I just finished this today and I’m sitting here slightly stunned. It’s been a long, long time since I read something so packed with betrayal, violence, and dramatic plot twists which is also written by someone who draws vivid characters, creates a whole new mythology and has an ear for language and rhythm that lifts […]
Andrew Rowe has pulled off something difficult: he’s written a parody filled with gentle humour and which also works as a story in its own right. He takes us inside the kind of world you’ll be familiar with if you’ve ever played Japanese, quest-based, dungeon-raiding Role Playing Games like Dragon Quest or The Legend Of […]
As a debut novel, ‘Kingdomtide’ has a lot to recommend it. It’s bold and confident without being brash or slick. It experiments with form. It’s brave enough to try and deal with the reality that much of the time we don’t understand ourselves well enough to explain why we do what we do, that some […]
My first experience of Joe Abercrombie was when I read ‘Half A King’, the first book in ‘The Shattered Sea’ series. The publisher’s blurb lead me to expect a sort of ‘Game Of Thrones’ without the dragons or the nudity. What I got was something much better, a twisty plot, a complex, crippled main character […]
Too light for me to enjoy enough to read beyond the 25% point
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