More than "I liked" and slightly less than "I really liked" but a promising fresh discovery nonetheless. Basically two stories told in parallel, crossing paths once along the way. The protagonists were charmingly flawed, even if a few of them were a bit lightly sketched (guilt-wracked mercenary h...
Book 3 of the Dagger and the Coin series. Keeps getting better. Daniel Abraham's fantasy that takes place in a post-Dragon multi-species world that looks like medieval times. War breaks out and keeps growing with the ministers of the Spider Goddess, who have the ability to instantly tell if som...
This series wraps up with one of the items that has nagged me the entire time. How the actual use of the powers that Abraham created would be and could be used offensively. How from nearly the start that I understood this magic system, I saw that they would be used, and until this fourth book, th...
Wow. It's been awhile since I've felt a series built up to a great pay-off like this. He continues to build a world and characters that feel so real and organic, which of course creates a very believable unpredictability.And the antagonist; so terrifying and yet fragile all at the same time. The ...
Agree with another reviewer. It was unspectacular. I thought that by book 4, an obvious path to a conclusion to the story would begin to crystallize. I will read the next book(s) only because I am now committed to the story. As a rule, I only start trilogies/epics if they are all available. An ex...
"A Shadow in Summer" has been on my to-be-read radar for quite a while now even though I can't quite recall exactly why I put it on the list. But when Jaws Read Too began her Summer of Series program, I looked over at the first installment in the series, sitting on my to be read pile, mocking me ...