Just finished a B&N return/exchange haul. In addition to Blood Over Bright Haven from @theagentcoma, for Christmas I got Sanderson’s Tailored Realities, Mark Latham’s The Last Vigilant, MA Carey’s Once Was Willem, and Annabel Campbell’s The Outcast Mage. Plenty of new epic fantasy, most of it super medieval and in my wheelhouse. Feeling very excited. Oh, I also got The Hero of Ages leatherbound and Pavić’s Dictionary of the Khazars. Stoked for both of them.
I've heard as much but sometimes that's what I need. He's doing a book tour and coming to Dallas in March so I'm thinking, 'cool, I guess I should read his books by then' but now I have no choice:
I was actually convinced to read his books after going to a dragons panel at Dragonsteel Nexus with him and Christopher Paolini and told him as much when I saw him at the con the next day and he was stoked. Seems like a cool guy.
I like Cahill. But his scope creep is kinda insane. Still need to find one of the novellas to read, I think.
Never heard that term before. Are you talking about the expanding of POV characters and lore from book 1 to 3?
Yeah. There's simply no reason the first audiobook should be 10 hours and the most recent 55 hours (and not just because half of that last book could've been edited out).
You're being sworn into office. What book are you placing your hand on while you're sworn in? I'm asking for a signed first edition Lord of the Rings.
It’s gotta be either that, or a copy of the Necronomicon bound in the skin of the mad Arab himself, depending on what kind of public official I plan to be.
I was in a mail-order book club as a kid where they sent you a certain number of hardcover books for a flat fee (if I remember correctly), but the minor catch was that the hardcover books were slightly smaller than normal hardcover books. Not super small like a paperback, but a little bit smaller than other hardcovers. The first book that I received thru that club was Wizard's First Rule, and that was the cover art it came with. I've never seen it again with that artwork until your picture here. I love that artwork so much - it was 100% the reason why I got that book in the first place. I never finished the rest of the series. I'm not even sure I read the second book, but I'll always have a huge soft spot for this book, even if the bad guy's name is Darken and his father's name is Penis.
Massive haul today. All 1st/1st I found in a used place I checked out for the first time. Guy told me they tend to get great stuff because they give cash for books instead of store credit. Looks like GGK is gonna move up the TBR.
I’ve recently read the two Shadow Of The Leviathan books because when I looked on Reddit and other places what the best recent fantasy books are, they came up constantly. I think I might be out of touch with the fandom at this point. These books are just fine. It’s funny because the best and most intriguing thing about this world that gets introduced in the first book (Leviathans, hence the name of the series) is just not present in the second book.
I'm sorry you weren't huge on these books. I absolutely loved them. I have no inside or industry knowledge of this, and I can't find it confirmed anywhere, but looking at the cover and what's written on the title page of the first book, it looked to me like it was planned to be a trilogy of books called Shadow of the Leviathan, but then when you look at the second book, it isn't referred to as 'Book 2 of Shadow of the Leviathan trilogy' and is instead referred to as 'An Ana and Din Mystery', almost as if it's now going to be a longer form series where they do mysteries and not just a straight up trilogy. This is just a theory I have. My wife read them both and told me I'm overthinking it and they are just book 1 & 2 of a trilogy.
Robert Jackson Bennett wrote one of my all time favorite series ever, The Divine Cities trilogy, but then I could not get into his follow up series The Founders trilogy despite multiple attempts with both the book and the audiobook.