Interesting Books
(Descriptions
from Goodreads)
Quintessence
by David Walton, review at Fantasy
Literature & Far
Beyond Reality
Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection,
sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In
Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach
down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers
to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an
alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he
believes will grant magical powers and immortality. And he has a ship.
River
of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay, review
at Fantasy
Literature
In his
critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and
powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international
bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting
four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers,
bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own way,
to find a new place for women in the world – a world inspired this time by the
glittering, decadent Song Dynasty.
In an empire divided by bitter factions circling an exquisitely
cultured emperor who loves his gardens and his art far more than the burdens of
governing, dramatic events on the northern steppe alter the balance of power in
the world, leading to events no one could have foretold, under the river of
stars.
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews:
Cinder by
Marissa Meyer, review at On Starships
& Dragonwings
Etiquette
& Espionage by Gail Carriger, reviews at Fantasy
Book Critic & The
Ranting Dragon
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi, review at The
Ranting Dragon
Redshirts by John Scalzi, review at A
Dribble of Ink
Scarlet
by Marissa Meyer, review at Tales
of the Marvelous
The Six Gun Tarot by R.S. Belcher, review at Bookworm
Blues
Author Interviews
MaryJanice
Davidson at SF
Signal
Robin
Hobb at Fantasy
Faction
Guy
Gavriel Kay at Fantasy
Cafe & Far
Beyond Reality
David
Walton at Fantasy
Literature & My
Bookish Ways
Giveaways
Quintessence
by David Walton at Fantasy
Literature
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