Having been caught up with work and schoolwork, I haven’t had as much time to write in-depth reviews, so here are mini-revies of two books that I’ve read recently – Dream London and The Violent Century. Tony Ballantyne’s Dream London jumped out in Solaris’s catalog instantly with its cover. The blurb was also interesting – a London…
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…
I actually read Paul Kearney’s Hawkwood and the Kings back in June, but for some reason, even though I loved it, I didn’t end up writing a full review. The review is actually for the omnibus of the first and second books in his Monarchies of God series and for a good reason. The end of the…
