After a very fantasy heavy start to my reading year, I thought I’d read something a little different, You was the book I chose. I was expecting something along the lines of Ready Player One, superficially there are similarities (it’s about video games d’uh), one chapter is sufficient to divest you of the notion that…
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The Court of Broken Knives is the first book in the Empires of Dust trilogy, it follows three main perspectives. Marith has just joined a group of mercenaries, he has a shadowy past, and is the main-est of the main characters. Thalia has been the high priestess of a religion since childhood, it’s her job…
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At the beginning of the year I set myself the goal of reading as many books as possible, and at least a book a week. A fairly straightforward task, but when you have a predilection for epic fantasy, a vanity project website to maintain, a full time job, children to care for, and hopefully at…
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A few months ago I watched the Michael Jordan/Chicago Bulls documentary series ‘The Last Dance’, this revealed that during his playing career, Michael Jordan had a World class ability to take everything personally and to bear a grudge as long as he needed to, he also had an inability, in the early stages of his…
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In the build up to Christmas I was looking for something to read, I wanted something that had a slightly more optimistic tone, before I immersed myself into a nice dense series in January. Fate stepped in when Crownbreaker, the final book in the Spellslinger series, appeared in a Kindle daily deal. It just so…
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I can’t remember exactly why I bought the Paternus series, it may have been the high placed finish in Mark Lawrence’s SPFBO (Self-Published Fantasy Book Off) in 2016, or the numerous positive reviews, or the cool covers. Whatever it was, I’d had the first book in my TBR pile for a while and I’d been…
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Occasionally, particularly after devouring a long series, I like to treat myself to something a bit more immediate, something that doesn’t require a map, a glossary, or a cast list. A bit of a palate cleanser, if you will, before digesting the next course, variety is the spice of life and all that. There’s a…
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Licanius Trilogy – James Islington Regular readers of this blog will know that I usually like to start the year by reading a chunky epic fantasy series. For obvious reasons, this year I’m feeling the need for the full-blown escapism of a properly epic series more acutely than ever. Having started previous years with Tad…
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I read the first book in the Unhuman series a few years ago now and posted a blog entry on the subject at the time, as I’ve now finished the series I thought I’d repost that blog, revised slightly in light of my thoughts on completion. Wilkie Martin’s Unhuman books are an episodic series set…
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