Back in May, Mark blogged about having several extra ARCs of Drakenfeld lying around. He wanted to help out new bloggers, so he sent them to various ones to help get the proverbial ball rolling. Naturally, I was very excited and grateful for the opportunity. The cover immediately caught my attention. It’s elegant, bold, and, next…
Paul Kearney’s The Ten Thousand was actually the first of his work that caught my eye. It’s a modern retelling of the Anabasis, Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon’s first-hand account of the heroism of Greeks in an expedition to help Cyrus the Younger usurp the Persian throne from his brother, Artaxerxes II. I thoroughly enjoyed Kearney’s writing…
