Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Book 3.5 “We survive. But when survival is the only goal, what do the survivors become?” So what’s the book about? Osten Ard is once again at a crossroad. King Simon’s and Duke Isgrimnur’s warriors have succeeded in pushing the Norns back into their stronghold in the mountains. The war seems…
Category: High Fantasy
To Green Angel Tower – Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Book 3 “You said once that your parents were being common folk. It is my thought that at least one of them was not a person at all, but a moth.” So what’s the book about? Children grow up, adults are knighted and knights grow old. The religious texts and mystical…
The Dwarves – Markus Heitz
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue – not in others and certainly not in themselves. So what’s the book about? The Protected Land – here humans, elves and dwarves…
Stone of Farewell – Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Book 2 He was not great; he was, in fact, very small. At the same moment, though, he was important, just as any point of light in a dark sky might be the star that led a mariner to safety, or the star watched by a lonely child during a sleepless…
The Dragonbone Chair – Tad Williams
Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Book 1 “When you were old, did your memories crowd out your other thoughts? Or did you lose them—your childhood, your hated enemies, your friends?” So what’s the book about? A treacherous battle ensues between the sons, Elias and Josuah, of the aged King Presbyter John. For he lies dying after…
Kings of the Wyld – Nicholas Eames
“Matrick plied his knives like a parade drummer, his rhythm so fast his enemies didn’t know he’d murdered them until their god asked them if they took milk in their tea” So what’s the book about? Clay lives a quiet and familiar life. No one would suspect that he was once one of the famous…
The Blacktongue Thief – Christopher Buehlman
“What a fabulous kingdom the mind is, and you the emperor of all of it. You can bed the duke’s wife and have the duke strangled in your mind. A crippled man can think himself a dancer, and an idiot can fool himself wise.” So what’s the book about? After a band of highwaymen joined…
The Reading Stray 