Queen’s Book Asylum’s main SPFBO 10 page, where you’ll find a short heads up about the contest, info about our process, the 30 books assigned to us, and how we divided them – including GR and Amazon links -, our progress in the semi-finals and finals, and updates throughout the competition.
The Sound of Madness Reading Challenge is back for the fourth year! For the oldtimers, welcome back! For the newcomers, I hope you’ll have a lot of fun this year trying to fill out these music-based reading prompts as I had a lot of fun coming up with them.
Once again, I’m setting reading goals for 2024, including reading challenges and a shortened TBR list I’d like to focus on this year.
Timy’s pick this week is Fur Cue by Seether.
It’s time to look back at 2024 and share our favorite books with you! Second up is Jen’s Top 5 Reads of 2024!
Timy reviews WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS, a standalone horror/fantasy novel by Grady Hendrix.
Team Asylum reviews our first SPFBO 10 finalist, BY BLOOD, BY SALT by J.L. Odom. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Jen, Liis, and Tru.
It’s our absolute pleasure to host Tim Hardie today in the Asylum. Tim is an old friend of ours and today we are celebrating with him as he recently released Broken Brotherhood, the last book in The Brotherhood of the Eagle series. Tim in this guest post talks about his journey with The Brotherhood of the Eagle and also the production of the audiobook of Hall of Bones, his SPFBO finalist first book in the series. As a bonus, there is a playlist too!
Bjørn’s pick this week is If Madonna Calls by Junior Vasquez.
Team Asylum reviews our first SPFBO 10 finalist, BY BLOOD, BY SALT by J.L. Odom. Reviews are from Arina, Drew, Jen, Liis, and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our fifth and last SPFBO 10 semi-finalist, BRINGER OF THE SCOURGE by M. Daniel McDowell. Reviews are from Arina, Liis, Jen, and Timy.
Team Asylum reviews our fourth SPFBO 10 semi-finalist, WOLF OF WITHERVALE by Joaquín Baldwin. Reviews are from Jen, Liis, Timy, and Tru.
Team Asylum reviews our third SPFBO 10 semi-finalist, THE STRANGER OF UL DARAK by S.C Eston. Reviews are from Liis, Jen, Timy, and Tru.
Jen reviews DROWN DEEP, the second book in Phil Williams’ military fantasy series, The Blood Scouts.
Bjørn reviews THE UNBEARABLE INSPECTOR OBERLIN, the fifth book in Tammie Painter’s comedic fantasy series, The Cassie Black Trilogy.
Timy reviews SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY, the third book in Alexis Hall’s queer historical romance series, Something Fabulous.
Bjørn reviews THE DARK ELF DYNASTY FILE the first book in Phil Parker’s Fantasy Noir series, The Inside Story of the British Bureau for the Arcane.
Paul and Liis review BEYOND REDEMPTION, book one in Michael R. Fletcher’s grimdark fantasy series Manifest Delusions.
Olivia reviews THE SCHOLAR AND THE LAST FAERIE DOOR, a standalone historical fantasy novel by H.G. Parry.
It’s time to look back at 2024 and share our favorite books with you! Second up is Jen’s Top 5 Reads of 2024!
It’s time to look back at 2024 and share our favorire books with you! First up is Timy’s Top 10 Reads of 2024!
The Sound of Madness Reading Challenge 2025 is here! Can you believe this is the fifth year already?! For the oldtimers, welcome back! For the newcomers, I hope you’ll have a lot of fun this year trying to fill out these music-based reading prompts as I had a lot of fun (and pain, so much pain) coming up with them.
We are done with the year so, it’s time for the last Challenge Check-In for 2024 Q4!
It’s our absolute pleasure to host Tim Hardie today in the Asylum. Tim is an old friend of ours and today we are celebrating with him as he recently released Broken Brotherhood, the last book in The Brotherhood of the Eagle series. Tim in this guest post talks about his journey with The Brotherhood of the Eagle and also the production of the audiobook of Hall of Bones, his SPFBO finalist first book in the series. As a bonus, there is a playlist too!
Today we are honored to help reveal the cover of BE MINE, Lizzy Barber’s upcoming thriller. It’s set to be released on May 13th, 2025 by Datura Books!
Today we are honored to help reveal the cover of Bjørn Larssen’s upcoming second novel in The Ten Worlds series, Land. Which is a grimdark retelling of the discovery of Iceland, and the sequel to Children. It’s set to be released on November 5, 2024. If you like what you see, don’t forget to pre-order or request an ARC!
Today we are honored to help reveal the cover of Nick Kolakowski’s upcoming neo-noir novel, Where the Bones Lie. It’s set to be released on March 11, 2025 by Datura Books!
Sharon Rivest, the author of DECEIT, chose Tales from the Asylum as her SPFBO 9 spotlight, so let’s see how she imagines our home!
Brendan Noble, author of A Dagger in the Winds chose the challenge of What the Hungarian?! for his SPFBO 9 spotlight. Let’s see how he did with it!
Part 4 of the second SPFBO 9 To Be Continued… story, The Illusionist’s Nightmare is written by Mike Rousseau. Time to find out how Ezri’s story ends!
Part 3 of the second SPFBO 9 To Be Continued… story, The Illusionist’s Nightmare is written by Ryan Kirk. Her plan being made, it’s time for Ezri to get to work.
