It’s impossible for me to be objective about this series. I first read The Eye of the World when I was in high school, I think when I was about 13. It was my first real brush with epic fantasy and…
Fantasy Review: ‘A Game of Thrones’ by George R. R. Martin
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on…
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Like any sensible British reader, I have a Waterstones card. Books = points = more books. I can’t remember how I found it but it turns out that there’s a section on Waterstones’ website here dedicated to everything good and…
Review: ‘The Way of Shadows’ by Brent Weeks
Date finished: 22 October 2011 Rating: 4 stars Format: eBook Source: Bought Genre: Fantasy Published: by Orbit The Synopsis [taken from Waterstones.com]The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the…
Review: ‘The Name of the Wind’ by Patrick Rothfuss
Date finished: 02 July 2011 Rating: 4.5 stars Format: eBook Source: Bought Genre: Epic fantasy Published: by Golancz in June 2008 The Synopsis ‘I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I…