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Book Review: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

Cover of P. Djèlí Clark’s The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, featuring a dark-skinned woman wearing dreadlocks, a gold cat mask and black leather gloves, holding a pair of swords crossed across her chest.

In all, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins is a lean and mean novella that goes down like liquid fire and leaps through the reader’s mind like dancing across rooftops in Tal Abisi.

Book Review: Age of Assassins and Blood of Assassins by RJ Barker

RJ Barker’s Wounded Kingdoms Trilogy in its first two volumes, Age of Assassins and Blood of Assassins, combines a straightforward western fantasy world with deeper and more intriguing worldbuilding with a flawed and unusual protagonist to good effect. The two novels, together with the forthcoming third, tell a story of an apprentice assassin who slowly emerges into a figure that helps shape the destiny of an entire kingdom.