Reviews of Fantasy and Science Fiction books
An incredibly cynical end, brilliant though. We start off relatively soon after the events of the second book. West and Dogman are still in the North but they have Bethod on the run. Bayaz, Jezal, Ferro and Logan have newly arrived back to Adua while Glokta is threatening and bribing people as the ailing King …
Continue reading “Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie”
An almost literally pointless book, but still great! Logen, Jezel and Ferro are travelling with Bayaz to the end of the world in search for a legendary item that will help in the fight against the Prophet. Glokta has been sent to hold the city of Dagoska, to hold the city to the last man …
Continue reading “Before they are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie”
I’d forgotten how great this was. We start off on fairly disparate stories. Logen Ninefingers finds himself alone after his companions have been (apparently) killed and receives a message that he should seek out a famous wizard, Bayaz, so he journeys south to find him. Glokta is a torturer with nothing to lose who finds …
Weird in the wonderful way Mieville is, but it was also a bit all over the place. The story starts with the seemingly impossible disappearance of a giant squid specimen from the London natural history museum. Billy is our main protagonist, who was in charge of preserving the specimen and who first discovers that it …
A suitably epic conclusion to both series. We go straight into the action from where we left off at the end of the last book. Drassil has fallen, and our hero protagonists all need to re-group, get over their differences and prepare for the fate of the banished lands. Our POV’s are mostly all the …
What an end but honestly not too sure what happened! For the first time really, this is a direct continuation on from the previous book. You might be able to get away with not reading it but these books are much more closely tied than the previous in the series. The Faceless man has been …
This definitely raised the stakes by a few notches. The book starts with two disparate events that end up changing the game completely. Firstly a girl overdoses and dies in somewhat mysterious circumstances. The second is that Reynard gets in touch with Peter Grant to tell him he has a diary that could point towards …
The Empire strikes back, can’t wait to see how this is going to play out. We start off immediately where we left off at the end of the first book. Drem is fleeing with his new companions from the mine to get back to Dun Seren, while Riv and Bleda are nursing their wounds and …
Different than I imagined but honestly not sure what that was! Ged grows up on a small island but he soon shows signs of magic and gets sent off to train at an academy of magic. While there, through a show of pride, he accidentally unleashes a shadow onto the world that could have major …
Continue reading “A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin”
Great opening to the series, it’s nice to back in the Banished Lands! It’s been over a hundred years since the events of the Faithful and the Fallen. Countries and borders have changed, and the Ben-Elim and Kadoshim are both now abroad in the land. The Ben-Elim have made it their purpose to eradicate all …
Barry's Bloody Books 