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SciFi Book Spot
Science fiction and fantasy reviews from across the City Book Review network, gathered on one page for readers who want the next world, series, or obsession.
From the Editors
SciFi Book Spot pulls together the strongest science fiction and fantasy reviews from the City Book Review network. Every review here is editorial, written to help readers decide what deserves their time.
Featured Reviews
The first three picks are the fastest way in.
Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is a big, smart, and deeply entertaining survival story that keeps its focus on one impossible job: save the Earth before it runs out of time. Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a ship with no memory...
Babel
Babel is a sharp, furious alternate-history fantasy about language, power, and who gets to control both. Robin Swift is pulled into Oxford and into an empire built on translation, then slowly learns that the institution he...
Fourth Wing
Fourth Wing is a fast, high-energy dragon rider fantasy that knows exactly how to keep pages turning. Violet Sorrengail enters Basgiath War College expecting training and gets something closer to a pressure cooker with teeth....
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Iron Flame
Iron Flame doubles down on the academy pressure, the emotional damage, and the dragon-fueled intensity that made the series explode. Violet is more battered here, and that matters. The book spends real time on endurance,...
Nettle & Bone
Nettle & Bone is small in scale and huge in imagination. Kingfisher builds a bleak fairy-tale world, then sends Marra on a rescue mission that feels strange, funny, and grim all at once. The magic is odd, the companions are...
The Ministry of Time
The Ministry of Time mixes time travel, bureaucracy, and slow-burn character tension into something unusually polished. A civil servant is assigned to help one of history’s displaced figures adapt to the present, and the setup...
The Bear and the Nightingale
The Bear and the Nightingale is the kind of fantasy that feels cold on your skin while you are reading it. Arden pulls folktale, winter landscape, and household magic together into a story that feels rooted and eerie at...
Legends & Lattes
Legends & Lattes is cozy fantasy with a very clear mission: lower your shoulders and let the story breathe. Viv, a retired adventurer, opens a coffee shop and discovers that the hard part is not slaying monsters, it is...
The Hurricane Wars
The Hurricane Wars is a sweeping fantasy built on political conflict, elemental power, and a romance that keeps tightening the screws. Guanzon has a big canvas to work with, and she uses it well. The tension between the two leads...
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses is pure gateway fantasy for readers who want fae courts, dangerous bargains, and a heroine who keeps being pulled deeper into trouble. Feyre’s story starts in hardship and then opens into a much larger...
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is a humane, character-driven space novel that values community as much as adventure. The plot moves through a long journey, but the real pleasure is spending time with the crew and...
Assistant to the Villain
Assistant to the Villain leans into workplace comedy, magical chaos, and a very specific kind of romance tension. Evie is trying to survive an absurdly dangerous job, and the joke of the book is that the job keeps getting more dangerous...