Well. It was great. Not excellent. I just don't have much to say about it! Which is rather strange for me! I would dispute it being the years stand out debut, there were so many other fantasy debut this year that actually had me brimming with words to spout about them, but I am not sure what to s...
The book was fine. It felt like an entirely different story from book 1. The characters were the same, but I didn't like how the entire story seemed to be based around magic. I don't mind a little Hague now and then but every little twist and turn in the book seemed to have some magic element to ...
A very good sequel to a very good book.The author has a solid writing style which is mixed with some fairly good world-building; nothing exceptional but it has to be pointed out that the focus is largely on the various conflicts, with the narrative rarely pausing to make time for us to explore th...
It was a hundred paces straight down to the courtyards, gardens, and temples of the Dawn Palace, but she didn’t look straight down. Instead, she stared north, eyes wandering over Annur’s roofs of copper and slate and teak shingle. Morning fog off the Broken Bay still filled the streets and alleys...
Tan had said he wanted the cellar deeper, but he hadn’t specified by how much. Kaden took the omission to mean he had a lot of work ahead of him. He had rolled the huge hogsheads of vinegar and weak beer out of the way, stacking them in the far corner, then set to work on the task. The ground was...
Most likely, it stood there when the woods were fields—a marker between properties or just a spot for the cows to graze out of the sun—and it had remained after the farmers left and the fields gave way to forest once again. It seemed a shame, somehow, to cut it down, but it was dying, and besides...