Category Archives: Other People’s Books
Friday Reads: Red Seas Under Red Skies, by Scott Lynch
Written on May 10, 2013 at 11:25, by Anne
Having left Camorre after the deaths of their fellow Gentleman Bastards at the hands of the Bondsmagi, Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen are running a new scam in the Sinspire, a high-class casino in the city of Tal Verrar. Unfortunately the Bondsmagi haven’t finished with Locke yet, and he and Jean find themselves working—decidedly unwillingly—for Continue Reading »
Book review: Babylon Steel, by Gaie Sebold
Written on November 6, 2012 at 09:02, by Anne
Babylon Steel is the eponymous heroine of Gaie Sebold’s debut fantasy novel, an ex-mercenary turned madam of a moderately up-market brothel. Desperate for an injection of cash to pay for her girls’ expensive tastes, Madam Steel takes on a commission from suave gambling-den owner Darash Fain to locate a missing girl, and unsurprisingly finds herself Continue Reading »
Friday Reads: Before They Are Hanged, by Joe Abercrombie
Written on October 5, 2012 at 10:19, by Anne
About this time last year I reviewed the first volume in Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy, The Blade Itself, having enjoyed it immensely. However with all the other demands on my time since I signed my own book deal, it’s taken me since then to get around to the second volume, Before They Are Hanged. Warning: Continue Reading »
Friday Reads: The Whitefire Crossing, by Courtney Schafer
Written on August 24, 2012 at 13:02, by Anne
Dev is an outrider: a talented mountaineer who helps scout out potential rockslides and avalanches for merchant convoys crossing the Whitefire Mountains. He also has a nice sideline smuggling illegal magical items from the mage city of Ninavel across the border into Alathia. But when he’s asked to smuggle a person across the border—a young Continue Reading »
Friday Reads: Sharps, by K J Parker
Written on August 3, 2012 at 08:26, by Anne
I’ve been meaning to try K J Parker’s work for some time, based on my own love of historical fantasy and the urging of friends whose opinions I respect, so when I heard there would be a standalone novel about a fencing tournament, I immediately resolved to buy it. By happy chance I managed to Continue Reading »
Friday Reads: Casket of Souls, by Lynn Flewelling
Written on July 13, 2012 at 08:45, by Anne
Casket of Souls is the sixth installment in Lynn Flewelling’s long-running Nightrunner series of fantasy novels set in a roughly 17th/18th-century-esque milieu. Whilst recent books have seen protagonists Seregil and Alec travelling widely, Casket of Souls finds them back on familiar territory in the city of Rhiminee, and back to their old ways. Seregil, a very minor nobleman Continue Reading »
Friday Reads: The Emperor’s Knife, by Mazarkis Williams
Written on June 29, 2012 at 10:07, by Anne
Since I’m trying to read more books this year, I’ve decided to take these book reviews out of my weekly schedule (in which posts go out every Tuesday) and post them on an irregular Friday schedule as and when I finish a book. Hopefully that’ll be at least monthly, but it’s likely to vary. The Continue Reading »
Book review: The Spirit Thief, by Rachel Aaron
Written on June 12, 2012 at 17:56, by Anne
Eli Monpress is the greatest and most infamous thief in the world. At least, that’s his ambition. The bigger the theft, the higher the bounty on his wanted poster – and what could be higher profile than stealing a king? Unfortunately the kidnapped king’s absence leaves a power vacuum in the wizard-hating kingdom of Mellinor Continue Reading »
Book Review: The Steel Remains, by Richard Morgan
Written on April 24, 2012 at 08:03, by Anne
Ringil Eskiath, hero of Gallows Gap, is called from retirement when a distant cousin is sold into slavery to cover her husband’s debts. All perfectly legal, but the Eskiath family honour demands that she be rescued, and although Gil’s homosexuality has made him an outcast in polite society, he is the only family member with Continue Reading »
Book review: The White Road, by Lynn Flewelling
Written on March 6, 2012 at 08:32, by Anne
The White Road is the fifth installment in Lynn Flewelling’s Nightrunner series, and concludes the story arc begun in Shadows Return. Having escaped the clutches of Plenimaran alchemist Charis Yakhobin, Alec and Seregil are faced with the problem of what to do about Sebrahn, the child-like alchemical being who can kill as well as heal. The Continue Reading »
