Review: Dragon Hunters
Dragon HuntersChronicles of the ExileBy Marc Turner Once a year on Dragon Day the fabled Dragon Gate is raised to let a sea dragon pass into the Sabian Sea. There, it will be hunted by the Storm Lords, a fellowship of powerful water-mages who rule an empire called the Storm Isles. Emira Imerle Polivar is […]
Review: To Ride Hell’s Chasm
To Ride Hells ChasmBy Janny Wurts A stand-alone novel – written by Wurts while taking a break from the mammoth Wars of Light and Shadow series – this roller-coaster of intrigue and mystery is not a book you could call a ‘light read’. Set over the period of one week, so much happens in this […]
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Review: Holy Sister
Holy SisterBook of the Ancestor, Book 3By Mark Lawrence They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor’s armies are in retreat. Nona faces […]
Still waters run deep
The Merlai are a seafaring folk. Their ships are the fastest amongst all of the Nine Realms of the Broken Continent. But the Nine Realms, whose mercantile interests they assist, only know a fraction of the true power of the Merlai. Founded in the Age of Chaos, after the Sundering that ended the War of […]
Daughter of the Empire
Daughter of the EmpireEmpire Trilogy Book OneBy Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts Magic and murder engulf the realm of Kelewan. Fierce warlords ignite a bitter blood feud to enslave the empire of Tsuranuanni. While in the opulent Imperial courts, assassins and spy-master plot cunning and devious intrigues against the rightful heir. Now Mara, a […]
Firstborn
FirstbornHose War Book 7By Michelle West Jewel ATerafin has never wanted to be a power. What she truly wants, she built in the streets of the poorer holdings. To protect what she built, to protect what she values above all else, she has accepted that power is necessary. But with power comes responsibility. Jewel has […]
A Plea for Help
“It was the want of immortality that corrupted the Ten and made them Devak’sahrin. And it was the last act of Varos Korin’ad to lock them away for Eternity. But in the Sundering the Atresian Plains have become lost to us. All that is left of our civilization is in ruins, poisonous to the touch […]
Days Spent with Melanie Rawn
The Dragon Prince trilogy (or The Sunrunner Trilogy – check out book 1 here) was one of the first ‘adult’ fantasy series I really lost myself in after #dragonlance and before #wheeloftime . Rawn did a magnificent job with her #worldbuilding , the way she wove her magic system into wider world (I’m not going […]
Bound by Mark Lawrence
BoundA Book of the Ancestor 2.5 (Short Story)By Mark Lawrence This is a 16,000 word short story, primarily featuring Nona, Ara, Kettle, Regol. It should be read between Grey Sister and Holy Sister. Again, I stress SHORT STORY. It really is a short story coming in a 49 pages. But if you enjoy Lawrence’s work […]
