Smorgasbord Fantasia

 This week on Waiting on Wednesday - where we feature some of our most awaited SFF titles releasing later this year or even next year - We are looking forward to this book called " A Dowry of Blood " - an epic imaginative and moving re-telling of the Dracula legend, by S T Gibson . A gothic tale, rife with dark romance and horror, this is the POV of one of the brides of Dracula.  A deliciously dark retelling of Dracula, A Dowry of Blood is a saga of obsession, desire and the lengths to which we'll go to protect the ones we love. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things.   Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she...

An expertly crafted satire that works wonders, Nna Than Case Kodu (loosely translated to ' Then, you sue! ') is Ratheesh Balakrishna Pothuval's third outing as a director and he hits the bull's eye with this one. His fantastic writing lends itself to absurd situational laugh-out-loud comedy in almost every other scene of the movie, and no it doesn't get flat out boring or repetitive. Much of this credit goes to Kunchako Bobban as the endearable Rajeevan, a reformed thief, down and out on his luck who is falsely accused of theft from an MLA's house. It leads to hard times for Rajeevan, as that stamp of a 'thief' means that he doesn't get any useful job and even his lover, spurns him and asks him to get out of her house.  The said 'attempt at burglary' happens when Rajeevan is coming back from a late night temple festival but when all we actually get to see, is him jumping over the wall and then being brutally attacked by two house pets of the ...

On Waiting on Wednesday , we featuring some of the most anticipated new releases in Science Fiction, Fantasy and everything in between.  This week, we bring you the hotly anticipated sequel, to the wonderful new space-opera by Kate Elliots Unconquerable Sun - This one's called Furious Heaven. I truly enjoyed the space-opera, the wonderfully balanced narrative that focussed on imperial princess Sun's internal growth and the large-scale space-war and the politicking in play among the Empires across the stars.  Non-stop action, space battles and intrigue abound in the second in a galactic-scale, gender-swapped space opera trilogy inspired by the life of Alexander The Great. The Republic of Chaonia fleets under the joint command of Princess Sun and her formidable mother, Queen-Marshal Eirene, have defeated and driven out an invading fleet of the Phene Empire, although not without heavy losses. But the Empire remains strong and undeterred. While Chaonia scrambles to rebuild its mil...