Pale Demon is the most thrilling book we’ve seen since A Fistful of Charms — and is also the absolute best in the series. If you’re not reading this series, then you are simply missing out.
Tag: ARC
Review: A Christmas Carroll by Leanna Renee Hieber
Hieber has a talent for making the eerily supernatural a perfectly normal phenomenon. Reading her words, it is not unreasonable to imagine that one could look up from the turn of a page to see a Victorian ghost come gliding through a wall. The language, like the previous volumes, is lovely and ephemeral and obviously carefully chosen to evoke the time period in question.
Review: Pack of Lies by Laura Anne Gilman
Making the focus of your mystery a sexual assault is either a very brave or a very stupid thing for a writer to do. Readers are way more uncomfortable with rape than they are with murder or other violent crimes. The success or failure of the story depends on whether you’re a good enough writer to pull it off. Laura Anne Gilman carries the sensitive subject well, resolving it in probably the only way that it could have been.
Review: The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe
I think Helen Lowe has given us a unique new twist on the old “coming of age” fantasy trope and I can’t wait to see what else she’s going to do with it. Not only that, but now that I know from her website that she’s also a poet, I understand the beautiful imagery of this novel. The language here is gorgeous and unobtrusive.
Review: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings The Stormlight Archive #1 Written: Brandon Sanderson[website] Published: Tor When: August 31, 2010 ISBN: 978-0765326355 Obtained via: Purchase* (I also won an ARC in a contest, but ended up buying a copy as well.) Cover blurb: Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain…