“Any fool can see what’s there. You need to see what is not there.” So what’s the book about? Great intrigues take place in secret in the kingdom and the reigning emperor is treacherously murdered. All the responsibility now rests on the shoulders of his two sons, Kaden and Valyn, and on the shoulders of…
Tag: Heart-Wrenching
We Lie with Death – Devin Madson
The Reborn Empire 2 “When you’ve lived out of the world as long as I have you realize how foolish such things as titles and gold are. You begin to measure wealth in knowledge and respect instead.” So what’s the book about? In Kisia’s conquered north, a new empire is born, the Empire of Levanti….
The House in the Cerulean Sea – T. J. Klune
“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…
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…
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 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 Poppy War – R.F. Kuang
The Poppy War Series – Book 1 “I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.” So what’s the book about? As a war orphan, young Rin is at the mercy of her opium-smuggling foster parents and has only one…
The Reading Stray 