Another addition to The Book of Deacon series.
This is set after Jade so hopefully, maybe, we may find some answers within when i get around to reading it.
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Gubbins and the ‘Munculus — Gaie Sebold
A freebie over at the “Skulk members area” and a nice little taster of Gaie’s writing.
A really good twist on the sorcerer’s apprentice kind of theme, where instead of an apprentice we find that Gubbins is a slave.
“What’s a ‘Munculus?” you ask.
“Read it and find out,” i answer.
And then go and read Babylon Steel and Dangerous Gifts, coz Gaie is a damn good fantasy writer.
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Children of Nod — James K. Pratt
Night Side of Nature — James K. Pratt
The Writer and the Witch — Robin Sloan
A wonderful, fairy tale style, short story that you can read for free by simply popping in to Robin’s website while you’re passing.
And don’t forget to give all of Robin’s books a read: they’re really good as well.
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Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City — K. J. Parker
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
When i read this last time i never wrote a review for it: possibly because i’d only just written a review for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground and didn’t really see the need to say much the same for this book.
So what brings me to reading this book again and writing a review now, you may ask. Well, it’s because i just finished reading Heartless by Marissa Meyer and i so wanted to see how well it would flow into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland if it was read as a prequel.
Now i’m certainly not saying that this book needs a prequel, but if it were to have one then Heartless has my full blessings to occupy that honoured place.
Yes, one can argue that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a plenty wonderful book and stands perfectly alone without any need for a prequel, but, having just read Heartless beforehand as a prequel, i can fully attest that it makes for a much better reading experience if you do.
Here be some more ‘Alice and Wonderland’ books.
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Heartless — Marissa Meyer
Another book for fans of all things ‘Alice and Wonderland’.
In Heartless, Marissa has certainly written a very good prequel to the Lewis Carroll books, so much so that i now feel the need to re-read Wonderland and Looking Glass.
If you’ve ever wondered why the Hatter is Mad, why the Queen of Hearts likes chopping everyone’s heads off, where Jabberwockies come from, and lots more besides, then this is the book for you.
Well written, very enjoyable and quite unputdownable.
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The Gospel of Loki — Joanne Harris
Blood & Tears — Patty Jansen
The final book in this trilogy that has certainly kept me turning the pages and wanting more.
My only complaint with this book is that it’s collected together all the main protagonists from the previous two books and hops, back and forth, between each of their stories. Not normally a problem but because there are so many protagonists, each with their own little story to tell you, there are quite a few chapters between the chapter you leave off one protagonist’s story and the chapter you pick it back up again: each chapter in between belonging to a different protagonist’s story. This all leaves you starting each new chapter having to make an effort as to what the protagonist of that chapter was doing when you last heard from them. It’s not unwieldly or chaotic, but just loses the flow a little bit each time you get to a new chapter and you have to stop and think about where you are in the overall story each time.
And it’s not that i’m not used to dealing with lots of protagonists with contrasting story lines, i’ve read plenty of books like that; it’s just that in this book it just seemed to not quite flow as well and i’m not quite sure why.
And then all the protagonists stories coalesce into one single main event and *** BOOM *** it’s all over, finished, thank you very much for reading.
Maybe it’s just me being rather curmudgeonly, but i kinda wanted a lot more from the ending considering how much went on to get to it. I really enjoy a good ending — don’t we all — and this ending really didn’t balance with the story that lead to it.
Or maybe it’s just that i didn’t want the trilogy to end so soon: maybe it could have done with another 100 pages just to keep this curmudgeon happy. 
Yeah, so that all said, i did enjoy this trilogy as a whole and i’ll certainly be reading the “Moonfire Trilogy” sometime in the future to see what happens once everything has settled down from the icefire chaos.
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