relationship with Sævar.

Blog Tour Calendar: The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror, by Stephen Cox

Cover Reveal: Origin, by Simon Bullock

ORIGIN

Book Two of the Gate Origin Series

Kade Renn and the crew of The Moth have crossed the ancient gate and reached Origin — the dead world at the centre of the network.
They arrive damaged, low on air and cut off from the route behind them. Lira’s breathing system is failing. Vessa is wounded. Nix is carrying heat he cannot shed. And beneath Origin’s ruined surface, old machinery is still responding.

What they find is more dangerous than an abandoned world.
Human field stations. Hand-written warnings. Records from the First Crossing. Evidence that people objected before the first disasters — and that those objections were altered, buried or removed from the history that followed.

The Quiet War did not begin the way the Directorate says it did. Far behind them, Marshal Sorr is tightening a containment net around the damaged route. If it closes, Origin may be sealed again.

Kade does not need to save the galaxy. He needs to keep his sister breathing, keep The Moth alive, and carry enough of the truth home that
no one can bury all of it again.

Some doors weren’t lost.
They were locked.

Book 1 – Driftborn is out now!
Pre-order Origin here

I reviewed Driftborn earlier in the year. I quite liked it. I’m quoted on the back cover for Origin.

Blog tour calendar: The Last Tenant, by Eva Bjorg AEgisdottir

Review: The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects, by Dr Carol Cooper

Description

Discover the fascinating history of medicine, from its primitive beginnings to the life-saving technologies of today. Now in paperback!

In The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects, Dr Carol Cooper takes readers on an engaging, humorous, and sometimes gruesome journey through the 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages.

Over the years, with increasingly more knowledge about health and disease, the ways in which doctors engage with sickness have evolved, and so have the tools used to treat patients.

Review: Knit One, Heist One, by Donna Moore

Description

An outrageous blend of cosy crime and biting social satire for fans of Richard Osman, Mick Herron, and Marina Lewycka.

Janus Lodge isn’t your typical retirement community. Sylvia Abercrombie and her knitting-obsessed gang of octogenarians are feisty, foul- mouthed, and fiercely protective of their home. So when a shady developer plots to evict them and build a ‘gentlemen’s club’, they hatch an audacious plan to save their sanctuary – by starting a secret knitwear empire with a scandalous twist. As sales skyrocket, secrets unravel, and Sylvia’s ex-husband lurks in the shadows, the gang must pull off the ultimate heist to protect their beloved Lodge.

Hilarious and heartfelt, Knit One, Heist One is a riotous romp proving that age is no barrier to action.

Blog Tour Calendar: Knit One, Heist One, by Donna Moore

Grimdark Magazine Novella Cover Reveal: The Anguished Earth, by Richard Swan

Another prequal from the Empire of the Wolf! I’m very much looking forward to this novella and adding a hardback edition to my collection, eventually. Waiting on the ARC at the moment.

Book Description

It is winter in the Empire of the Wolf, and the town of Eisbrück burns with plague.

Whilst physicians struggle to contain the pox, the atmosphere thickens with recrimination and rumour: talk of inauspicious constellations, and a demonic witch filling the streets with bodies and black magick. Amongst the chaos, Sir Konrad Vonvalt must recover a dangerous fugitive—a child murderer who has escaped from Blackmarsh Insane Asylum.

But with winter’s bite closing and plague spreading like wildfire, finding the killer may be the least of his problems…

And now, the cover…

Review: The Driftborn, by Simon Bullock

Genre: Space Opera
Age Category: Adult
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: July 28, 2026 (digital edition) May 26, 2026 (hardcover edition)

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252725186-the-driftborn
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ff1dc076-433f-409f-9cbb-b3857e9998c8
Amazon: https://a.co/d/0aZs34GH (Canada) https://a.co/d/0iyRG1df (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/04mwepeF (UK)

Blurb

A forgotten wreck. A forbidden map. A gate that should never have been opened. On the salvage moon of Veyra’s Fall, Kade Renn only wants one thing: a working air filter for his sick sister, Lira.

Instead, he finds a buried courier ship older than the official history books. Inside it is a dying Driftborn pilot, a forbidden star map, and a message from Kade’s mother, Elian, who supposedly died nine years ago.
The Directorate says the gates saved civilisation. It says the Driftborn are criminals, free-route smugglers and a threat to every recognised human world.

The Directorate is lying.

Forced to flee with Lira, their strange scrap-mech Nix, and a half-illegal ship called The Moth, Kade is pulled into a hidden war over the true origin of the gates. The deeper they travel beyond authorised space, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

The first crossing was not what humanity was taught.

The gates were not built by us.

And something has been waiting for us to understand what we woke.
For readers who enjoy grounded space opera, ancient alien mysteries, damaged ships, found family, dry humour and human stakes beneath the scale of the stars.

The Driftborn is a tense, character-driven science fiction novel about control, memory, survival and the danger of mistaking every door for an invitation.

Review: A Fugitive’s History of the Known Universe, by Nadia Afifi

Price: £20.00
Fiction: FICTION / Science Fiction /
Genetic Engineering
Product format: Hardback
iSBN: 978-1-78758-948-3
Pages: 288 pp

Description

Hardcover with sprayed edges. In the sequel to A Rebel’s History of Mars, Azad and his fellow time-traveling historians must contend with the consequences of the dark secrets they’ve exposed…

After exposing the dark origins of his world on the distant planet of Nabatea, Azad is a fugitive, hunted across the galaxy by the fearsome Vitruvian Authorities. But to lead a passive society into revolution, Azad and his crew must enlist the unlikely help of a space pirate with an agenda all her own. Their adventures once again draw them into the past, into the early days of settlement on Nabatea, where a death continues to haunt the fledgling community and a mother must contend with her son’s monstrous vision for their new home.