I found a copy of ‘The Crooked Sixpence’ loitering on the shelf a few weeks ago, despite that fact that Tomeopathy Jr. had read it previously, and hadn’t provided a glowing recommendation (to be fair a scathing dismissal of all things Uncommon was also not sitting in my in tray (Tomeopathy Jr. can generally be…
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One of Tomeopathy’s belated New Year commitments was to read and report on more independently published fantasy, to that end I recently picked up the first book in ‘Brian Helsing: The World’s Unlikeliest Vampire Killer: Mission #1: Just Try Not to Die’ by Gareth K Pengelly, an urban-ish, Cornwall set, supernatural fantasy series. Hands up…
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A couple of weeks ago I waxed lyrical about the Brackenford Cycle series, the catalyst for that outpouring of love was the release of book number four in the series, Grindhelm’s Key. Tomeopathy always worries about the release of a new book in a cherished series, what if it doesn’t live up to the standards…
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That’s it, the first epic series of the year is now read and done. I’m experiencing a feeling of mild bereavement that I won’t be spending my evenings in the company of the characters from Shadowmarch any longer. As I said in a recent post it’s been quite a while since I got my teeth…
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I was pleasantly surprised last week when I logged into Amazon and it informed me that there was a new book I might like, usually these recommendations are gloriously wild of the mark, so it made a nice change that I was actually informed of something I was definitely interested in. That something was Grindhelm’s…
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I do like to start the year off with a properly epic series, it’s something of a Tomeopathy tradition, the roots of which can be found in the cold weather, lack of sunlight, shortness of funds and the exuberant use of Christmas book tokens. You may have noticed from the homepage that Tomeopathy is currently…
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If the author can continue in the same vein as the second half of this book, then I may well have found a worthy new diversion to some of the more serious offerings out there.
I’ve been sat on quite a few of Brandon Sanderson’s books for a while now (I added this particular book to my library during December 2018, But The Final Empire: Mistborn 1, has been sat there since December 2016), I can’t really explain why I haven’t read any of them until now. For the most…
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I’ve heard this book described as Harry Potter for grown-ups, if you want a simple storyboard level analogy that lots of people can relate to, then it would be appropriate: College age student is informed that they have magical powers and is whisked into a hidden world within our world, complete with magical boarding school,…
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I was inspired to try this novel on the back of the recent film adaptation, not that I went to see the film you understand, I just observed some posters. Anyway I figured that if the gentleman who brought The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit to the cinema had decided that the source…
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