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Review – Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding

Retribution Falls is one rollercoaster ride of a book. There are some books that have one or two lines that make me smile due to their humor, but there were several in Retribution Falls that made me genuinely laugh out loud. I laugh a lot in life, but something needs to be truly funny for…

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Review – The Thousand Names by Django Wexler

Django Wexler’s flintlock fantasy The Thousand Names has been taking the summer of 2013 by storm. I’ve always thought there was a distinct lack of flintlock fantasy in the genre. This summer has provided quite a few thus far, including Brian McClellan’s Promise of Blood, which I’ve yet to read but heard great things about. If…

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Review – The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham

 The Dragon’s Path, first in Daniel Abraham’s The Dagger and the Coin quintet, was an interesting read for me. I hadn’t read the Long Prince Quartet, so I  was new to his writing style. Being a fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, I read reviews stating that The Dagger and the Coin series was similar in that…

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Review and Goodreads Giveaway – City of Scars by Steven Montano

“It’s been three decades since the Blood Queen led her legions on a brutal campaign of conquest and destruction, and the Empires are still struggling to rebuild. Now, in the distant aftermath of the war, the real battle is about to begin.Haunted by the crimes of his past, fallen knight Azander Dane ekes out a…

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Review – Killer of Men by Christian Cameron

“Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a…

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