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Twelve Dancing Princesses (illustrated by Anna Luraschi)
<SPOILER WARNING – if you haven’t read this book then know that I give away a lot of the plot here> I have just read 'Twelve Dancing...

The Phoenix Conspiracy by Richard L Sanders
I didn’t pay a penny for this book, not one single cent, rupee or any other small denomination of currency. It was free. The advent of...

Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
With this book, Jorg’s story is complete, the Broken Empire is still broken but it there is hope. I’ll start as I would normally end,...

Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
Take the French Revolution. Add the industrial revolution and a great heaping of magic. Bake at 545 pages for as long as it takes you to...

The Traitors Blade by Sebastien de Castell
The setting for this novel is interesting; the King has be deposed and a new ruling elite is taking charge except that royalty, the Dukes...

Review: The Heresy Within
Rob Hayes has created in this book, the first of a trilogy, an intriguing world that is as grim and dark as any the current ‘master’ of...

Prince of Fools - Mark Lawrence
So, how do you follow Jorg? Very carefully and in the certain knowledge that, should circumstances arise, he will kill you. However, in...

Jing Ke - A Tale from the Stone Road
Jing Ke “Your tea, Shifu.” Haung handed the small, delicate porcelain cup to the old man sat across from him. They both tapped the table...

Do we, as readers, prefer the solid, comfortable, fantasy ground of middle age Europe to other setti
I posed the title question on Fantasy-Faction (on my own Stone Road thread) and the insightful C. Hill replied thus: "I think depth is...

What do you look for in a hero?
(My answer on Fantasy-Faction.com) Showing my age: Raistlin and/or Garion. Raistlin for, as I suspect many people would say, his...



