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A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay is a beautiful novel about choices and how it comes to define who we are. Yes, it’s another one of those novels but when you have one that is written by a veteran author, you just can’t go wrong. In a way, books are like movies to…
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Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh is the first book in the Foreigner series. This series came highly recommended from a friend and I couldn’t wait to read it. After having finished it though, I felt it was a mixed bag. It definitely had a lot going for it towards the beginning and that itself got me…
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The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams is the first book in the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. I had no idea how popular this series was until just recently so I decided to give it a shot. I usually don’t like to read coming of age fantasy books anymore but made an exception for The…
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Circe by Madeline Miller is the retelling of a classic story of the mythical goddess named Circe. Most of us know of Circe from the The Odyssey which is another classic story. However, we only get a glimpse of Circe in The Odyssey as that is focused on Odysseus himself. With Circe by Madeline Miller,…
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Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is the first book of two in his Children of Time series. To get right to the chase, Children of Time is a very good read for science fiction fans even though it had a very big flaw. One of the main focal point talks about the often thought…
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The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather details the incredible downfall and collapse of the once thought of invincible Romans. There are always three sides to every story as they say: side A, side B, and the truth. Unfortunately, we’ll never get to know the real truth as to what really caused the…
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Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark is a short steampunk fantasy novella based in ancient Cairo, Egypt. I’ve got to admit that I wasn’t much attracted to the premise of the story but it was listed on a list of top fantasy reads of the year so I figured why not. As…
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The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge claims to be the authoritative book on the war for the Holy Land. It’s a pretty bold claim but since I know almost nothing on this subject matter, I’ll let others decide on that. What I did get out of reading this book felt akin to being taken on a…
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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon is an fantasy epic novel that has pretty much everything you’d expect. Things like dragons, pirates, princess and princes, assassins, betrayal, magic fights, world traveling etc. Oh and did I mention a really good looking book cover?! At 800 something pages, this is not your average…
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The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu is the second book in his Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy. The Three Body Problem was a huge success and it was such a blast to read through! With The Dark Forest, we get a different vibe and flow to the story then in the first but it manages…
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