Interesting Books
(Descriptions
from Goodreads)
Promise
of Blood by Brian McClellan, reviews
at Fantasy
Book Critic, Far
Beyond Reality & SFF
World
The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it.
It's a bloody business overthrowing a king...
Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt
aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also
provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and
the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the
Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.
It's up to a few...
Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his
few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman
who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police
inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.
But when gods are involved...
Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the
credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant
legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man
believes that sort of thing. But they should...
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS Books Page for links to more reviews:
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord, review at Fantasy
Literature
The
Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams, review at The
Oaken Bookcase
Mage’s
Blood by David Hair, review at A
Dribble of Ink
Scarlet
by Marissa Meyer, review at On
Starships and Dragonwings
Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff, review at Bookish
Written
in Red by Anne Bishop, review at Impressions
. . .
Giveaways
Stormdancer by Jay
Kristoff at Bookish
Author Interviews
Jay
Kristoff at Bookish
Jan DeLima
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those of you who might be interested to know what I look like, you can head
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blog for an only marginally embarrassing photo . . . and a link to her
guest post at Fantasy Cafe.
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