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…
The Empire of Ashes – Anthony Ryan
Draconis Memoria – Book 3 “Time in war is not given….it’s bought, with blood.” So what’s the book about? Freedom will be paid for with much blood and fire in the war against the White Dragon. Everything is at stake and the sacrifices to be made are very high. The white dragon has risen and…
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 Girl and the Stars – Mark Lawrence
The Book of the Ice 1 “There seemed nothing else to say. Sometimes all your words are the wrong shape and none of them will fit into the silence left when the conversation pauses.” So what’s the book about? In the ice, there are different tribes that fight for their survival day after day, against…
The Six Cities – Cyrus Bales
“As soon as you start establishing governments and systems of money you’re surrendering some of that freedom.” So what’s the book about? Six immortal guardians, so-called Ghosts, have protected and also ruled their own of the six cities for generations. And each of these rules their own city in a very unique way. After a…
The Jasmine Throne – Tasha Suri
“I have always made myself into what was required of me. I have always belonged to someone else. My father, my mother, my husband. And I think I want something- someone- that is mine.” So what’s the book about? Ahiranya is a nation ruled by a fanatical emperor while dealing with a disease called rot….
The Legion of Flame – Anthony Ryan
Draconis Memoria – Book 2 “Money is best thought of as a shared delusion. An unspoken fraudulent compact between the rich and the poor ascribing value to worthless tokens in return for the illusion of societal security.“ So what’s the book about? The White Dragon has awakened – and with it the horror that is…
The Burning God – R.F. Kuang
The Poppy War Series – Book 3 “You don’t fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal.” So what’s the book about? Rin does not give up despite…
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 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 