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
Happy publication day Django Wexler, and congrats on finishing The Shadow Campaigns with your fifth and final installment, The Infernal Battalion. To celebrate I thought I would write a review (possibly thanks to the lovely advanced copy I got from netgalley in exchange for an honest review). The Shadow Campaigns has been a very difficult…
Continue reading ➞ The Infernal Battallion – A Devilish Delight
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…
Let me save you some time. The Legion of Flame, by Anthony Ryan, is great. You should absolutely go pick it up and read it (preferably after reading the initial installment The Waking Fire). Great, now we can get into the actual review. Competition has been harsh this summer. As we pass through June and…
Continue reading ➞ The Legion Of Flame – A Battalion Of Hotness
