In my reviews of Empire in Black and Gold and Dragonfly Falling, I wrote of how hesitant I was beginning the Shadows of the Apt series. Insects are something that had never really made a presence in fantasy. They’re (mostly) disgusting creatures and the thought of reading a series where the orphan boy has been replaced by all…
Several months back I was looking through the catalogue for Gollancz and one book in particular caught my eye, and it was Nathan Hawke’s The Crimson Shield. Notice anything different about the cover when compared to others? The title and author aren’t there – they’re on the binding. And with a cover that beautiful, it’s both…
Brent Weeks, author of the fantastic Night Angel trilogy has revealed the cover for the third in his Lightbringer series, The Broken Eye. I’ve yet to start the latter series, but it looks very interesting with a magic system based around the spectrum of light – despite the corny tagline on the cover. No further info on the…
Daniel Polansky, author of the Low Town aka the Straight Razor Cure series, is an up-and-coming author who I’ve been meaning to read for quite some time now, and another beautiful cover has been added to the collection in the third Low Town book, She Who Waits. There’s not much info on the book yet, but if…
Having never read any of Neil Gaiman’s work before, I jumped on the opportunity to grab The Ocean at the End of the Lane for a decent price at B&N last week. As I said in my review of Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea, it takes serious skill to be able to write a full-fledged story and…
