The Dragon’s Path – Daniel Abraham

About the Book Summer is the season of war in the Free Cities. Marcus wants to get out before the fighting starts. His hero days are behind him and simple caravan duty is better than getting pressed into service by the local gentry. Even a small war can get you killed. But a captain needs…

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The Unremembered – Peter Orullian

About the Book The gods, makers of worlds, seek to create balance—between matter and energy; and between mortals who strive toward the transcendent, and the natural perils they must tame or overcome. But one of the gods fashions a world filled with hellish creatures far too powerful to allow balance; he is condemned to live…

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Dream of Legends – Stephen Zimmer

About the Book Dream of legends, and soar across the world of Ave… For Janus and the other exiles from a modern world, finding themselves in the fantastical lands of Ave was just the beginning.  The assault upon the Kingdom of Saxany and the tribes of the Five Realms ignites, as the eyes of The…

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Hellhole – Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

About the Book Only the most desperate colonists dare to make a new home on Hellhole. Reeling from a recent asteroid impact, tortured with horrific storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and churning volcanic eruptions, the planet is a dumping ground for undesirables, misfits, and charlatans…but also a haven for dreamers and independent pioneers. Against all odds,…

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Rules of Ascension – David B. Coe

About the Book: The first book in a projected quartet, Rules of Ascension, revolves around a brutal murder and a falsely accused young prince. Tavis, the duke’s nephew, is violent, selfish, and cruel. Under the kingdom’s rules of ascension, Tavis is next in line — after his father — to be king. But when he gets his…

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Tigana – Guy Gavriel Kay

About the Book Drawing on the most powerful mythic archetypes, this master epic of magic, politics, war–and the power of love and hate–is a rich, beautifully written, multidimensional work. The few surviving inhabitants of the destroyed land of Tigana bond together in a secret battle to release their homeland’s curse and gain their freedom. I…

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Avempartha – Michael J. Sullivan

About the Book When a destitute young woman hires two thieves to help save her remote village from nocturnal attacks, they are drawn into the schemes of the wizard Esrahaddon. While Royce struggles to breech the secrets of an ancient elven tower, Hadrian attempts to rally the villagers to defend themselves against the unseen killer….

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The Escapement – K.J. Parker

Read my review for the first two books in the Engineer Trilogy: Devices and Desires and Evil for Evil.  I’ve heard the term “I like it so much it hurts” before but I’ve always thought it was a rather stupid turn of phrase. How can you like something so much it hurts? Ridiculous. However, I may…

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The Black Prism – Brent Weeks

About the Book Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five…

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