Tag: fantasy
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Isles of the Emberdark review
Isles of the Emberdark is Brandon Sanderson’s latest Cosmere release and the fifth of his “secret project” novels produced during the pandemic and independently published via Kickstarter. Set in the Cosmere’s far future space age, where worlds are becoming more connected, it follows Dusk, who was a Trapper (a kind of ranger/custodian) of the deadly…
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Realm of the Elderlings series review
(this review covers the whole series but should scan as spoiler-free to all but the most sensitive of readers) Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings comprises 16 full length novels, one novella and half a dozen short stories, but its not as intimidating as it sounds. The novels are divided into five arcs with distinct…
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Wind and Truth review
This review is spoiler-free for Wind and Truth but may contain mild, implicit spoilers for previous Stormlight books. Brandon Sanderson has a particular way of writing finales. They are big and bombastic and bring foreshadowing from the whole story to bear while plot threads cascade into one another, resolving in sequence. The POV begins to…
