Genre: Epic Fantasy
Hardcover: 1008 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765326353
ISBN-13: 978-0765326355
Author Website: Brandon Sanderson
Series Website: StormBlessed.com
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Epic fantasy, good epic fantasy, is often about systems: systems of politics, or religion, of history, or of interpersonal relationships. These are the systems that can be found in most any novel. But when speaking [...]
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Book Review: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Book Review: The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Hardcover: 640 pages
Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: August 25, 2010
ISBN-10: 0316075558
ISBN-13: 978-0316075558
Author Website: Brent Weeks
Read: Chapters 1-3
The Black Prism is the first book of a new trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks. Noted for his gritty anti-hero characters in The Night Angel trilogy, Weeks brings some of the same sensibilities to [...]
Book Review: Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
Publication Date: August 24, 2010
ISBN-10: 0345484177
ISBN-13: 978-0345484178
Author Website: Terry Brooks
Bearers of the Black Staff is…well…a Terry Brooks novel. But what does that mean you ask? Well, simply put, if you liked Terry Brooks before, you’ll likely enjoy this first book in the Legends of Shannara series, and if you [...]
Book Review: Lord of the Changing Winds by Rachel Neumeier
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Orbit; 1 edition
Publication Date: May 1, 2010
ISBN-10: 0316072788
ISBN-13: 978-0316072786
Author Website: Rachel Neumeier
For Kes, life is disappointingly simple. She lives in a tiny village far from the centers of power, helps her sister raise horses, and hopes one day to become the village healer. But when a strange and [...]
Book Review: Song of the Dragon by Tracy Hickman
Genre: Epic Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Publication Date: July 6, 2010
ISBN-10: 0756406072
ISBN-13: 978-0756406073
Author Website: Tracy Hickman
Song of the Dragon is the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Hickman, best known for his collaborations with Margaret Weis on Dragonlance and the Death Gate Cycle. The story here is entirely Hickman’s [...]
Book Review: Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Paperback: 612 pages
Publisher: Pyr
Publication Date: March 23, 2010
ISBN-10: 1616141921
ISBN-13: 978-1616141929
Author Website: Adrian Tchaikovsky
In Empire in Black and Gold, debut author Adrian Tchaikovsky brings to fantasy a setting that is near unique, and a story full of sword and sorcery action.
The story follows one Stenwold Maker, a politician and spymaster, who recruits a merry [...]
Book Review: The Folding Knife by K. J. Parker
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Court Fantasy, High Fantasy
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Orbit; 1 edition
Publication Date: February 22, 2010
ISBN-10: 031603844X
ISBN-13: 978-0316038447
Author Website: K. J. Parker
In The Folding Knife, pseudonymous author K. J. Parker’s newest novel, a Machiavellian politician finds that even the most blessed of lives can be overturned by one bad decision.
The story follows Bassianus Severus, Basso [...]
Book Review: Spellwright by Blake Charlton
# Genre: Epic Fantasy
# Hardcover: 352 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books
# Publication Date: March 2, 2010
# ISBN-10: 0765317273
# ISBN-13: 978-0765317278
# Author’s Website: Blake Charlton
Blake Charlton’s novel writing career starts off with a bang in Spellwright. A complicated magic system, a large secondary world, and a tale of academic intrigue, murder and prophecy might seem more than [...]
Book Review: The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
My review of The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett – sequel to the acclaimed The Warded Man – is now available to read at Sacramento Book Review.
