Can’t Wait Wednesday : Priest of Gallows (War for the Rose Throne #3) by Peter McLean
16 December 2020
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Tags: Can't wait Wednesday, Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows, War for the Rose Throne #3, Wishful Endings
Gangster, soldier, priest. Queen’s Man. Governor.
Tomas Piety has everything he ever wanted. In public he’s a wealthy, highly respected businessman, happily married to a beautiful woman and Governor of his home city of Ellinburg. In private, he’s no longer a gang lord but one of the Queen’s Men, invisible and officially non-existent, working in secret to protect his country.
But when the queen’s sudden death sees him summoned back to the capital, he discovers his boss, Dieter Vogel, Provost Marshal of the Queen’s Men, is busy tightening his stranglehold on the country.
Just as he once fought for his Pious Men, he must now bend all his wit and hard-won wisdom to protect his queen – but now he can’t always tell if he’s on the right side.
Tomas has started to ask himself, what is the price of power? And more importantly, is it one he is willing to pay?
Expected Publication : May 2021
December Countdown, Day 16 : Turkey Dinner
16 December 2020
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Tags: Brandon Sanderson, December meme, Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive#3, Turkey Dinner
December book meme (details here). Turkey Dinner– a book that is almost too big to face: (but I will do it!)
Top Ten Tuesday : Books On My Winter TBR
15 December 2020
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Tags: That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday, Winter TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s topic :
Books On My Winter TBR
For this week’s prompt I’m highlighting the next ten books that I’m hoping to read. I’m still catching up with some review books that I’m behind with and have been using December to catch up. I’ve also included a couple from January that I’m going to squeeze in in the hopes of getting ahead:
Hollow Empire (Poison War #2) by Sam Hawke
Blood Heir (Aurelia Ryder #1) by Ilona Andrews
Bear Head (Dogs of War #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ink and Sigil by Kevin Hearne
Pawn’s Gambit (Mortal Techniques #2) by Rob J Hayes
A Wizard’s Sacrifice by AM Justice
Children (The Ten Worlds #1) by Bjorn Larssen
We Lie With Death (The Reborn Empire #2) by Devin Madson
Song (The Manhunters #1) by Jesse Teller
Paternus : War of Gods (The Paternus Trilogy #3) by Dyrk Ashton
December Countdown, Day 15 : Mince Pies
15 December 2020
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Tags: December meme, Margaret Rogerson, Mince Pies, Sorcery of Thorns
December book meme (details here). Mince pies – a little sweet something:
#SPFBO – Not a Review : Finalist Reading Schedule, Book #2
14 December 2020
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Tags: #SPFBO, Book #2, Not a Review, Reading Schedule, Robert H Fleming, The Fall of Erlon
300 books 10 Judges 1 winner
The 1st of June marked the start of the sixth Self Published Fantasy Blog Off (details here.) My Introductory post is here. Stage 1 is now complete and the finalists can be found here .
During Stage 2 I will read, review and score the remaining 9 finalists as will the other judges until a winner is revealed. As with previous years I have given each of the 9 books a number and randomly selected a reading order. Today’s post is to highlight the second book I will be reading and provide information regarding that particular finalist. The first finalist I read was Shadow of a Dead God by Patrick Samphire. This was a great start to the finals and my review can be found here.
My second finalist will be :
| The Fall of Erlon (The Falling Empires Saga #1) by Robert H. Fleming |
The Fall of Erlon is the finalist selected this year by The Critiquing Chemist. Their review can be found here and below is the description and author details:
As empires burn, heroes must rise.
Elisa Lannes was once heiress to the mighty Erlonian Empire. But when her mother abandons the empire and her emperor father is defeated on the battlefield and sent into exile, the world she would rule collapses around her. As enemies converge on the capital, Elisa must join with the last of the empire’s loyal soldiers to escape the evil that hunts her and her family.
With the help of her father’s generals, can Elisa find the strength to fight for her people? Or will a twist in the tide of the empire’s last war awaken an evil far greater than the enemy’s blade?
The Fall of Erlon is the first in the new military fantasy series from author Robert H. Fleming. If you like deep fantasy worlds filled with colorful characters and massive battles, the gods and generals of the Falling Empires Saga is for you.
