The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson This novel picks up where the first one left off, with the band of scoundrels who have managed to take over the empire trying to hold onto their victory. Elend Venture has taken over as king, but he’s more of an idealist and a scholar and is having …
Tag: high fantasy
Sep 12
Book Review: The Final Empire
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson This book represents what high fantasy aspires to. Extremely high stakes, good versus evil, magic and adventure and even a little bit of romance pack a very long (24 hour audiobook) first book in the series. I was hesitant to start it because of its length, but the weighty …
Feb 20
Book Review: Queen of Blood
The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst While the era of the western novel may have come and gone, this book, which came out in 2016, proves that high fantasy is still going strong. It has all the elements of an archetype of this trope: magic, queens, men with swords and armor, danger, a …
Aug 20
Book Review: The Silvered
The Silvered by Tanya Huff This has all the typical paranormal romance/urban fantasy tropes set in a Victorian technology, high-fantasy world. It has sexy werewolves and mages, hot air balloons and cannons and muskets. At times it felt like a regency romance, with the status-mad mother of the female heroine and the description of the …
Nov 11
Book Review: Four Winds, One Storm
Four Winds – One Storm: The Bone Brick City by Aaron Hollingsworth I got this book as an ARC from the author, who found me on goodreads. He warned me that the copy I was going to get was not formatted well, so I’ll assume that if you buy this book the weird margins and …