Can’t Wait Wednesday : Redemption’s Blade: After The War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
11 April 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Can't wait Wednesday, Redemption's Blade, Wishful Endings
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is : Redemption’s Blade: After The War by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I want this book in my life.
Ten years ago, the renegade demigod known as the Kinslayer returned. His armies of monsters issued from the pits of the earth, spearheaded by his brutal Yorughan soldiers. He won every battle, leaving burnt earth and corruption behind. Thrones toppled and cities fell as he drove all before him. And then he died. A handful of lucky heroes and some traitors amongst his own, and the great Kinslayer was no more.
Celestaine was one such hero and now she has tasked herself to correct the worst excesses of the Kinslayer and bring light back to her torn-up world. With two Yorughan companions she faces fanatics, war criminals and the monsters and minions the Kinslayer left behind as the fragile alliances of the war break down into feuding, greed and mistrust.
The Kinslayer may be gone, but he cast a long shadow she may never truly escape.
Due for publication: 26th July 2018
Never say Never
Top Ten Tuesday
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 is :
Books I Loved but Will Never Re-Read
I thoroughly enjoyed all of the books below which makes it a surprise that I’m saying I wouldn’t reread them at some point – although In fairness I never really say never (see what I did there). But, the books below all have something in common, either a twisted ending or a reveal of some kind – now that I know about the ending the tension would be less during the read. I still might enjoy these, especially if I give myself enough time to forget the conclusion. As it is though, these are all still fairly fresh. That being said, I highly recommend these books:
- Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
- 13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough
- The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne
- The Hike by Drew Magary
- The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
- The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue
- The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
- The Sleep Walker by Chris Bohjalian
Weekly Wrap Up : 08/04/18
Well, this week has been crazy. I’ve done no blogging at all and I’m behind with reviews. We’ve had friends staying and books and everything else have taken a back seat. It was good fun. I have read two books though.
Books read:
- One Way by S J Morden
- The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst – wow, I love this and can’t wait to read No.2.
Next Week’s Reads:
- School for Psychics by K C Archer
- The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
Upcoming reviews:
- Starborn by Lucy Hounsom
- Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
- The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes
- The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath
- Tiger Lily by K Lincoln Bird
- The Atrocities by Jeremy C Shipp
- One Way by S J Morden
- The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
I’d love to know what you’re reading this week.
Friday Face Off: “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody…
6 April 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Mary Norton, The Borrowers
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme created by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. Future week’s themes are listed below. This week’s theme:
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – a cover featuring a family
Well, I really struggled with this one. I knew that Spoonbenders had a cover with a family on it, but I’ve used that before (I think) so wanted to avoid it. Then I thought of The Sisters Mederos which is a recent read that I enjoyed but there’s only the one cover at the moment. Finally, I came up with a childhood read, The Borrowers by Mary Norton – no shortage of covers for this one!
My favourite this week is the one with the family helping to hang up the title of the book with all the reels of cotton and chess pieces in the picture to give you the idea of the scale of the people:
Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover featuring a panorama
Future themes:
13th April – ‘lawns and rocks and heather and different sorts of trees, lay spread out below them, the river winding through it’ – a cover featuring a panorama
20th April – Where there’s fire there’s… – a cover featuring smoke
27th April – ‘Those darling byegone times… with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture’ – a cover that is positively mediaeval
4th May- ‘A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister.’ – a cover featuring a hand/hands
11th May – ‘Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth’ – a cover featuring a dinosaur/s
18th May – ‘Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;’ – a cover featuring a gravestone
25th May – Trip trap, trip trap, trip trap – a cover featuring footsteps
1st June – clinging and invasive – a cover featuring creeping vines
8th June – Raining Cats and Dogs – a cover featuring a stormy sky
Weekly Wrap Up : 01/04/18
Easter is here – hope you’re all having a break and spending time with family and friends. My last week’s reading went a little off track. I threw in another one of my SPFBO books and also a short ghost story:
Books read:
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes
- The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath
- Tiger Lily by K Lincoln Bird
- The Atrocities by Jeremy C Shipp
Next Week’s Reads:
- School for Psychics by K C Archer
- One Way by S J Morden
- The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
Upcoming reviews:
- Starborn by Lucy Hounsom
- Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
- The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes
- The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath
- Tiger Lily by K Lincoln Bird
- The Atrocities by Jeremy C Shipp
I’d love to know what you’re reading this week.
