Ghouls, Goblins, and Aliens: SFFH Book Club

Welcome to Ghouls, Goblins and Aliens, our new Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror reading group. Your hosts, May and Roxane, will guide you through what’s great, what’s new, and what’s completely underrated, every month until the end of the world (mwhahah, etc. etc). We’ll be starting with Swordheart, the latest novel from T Kingfisher, an author Roxane has been telling May to read for many years gone by. Effortlessly blending horror, fantasy, and a smidge of romance and yearning, Kingfisher builds epic fantasy that is as impressive as it is easily consumable in this incredible fantasy romp.

Please note: This book group is for 18+

Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of a wealthy uncle. Unfortunately, she is also saddled with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest the inheritance away from her.

While locked in her bedroom, Halla inspects the ancient sword that's been collecting dust on the wall since before she moved in. Out of desperation, she unsheathes it and suddenly a man appears. His name is Sarkis, he tells her, and he is an immortal warrior trapped in a prison of enchanted steel.

Sarkis is sworn to protect whoever wields the sword, and for Halla a most unusual wielder he finds himself fending off not grand armies and deadly assassins but instead everything from kindly-seeming bandits to roving inquisitors to her own in-laws. But as Halla and Sarkis grow closer, they overlook the biggest threat of all the sword itself.