Results of tag "books"
Enemy of God review
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Enemy of God suffers, ever so slightly, from "second book syndrome". Clearly the second part of a planned three book trilogy, it definitely takes some time to get going. An improvement in some ways on the first book, with more developed characters and plots and schemes finally coming together, it...
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The Winter King review
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I'm a huge fan of historical fiction and history in general, but I have to admit that beyond the broad strokes, I'm pretty unfamiliar with the legend of Arthur. Everyone knows about the Sword in the Stone, the Round Table, and Merlin, but I've never read the "source material" myself. So when I...
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Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter Review
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Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter is Christian Cameron's first novel-length Tom Swan adventure, the former all being serialized novels realized in parts. It loses nothing as it gains length, in fact, Saint Peter might be the strongest entry yet.
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The Song of Achilles Review
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Anyone familiar with Greek mythology knows how this story ends. Patroclus, dead in Achilles' armor at the walls of Troy. Achilles, broken with grief, avenging him and wanting to die, dying. Yet even knowing how the story ends, The Song of Achilles was a surprise and a page-turner: not simply a...
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The Hands of the Emperor Review
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This is a book that shouldn't, by all the rules that govern what makes a book "work", be anywhere near as good as it is. Victoria Goddard has crafted a novel here that goes against every established convention of the genre: there's no war, vanishingly little violence, there's really very little...
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More Thoughts on Hands of the Emperor
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I'm about halfway done this book and still loving it. The characters on display here are some of the most deeply human I've ever read. The Emperor's deepening friendship with Cliopher and the rest of the crew is charming and realistic. None of us are Emperors of entire worlds
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