“Memory is a double-edged sword, Uthas. It can keep you strong through dark times, but it can also cripple you, keep you locked in a moment that no longer exists.” What is the Book about? Where the Forsaken Lands stretch, blood once stained the world red. Where ancient ruins now stand, humans once vanquished giants….
Tag: Old School Fantasy
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb (The Farseer Trilogy #1)
“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.” What is the Book about? He serves his king until death – a masterpiece full of magic, suspense, and emotions. Fitz is a bastard, the son of a prince and a peasant girl. Yet, at a young age, the king takes…
Shadowmarch – Tad Williams (Shadowmarch #1)
“Most dreadful of all, as she lay with her shivering children on the cold ground just outside the murdered town, she could hear the destroyers of everything she had, and they were singing. Their voices were painfully lovely. Darkness claimed her then, but only for a while.” High Fantasy ✓ Slow Storytelling ✓ Strong Emotions…
Empire of Grass – Tad Williams (The Last King of Osten Ard #2)
“Saying peace never lasts, or that an empire must grow or die, is like saying that only birth and death matter,” she told him. “Most of life is not part of either, but what comes between–the simple hard work of living.” So what’s the book about? Danger lurks on all sides in Osten Ard. King…
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…
The Reading Stray 