The Book Plank

Feature: Short Fiction Friday It has been a while since I have started a new feature on the site. Some of the recurrent visitor may know that I run a biweekly (p)review forecast wherein I name a few books that I hope to read in the coming two weeks. I also run a Review Round-Up wherein I highlight a few books that I thoroughly enjoyed the last month. When I was biking home last night I was thinking of what I could still do to add new content to the blog and three letters went through my mind SFF which is normally related to Science Fiction Fantasy but what if those letter could be interpreted differently? So I came up with my own SFF, Short Fiction Friday!  With the Short Fiction Friday I will review a short story every Friday, they can come from anthologies, magazines or from the internet. A lot of readers aren't that big of a fan of anthologies but I do enjoy reading short stories especially when authors are able to create the same feeling in 20-50 pages as they can with a fu...

Feature: Cover reveal Prison Planet of the Mah-Lahkt by Hugo Negron Two years ago I gotten into contact with Hugo Negron about his self published first book series: Forging of a Knight and his first book also called Forging of a Knight . The story of a young knight called Qualtan who was coming of age and coming to terms with his biggest wish that of becoming a knight to protect and serve his country. From the first moment Hugo Negron manages to create the spot on setting of a true Epic Fantasy story, showing clearly that there are dark forces present that have their minds set on dangerous deeds. The highly enjoyable epic fantasy setting was achieved by all that was involved from the magic to the races like elves and trolls but also by the narration and writing style, this book is more aimed at the young adults among us and thus the easy but detailed and addictive writings style will make them like this story even more.  In the sequel to Forging of a Knight, Rise of the Slaveke...