“Hearts were easier to read than books. Glamour wasn’t that much more than making sure folk saw the thing they already had plans to see. And making fools of foolish folk was hardly cunning grammarie. But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen…
Category: Novella
The Kraken’s Tooth – Anthony Ryan
The Seven Swords 2 “I have been wielded by heroes of legend and villains of infamy. By the worst scum and the most noble spirit. And in all that time you know what I learned, my liege? There was no meaning in any of it, no purpose that counted for more than shit in the…
A Pilgrimage of Swords – Anthony Ryan
The Seven Swords 1 “The human consort of the Absolved, ” Book explained. “Said to be the most perfect man ever to grace the earth. The Absolved was smitten at the first glance they shared, as too was Thandril. It’s said their love endured for more than a century, the youth kept youthful by the…
The Emperor’s Soul – Brandon Sanderson
“A person was like a dense forest thicket, overgrown with a twisting mess of vines, weeds, shrubs, saplings, and flowers. No person was one single emotion; no person had only one desire. They had many, and usually those desires conflicted with one another like two rosebushes fighting for the same patch of ground.” So what’s…
The Reading Stray 