I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Ah, nothing like a bit of Sword & Sorcery to get your day started. To be honest, it’s probably been a while since I read some S&S, but it is a genre I like to read. I came across this in the Goodread’s Sword & […]
I received a free copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review. This in no way impacts my opinions. I read For the Killing of Kings way back in February 2019, and I remember my air of trepidation going into it, as I had read a couple of ho-hum books from Netgalley prior. However, in spite of my concerns […]
I received a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. So here goes: I have to be honest, I hadn’t heard of this one before the author contacted me. Of course, this doesn’t really mean anything as far as the book is concerned. It had good ratings, so I thought I’d give it a blast, and […]
So, who’s heard of portal fantasy? I can’t honestly say I’ve ever read any before this year, and this is my second in a few months, having read and reviewed The New Magic by Joseph Malik a while back. There are similarities that were likely more to do with the sub-genre than anything else, so I’m not going to bother […]
This is not your father (or mother)’s epic fantasy. In fact, this may be as far from epic fantasy as possible. This is more like a poster child for grimdark or sword and sorcery, and it is (mostly) glorious. Life in The Circle is hard. The people live in clans (think Germanic tribes), sometimes warring amongst themselves, but mostly just […]
Another gift from Netgalley (as most of my next four or five reviews will be), and like The Burning Stone, this one has a caveat – this time it’s a sequel. However, unlike Jack Whyte’s latest, I never felt I missed anything by not having read the previous novel. This, as you may or may not know, is one of […]
