Barry’s Bloody Books
A wander through the world of speculative fiction where I look at all things fun and fantastical…
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Disquiet Gods by Christopher Ruocchio
Well that took a few turns that I wasn’t expecting. We’re six books in so I don’t really want to get into too many details on plot. There’s another big time jump here, two hundred years, and Hadrian is starting to feel old at this stage. He’s basically checked himself out, given up on the… Read more
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Ashes of Man by Christopher Ruocchio
A slower paced book but still a great read. For the first time between books there is no time jump and we start off exactly where we finished at the end of Kingdoms of Death. Hadrian and Valka are still recovering from what happened but they are inevitably drawn back into the Empire and the… Read more
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Kingdoms of Death by Christopher Ruocchio
That was one of the bleakest books I’ve ever read, still in shock. Hadrian and Valka have been in ‘exile’ for their own safety for almost a hundred years after the events at Berenike. However he is tasked by the Emperor himself to travel as an ambassador to the Lothrian Commonwealth, another human empire, to… Read more
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The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
The plot is good but takes too long to get to it. We’re on book eight of fourteen now so I don’t really want to go into too many details plot wise. It’s a strange structure to this book. We get a few chapters from each main POV which takes up most of the book… Read more
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Waybound by Will Wight
A very satisfying end to a great series. I won’t go into any plot details as this is the last book but let’s just say that it was everything I had hoped for. There was even more progression, epic battles and nice moments between the characters. I’m still shocked at where characters are now compared… Read more
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