New Releases: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss - pornokitsch. The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance #1) by N.K. Jemisin. I’ve encountered many reviews of The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms, the first volume of N.K.
Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy. Most of them start with the reviewer claiming that they hadn’t expected to like the book but then found out they loved it. The same goes for me: I did not expect much from this book. The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance #2) by N.K. Jemisin. The Broken Kingdoms is the second book in N.
K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy, the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (review here). In the first book, we followed Yeine, a warrior princess summoned to the great city of Sky amidst a fierce political struggle. In this sequel, we learn the aftermath of that struggle as we follow Oree, an artist living in Shadow, a city teeming with godlings. Oree herself is a mortal, blind except for her ability to see the glimmering outlines of gods, godlings, and magic. One day, while discarding her trash, Oree finds a homeless, literally down-in-the-dumps godling and decides that the humane thing to do for one in such sorrow is to take him in. A page-turnerThe main storyline constitutes a mystery: Who is killing godlings, and why?
Review of The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin. The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus #1) by Jonathan Stroud. The Amulet of Samarkand is set in a world where Magicians rule in public, but not by their own arcane power.
All of their power comes from that of the demons they summon (in degree of potency: imp, foliot, djinni, afrit, marid) who they force to carry out their tasks – something that they don’t admit to commoners for fear of rebellion. This novel is set in London and follows two characters: Nathaniel, a talented and ambitious 12 year-old magician, and Bartimaes, the demon that he summons to perform a deadly task. An intriguing and ambitious plotThe plot of this book isn’t all nice and cozy like the Harry Potter series has a tendency to be. Nathaniel doesn’t have any friends, isn’t a secret prophetic master of all demons, and he doesn’t have a wise mentor to help him along. What he does have is a plot for revenge upon someone who humiliated him in public and the ability to summon a powerful demon to carry out that revenge.
Why should you read this book? Peter V Brett, Author. The Warded Man by Peter V Brett. Mankind has ceded the night to the corelings, demons that rise up out of the ground each day at dusk, killing and destroying at will until dawn, when the sun banishes them back to the Core.
As darkness falls, the world’s few surviving humans hide behind magical wards, praying the magic can see them through another night. As years pass, the distances between each tiny village seem longer and longer. It seems nothing can harm the corelings, or bring humanity back together. Born into these isolated hamlets are three children. A Messenger teaches young Arlen that fear, more than the demons, has crippled humanity.
But these three children all have something in common. "The Desert Spear" by Peter Brett (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu and Mihir Wanchoo) "The Desert Spear": "Demons and glyphs, magic and survival, avoid the night at all cost and darker, grittier writing made The Painted Man (UK) aka The Warded Man (US) the debut of Peter Brett and of the series, a big time favorite last year...
", so "The Desert Spear" was a natural book to be included in a high position. FORMAT/CLASSIFICATION: The Desert Spear stands at almost 600 pages divided into four sections and 33 chapters, all named, while there is a prologue featuring some new kinds of demons. The Desert Spear (The Demon War #2) by Peter V. Brett. Brandon Sanderson: The official site. Elantris. Introduction ELANTRIS was Brandon’s first published book.
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Elantris is the debut novel from Ranting Dragon favorite Brandon Sanderson.
Published in 2005, way back before Sanderson took over The Wheel of Time and became (by many people’s estimation) an overnight success, Elantris is a testament to the hard work that preceded his explosion into popular awareness. Elantris is where the publishing career of one of today’s most prominent writers began. The great city of Elantris has fallen into decay; its god-like inhabitants, created from mortals in a transformation called the Shaod, were altered in an unexplainable event known as the Reod. Since the Reod, their magic is gone – they cannot die, nor can their bodies heal. The pain of accumulated injuries and insatiable hunger eventually drives them insane. A stand-alone novelElantris is unusual in that it tells a fully contained story in one volume when a trilogy is usually the minimum for epic fantasy. Creative use of a rigid structureSanderson deliberately adopted a triad structure for his story. Mistborn. Introduction MISTBORN is the name of Brandon’s epic fantasy trilogy.
The first book is technically MISTBORN: THE FINAL EMPIRE, though people just tend to call it MISTBORN or MISTBORN 1. The entire series consists of THE FINAL EMPIRE (2006), THE WELL OF ASCENSION (2007), and THE HERO OF AGES (2008). It’s a hybrid epic fantasy heist story with a focus on political intrigue and powerful action scenes. If you want a more standard review, scroll down to the news media ones. Synopsis I came into this book with two big ideas for the plot. Mistborn: The Alloy of Law Cover & Details Emerge! Patrick Rothfuss - Official Website. Read more reviews.
The Wise Man’s Fear (Kingkiller #2) by Patrick Rothfuss. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss was one of the most critically acclaimed fantasy debuts of our time. The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss. “I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings.
I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.” Today, Kvothe is an innkeeper of a nondescript inn in a nondescript village. God’s War by Kameron Hurley. This is a dual-review. The general format is the same as our regular reviews, except that under each sub-heading, each reviewer gives his or her opinion on that topic. We hope that you’ll enjoy this new way of reviewing! Kameron Hurley’s stellar debut novel follows the bloody life of Nyxnissa, commonly called Nyx, a bel dame (government-funded bounty hunter) trying to survive in a world consumed by a holy war that’s been raging for centuries.
When she’s relieved of her duties for doing black work of her own to earn extra cash for herself, she has to adapt and find a new way of living. To survive, Nyx has created a team of independent bounty-hunters that are willing to take any bounty that allows them to survive another day. Strong CharactersJames – God’s War accomplished what very few fantasy novels are able to do—create believable and in-depth characters. Interview with God’s War author Kameron Hurley. God’s War has been out for a week now. We reviewed it and loved it, and the natural next step was an interview with the author, Kameron Hurley! Luckily for us, she consented, and it was a joy to interview her. We discussed a variety of topics from her feelings on having her book just released, where she says that she “just [can't get her] head around the fact that it’s actually happened, despite photographic evidence that it’s on bookstore shelves” to her near-death experience, where she says she went into a coma after a year of bad health.
Finally, she talks about her plans after the God’s War trilogy, and her idea for a “Bloodtide in space” book. Before we start the interview, I’d like to say a bit about about Kameron Hurley and her book, God’s War. More information on God’s War can be found in both our review, previously linked, and on the God’s War homepage (which is pretty fantastic!). [Ranting Dragon] First off, we hope that our review did your book justice!
Did it make me braver?