Tag Archives: Tor/Forge

Daughter of Redwinter is Too Generic to Get Over the Hump from Good to Great

Posted on June 30, 2022 by H.P.

Another week, another new series from one of my favorite new writers of the last decade.  Last week it was Brian McClellan with In the Shadow of Lightning, this week it is Ed McDonald with Daughter of Redwinter.  McDonald’s Raven’s … Continue reading →

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Brian McClellan has done it again with In the Shadow of Lightning

Posted on June 21, 2022 by H.P.

Brian McClellan’s opening salvo in his latest series, In the Shadow of Lightning, didn’t immediately grab me.  The opening scenes, which take place some nine years before the events in the bulk of the novel and setup Demir’s character arc, … Continue reading →

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Throwback SF Thursday: The Black Company by Glen Cook

Posted on February 24, 2022 by H.P.

Glen Cook’s The Black Company was a milestone work that had an outsized influence on the fantasy genre.  Which is probably why Tor decided to reissue it (as a handsome trade paperback with a bland cover) for their “Tor Essentials” … Continue reading →

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The Bitter Fruit of War – Necessary Evil by Ian Tregillis

Posted on September 21, 2021 by H.P.

Necessary Evil is one of those final books in a trilogy (the alternative history fantasy Milkweed Triptych) that is impossible to talk about without badly, badly spoiling the prior two books.  So if you haven’t read Bitter Seeds and The … Continue reading →

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The Bitter Fruit of War – The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis

Posted on September 9, 2021 by H.P.

The Coldest War is book 2 in alternate history series The Milkweed Triptych, and the sequel to Bitter Seeds.  If you’ve come here to decide whether to read Bitter Seeds—do it!—I’ll still be here when you get back.  If you’ve … Continue reading →

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The Bitter Fruit of War – Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis

Posted on August 31, 2021 by H.P.

British sorcerers versus German supermen in an alternate history WWII: what’s not to love?  Actually, the premise left me nonplussed initially.  Sorcerers v. supermen seems a little like grist for post-role-playing discussions turned story premise for nothing more than the … Continue reading →

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Review of The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

Posted on May 25, 2021 by H.P.

Buehlman had me at “stag-sized battle ravens.”  That alone was enough to make me jump at an ARC of The Blacktongue Thief when offered one by the publisher.  And we do indeed get a giant warbird (if not quite so … Continue reading →

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Oathbringer Continues to Build on a Structurally Remarkable Series

Posted on August 14, 2018 by H.P.

This is it.  The review that I’ve been scheduling and cancelling in turn for three months.  I will keep this short, because if you have been looking for Oathbringer review, surely you have found one or…1,998 reviews to read first. … Continue reading →

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Six-Gun Tarot is a First Rate Genre-Bender

Posted on July 31, 2018 by H.P.

R.S. Belcher’s The Six-Gun Tarot is a great novel hampered by a classic first novel problem—it is too ambitious and tries to do far too much.  For a single novel checking in at under 400 pages, Belcher draws in elements … Continue reading →

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Brandon Sanderson Sets Up Oathbringer With Edgedancer

Posted on June 12, 2018 by H.P.

I picked up four books to read in anticipation of Oathbringer: the Mistborn trilogy and Edgedancer.  As I mentioned in my reviews of the Mistborn books, that trilogy isn’t very closely tied to the Stormlight Archive (but it is also … Continue reading →

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