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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Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan
A brilliant end but it takes a long time to get there. This book took me so long to read that I’ve almost forgotten what actually happened in it. It was great to have Mat’s POV back again, he was missed in the previous instalment. His interactions with Olver and worrying about who’s teaching him… Read more
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The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
A very different book than the first but enjoyable still. Roland in his quest for the Dark Tower needs to draw three individuals according to the prophecy he was given. However a serious injury sets him back before a mysterious door appears on the beach and brings him to Earth to get his first recruit.… Read more
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The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The unnamed Gunslinger is following the Man in Black across the desert, for what reason we don’t know. On the way he meets random strangers that don’t really affect him too much, and that is essentially this book. The name and the reason do become a little clearer but it is still a strange and… Read more
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Shadows Upon Time by Christopher Ruocchio
An epic end to an epic series. We start again with a bit of a time jump, but only a few decades which is relatively short in this series. Hadrian needs to get the Empire back on side to fight the Cielcin threat for good but it’ll be a hard ask with most of the… Read more
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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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