In anticipation of book two in S.T. Gibson’s The Summoner’s Circle coming out in July, I decided to read the series’ prequel novella, Odd Spirits. Book one of the series, Evocation, was fantastic, and I was curious to see the characters before they became entangled in David’s deal with the devil. So let’s take it…
A standalone prequel to The Blacktongue Thief is not what I was expecting, yet here we are. Thief tells the story of a rogue in a wasteland world, making his way through the ruins on a semi-post-apocalyptic adventure. The Daughters' War, by Christopher Buehlman, is about the war that created this wasteland. It is very…
Continue reading ➞ The Daughters’ War – Girls, Goblins, and Giant Birds
Oh boy, oh boy, a new Black Company book. The Quill to Live kinda had a ton of success on a large thought piece on The Black Company, by Glen Cook, so it is a special series to us (which can be found here, and I highly recommend you read our original piece instead if…
*Sorry for the typos in the original article regaurding the book name. Clearly I was editing with too little sleep. Now this is more like it. I am taking this week and the next to review various parts of the Malazan series. This week I am talking about the two most recent prequel books, Dancer’s…
Continue reading ➞ Deadhouse Landing – The Beginning Of The Start
So first off let me apologize to the wonderful people over at Tor. About a billion years ago they send me an advanced copy of Deadhouse Landing, by Ian Esslemont. It is the second book in a three part prequel to The Malazan Book of the Fallen. I was planning on writing a huge mega…
Continue reading ➞ Dancer’s Lament – The Origins Of Greatness
