pickKept distracting myself with other things this past week which meant it took a little while to read this book…Even more entertaining than I expected, I enjoyed this story about Gabriel de Leon, the last of the silversaints, who is forced to tell his story to a jailer desperate to pry some very important information from him. Lots of action (and death), vampires, betrayal, adventure, love, danger—as I said, an entertaining fast paced story.
pickStandalone Dark Fantasy with heavy topics - colonialism, exploitation, racism, misogyny, religion.
The world-building, including the magic system, was excellent.
Two MCs who clash and get along, growing through their time together.
pickWhen you read a book by an author that can produce a story that grips you for the beginning to its end and makes you cheer for both the good and bad characters it‘s far superior to other books… there are very few authors that I enjoy, contemplate, and compare to my top 5 authors… and then move one of my top 5 down to accommodate their books, after reading this and “The Devils” books, this is now a fact. Joe Abercrombie has bumped up #5
These two paragraphs brilliantly written adding to Glokta‘s truisms .. 📖
pickI enjoyed this! Set 20 years after the big battle against a big evil, the book series you would usually read, this looks at how the heroes are holding things together and, spoiler alert, they aren‘t. Evil is moving again, but they are 20 years older & trying to figure out what to do in a “fight” without the clear purpose of their past. You get flashbacks to understand the main characters and also The Nine, who are the original group of heroes.
Why didn‘t anyone tell me that Glokta was in other books besides the first three. I‘m starting to get into “A Little Hatred” and I‘m loving the characters and the connection to the other three books I just finished
pickI really liked this stand alone dark fantasy! It‘s pretty heavy, with themes of colonialism and oppression and exploitation, among other things. Definitely see content warnings.
There‘s a well defined magic system and two main characters I really cared about. There were several reveals I wasn‘t expecting, and the end was a surprise.
“His story had not begun in a tavern, but Alf had ended up in one anyway.”
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