The subtitle of my review for In the Shadow of Lightning, by Brian McClellan, is less a baseball reference and more of an allusion to the famous saying about lightning striking twice. Because this is the third time I have read this story. Reviewing this first book of McClellan’s new series is very tricky because…
Continue reading ➞ In The Shadow Of Lightning – Three Strikes
Our best of 2019 list is out, but that doesn’t mean 2019 is done giving us fantastic reads. We always roll December releases over into the next year in order to get the list out, and it can sometimes result in the powerful end-of-year releases not getting the accolades they deserve until the following year.…
Continue reading ➞ Blood Of Empire – An Empirically Sanguine End To The Year
This week I have returned to Brian McClellan's series, Gods of Blood and Powder, to talk about the soon to be released second book - Wrath of Empire. The numeration of the series is starting to feel a little confusing, as this is the second book in the second series and the fifth book overall.…
Continue reading ➞ Wrath of Empire – The Best Kind Of Identity Crisis
We have something called the “20% rule” here at The Quill to Live. We believe that a sizable number of authors simply don’t know how to start a book. It is the single most common issue we find with novels; authors have great ideas and prose but just don’t know how to get the story…
The time has come for ‘Best of 2015’ threads and to reflect on all the wonderful books I enjoyed over the year. This piece will address my top 10 reads published in 2015, but is missing some of the amazing older books I read throughout the year. I read roughly 80 books this year, about…
This Review will be both for The Autumn Republic, and The Powder Mage series as a whole. The Autumn Republic is the final installment of the Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan, a military fantasy that primarily follows the stories of three main protagonists; Tamas, Taniel, and Adamat. Tamas is the General of an army…
Continue reading ➞ The Autumn Republic – Putting the ‘Pow’ in Powder Mage
