Interesting Books
Arcanum
by Simon Morden, review at Bookworm
Blues
Rome
was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that
didn't stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and
their wild spell-casting shamans. Having split the walls with their sorcery and
slaughtered the inhabitants with their axes, the victors carved up the empire
into a series of bickering states which were never more than an insult away
from war.
A thousand years later, and Europe has become an almost
civilized place. The rulers of the old Roman palatinates confine their warfare
to the short summer months, trade flourishes along the rivers and roads, and
farming has become less back-breaking, all due to the magic, bestowed by gods,
that infuses daily life.Even the barbarians' gods have been tamed: where once
human sacrifices poured their blood onto the ground, there are parties and
picnics, drinking and singing, fit for decent people and their children.But it
looks like the gods are going to have the last laugh before they slip quietly
into ill-remembered obscurity...
Stolen
Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen,
review at Fangs
For The Fantasy
For
five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the
ruins of Forsaken Mountain. Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to
fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophesy has been spoken of a union
with the power to set the trolls free, and when Cécile de Troyes is kidnapped
and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the
trolls than she could have imagined.
Cécile
has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. Only
the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. She will have to bide her
time, wait for the perfect opportunity.
But
something unexpected happens while she’s waiting – she begins to fall for the
enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. She begins to
make friends. And she begins to see that she may be the only hope for the
half-bloods – part troll, part human creatures who are slaves to the
full-blooded trolls. There is a rebellion brewing. And her prince, Tristan, the
future king, is its secret leader.
As Cécile becomes involved in the intricate political games of
Trollus, she becomes more than a farmer’s daughter. She becomes a princess, the
hope of a people, and a witch with magic powerful enough to change Trollus
forever.
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS Books Page for links to more reviews:
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer, reviews at Graeme’s
SFF & the
Little Red Reviewer
Cress
by Marissa Meyer, review at Vampire
Book Club
The
Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, review at A
Dribble of Ink
Shadow
and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, review at Bookworm
Blues
Throne of Glass by Sara J. Maas, review at Rabid
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