Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsOn one hand, this somewhat typical fare: Moon is the ultimate outsider; his family killed while he was young, and his entire life has been spent bouncing from settlement to settlement trying, and failing to fit in. After having given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is among the very best epic fantasy stories out there. I wouldn’t have ever thought there’d be a sequel, but now that there is, a two-hundred page follow-on to the original does seem like a sensible[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s an odd enough title for a book, but it certainly fits. It’s apparently based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen (I’m completely unknowledgeable about that), though my thoughts ran to Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, which is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Naomi Novik’s latest novel is currently my favorite by her. It’s very strong, well written, and avoids the minor issues I had with Uprooted. There is a bit as it gets going where the number of viewpoint characters increase from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Roberson’s latest Tiger & Del novel keeps up the high quality of the series. The pair are finally settled down and going off into ever-after land, when Neesha decides he wants more adventure. This doesn’t turn it into Neesha’s story.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mostly know Ursula for Digger, and other less kid-oriented books. Those all show a wonderful sense of humor that would find itself at home in a younger audience, and so it is here. A definite advantage of her younger[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was something of a random pick up in the middle the Estcarp books. It stands well on it own, though there is a lot that follows from the previous few books. However, a three-page summary of the major events[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The good news is that this is another good book in Freeman’s Borderlands series. Even better, we see more of Suiden this time. The bad news is that it’s the last. This is especially bad because there are unresolved threads.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Covenants, the first book of Lorna Freeman’s Borderlands series circles around and comes to an end pretty much where it started. The King’s Own picks up very shortly after this, and has the further adventures of Rabbit after the Border[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This isn’t quite a sequel to Sing the Four Quarters, since the locale and characters change. However, the world is the same, and the magic is the same, though it ends up elaborated a bit more here. It does take[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…