The Weight of Blood by David Dalglish is the first in his Half-Orcs series. I’m no stranger to the author as I’ve read all three of his previous books in the Shadowdance trilogy. However, the author’s more popular work consists of this series and I saw very great potential in him. Therefore, I gave this…

The Waste Lands by Stephen King is the third book in the Darktower series. I admit that I initially wanted to give up on the series because the first book was pretty boring. I finally listened to the many other reviewers raving about how the series get a whole lot better starting with the second…

The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King is the second book in the Dark Tower series. After having read The Gunslinger, I was not that impressed with how the series started. In fact, I even said that I was clearly not a big Stephen King fan. The best book I’ve read from him till…

The Gunslinger by Stephen King is the first book of his popular Dark Tower series. I believe at the moment there is a total of eight books that contribute to the series. To make it clear, I am not a Stephen King fan. I have read some of his books and for most of them,…

The Heroes is my first introduction to UK based author, Joe Abercrombie. As a author who writes dark and gritty fantasy books, what’s not to like? Fans of the author should be more familiar with his claim to fame, The First Law trilogy. While The Heroes is a stand alone novel, there are some mention…

It’s not very often you root for a protagonist in a story who does a whole lot of killing. Innocent killings, mind you. As a child, I’m sure you grew up listening to stories where the hero defends the innocent and slays the evil of the world. It’s cliche but yet not that much people…