Interesting Books
City
of Scars by Steven Montano, review
at Fantasy
Book Critic
It’s
been three decades since the Blood Queen led her legions on a brutal campaign
of conquest and destruction, and the Empires are still struggling to rebuild.
Now, in the distant aftermath of the war, the real battle is about to begin.
Haunted
by the crimes of his past, fallen knight Azander Dane ekes out a mercenary
existence as he drifts from one city to the next. His latest job is to hunt
down Ijanna Taivorkan, a powerful outlaw witch desperate to escape her destiny.
Dane and Ijanna find themselves in Ebonmark, the City of Scars,
where deadly crime guilds and shadowy agents of the White Dragon Empire prepare
for a brutal confrontation. Pursued by apocalypse cults, mad alchemists, exiled
giants and werewolf gangs, Dane and Ijanna soon learn a deadly lesson – in
Ebonmark, only the cruelest and most cunning can survive.
The
Thousand Names by Django Wexler,
reviews at Bookworm
Blues & Fantasy
Literature
Enter
an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of
steel—but where the real battle is against a subtle and sinister magic....
Captain
Marcus d’Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire’s colonial garrisons,
was resigned to serving out his days in a sleepy, remote outpost. But that was
before a rebellion upended his life. And once the powder smoke settled, he was
left in charge of a demoralized force clinging tenuously to a small fortress at
the edge of the desert.
To flee
from her past, Winter Ihernglass masqueraded as a man and enlisted as a ranker
in the Vordanai Colonials, hoping only to avoid notice. But when chance sees
her promoted to command, she must win the hearts of her men and lead them into
battle against impossible odds.
The fates of both these soldiers and all the men they lead
depend on the newly arrived Colonel Janus bet Vhalnich, who has been sent by
the ailing king to restore order. His military genius seems to know no bounds,
and under his command, Marcus and Winter can feel the tide turning. But their
allegiance will be tested as they begin to suspect that the enigmatic Janus’s
ambitions extend beyond the battlefield and into the realm of the
supernatural—a realm with the power to ignite a meteoric rise, reshape the
known world, and change the lives of everyone in its path.
The
World of the End by Ofir Touche Gafla,
review at Bookworm
Blues
As an
epilogist, Ben Mendelssohn appreciates an unexpected ending. But when that
finale is the untimely demise of his beloved wife in a bizarre accident, Ben is
incapable of coping. Marian was more than his life partner; she was
the fiber that holds together all that he is, and Ben is willing to end his own
life and enter the unknown beyond if it means any chance of getting her back.
One
bullet to the brain later, Ben is in the Other World, where he discovers a vast
and curiously material existence utterly unlike anything he could have
imagined, and where the deceased from every age live an eternal second life.
There Ben finds everyone from his grandparents to Marilyn Monroe. But he can’t
find Marian.
Desperate for a reunion, no matter the cost, Ben hires an
unconventional afterlife investigator to track her down. But as evidence mounts
that Marian is actually alive and well and living in Tel Aviv, Ben also
uncovers unexpected truths that will haunt him throughout eternity.
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews:
Jack
Glass by Adam Roberts, review at The
Book Smugglers
The Lives
of Tao by Wesley Chu, review at Fantasy
Faction
The
Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman, review at Fantasy
Faction
Anticipated Books
A
Fantastical Librarian shares her thoughts in the upcoming releases:
Favorite Reads of the Year
2012 Locus Awards Announced
Giveaways
The
Thousand Names by Django Wexler at Fantasy
Book Critic
The
World of the End by Ofir Touche Gafla at Bookworm Blues
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