It took a little longer than planned, but I’ve now read The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss’ follow up to The Name of the Wind. From my previous blog entry you’ll know that I thought very highly of the first book, for a little while I worried that this book might turn out to be…
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Picture the scene… thousands of fans scream at the top of their lungs as their favourite band strolls onto the stage, the cheering continues as the band loosen up. The axeman casually taps his fingers on the neck of his prized possession, the frontman struts around whipping the crowd into an expectant frenzy and the…
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Children of Blood and Bone is Tomi Adeyemi’s debut novel, released earlier this year. It’s kind of a big deal, critically lauded, sequel in the pipeline, huge film rights deal, etcetera, etcetera. A lot of the praise I’ve seen relates to its use of West African mythology and the manner in which it handles difficult…
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Since starting this website, I’ve navigated the pages of four books, I’ve enjoyed each of them and I’m now worrying that I’m only writing positive reviews. This is unfortunate as I’m looking forward to writing a coruscating take down of a mediocre novel. Instead I’ve had to direct my ire at sycophantic prize giving’s and…
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I’ve started writing this twice and it’s morphed into other blog entries about alternative topics, both related obliquely but not directly to my enjoyment of this book, both became too long, and both had more to do with other topics and less to do with The Name of the Wind. So before I get distracted…
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Where Joe Abercrombie is concerned, it seems that I may have been a little late to the party. I also snuck over the back fence, by reading his later trilogy first. Rather than reading The First Law Trilogy when it hit the shelves in 2006 (a full 6 years before the Shattered Sea Trilogy first…
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