“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?” So what’s the…
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The Shadow of the Gods – John Gwynne
The Bloodsworn Saga 1 “No, this is my home”, Orka said, placing her palm over Thorkel’s chest. “You and Breca are my home. Wherever we are together, that is my home to me.” So what’s the book about? Three centuries ago, the gods of the north fought each other in a bloody war, bringing themselves…
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 Crown for Cold Silver – Alex Marshall
The Crimson Empire 1 “Fear is the Sword and Scepter of the Church and the Crown. Fear is the Shackles Upon Your Limbs. Fear is the Blindfold You Wear. Fear is the Poison in Your porridge, making You Sick. Making You Die. The pope Laughs as You Weep. She drinks Your Tears. The queen smacks…
The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski
The Witcher 0.5 “People,” Geralt turned his head, “like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that…
The Girl and the Mountain – Mark Lawrence
The Book of the Ice 2 There had been a great fire and there had been a great flood. Both are forces of nature that sweep clean, that wipe the slate and promise a new beginning. Thurin had been the cause of the fire and of the flood. And yet both had failed to wash…
The Heart of What Was Lost – Tad Williams
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…
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…
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 Reading Stray 