![]() Pdf as without difficulty as review them wherever you are now. The other two are above average, but nothing approaching the early ASoIaF novels.ĭisclosure: I received copies of The Whitefire Crossing and The Tainted City via NetGalley. Getting the books Levin The Earth Through Time Edition Pdf now is not type of challenging. The first story would be more effective if the big twist weren’t already known to most people by the time they pick up this book. MartinĪ Knight of the Seven Kingdoms collects three previously published novellas-The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Mystery Knight-featuring “Dunk” and “Egg” and set a generation before A Song of Ice and Fire. It does dark right, including one of the most holy shit moments I can remember reading in a long, long time.Ī Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. It’s even more inventive than the first, mostly taking place hundreds of years later. The Dark Forest is just as good but has been inexplicably ignored. The Three-Body Problem rightly won the Hugo for best novel. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen We learn considerably more about the Knights Radiant and Voidbringers. The story never lets up and isn’t quite so video game-esque this time around. Adolin, Dalinar, and Kaladin are back, but it’s Shallan who gets the flashbacks and shines. Words of Radiance is better than The Way of Kings. After losing her publishing deal and a long delay, Schafer self-published the final volume in The Shattered Sigil trilogy, The Labyrinth of Flame, in December. The Tainted City drops the mountaineering, but it keeps the worldbuilding with American roots and thought-provoking meditation on liberty-security. The Whitefire Crossing revolves around a smuggling mission over a steep mountain pass between a magic-rich nation and a nation where magic and magic items are prohibited. Schafer’s mountaineering background shows big in her debut. The Whitefire Crossing and The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer They deserve this much at least, and no hurdle to writing a full review of the next book when the time comes. But it has been too long since I read these and I’ve too little time. I want to go on at great length about The Shattered Sigil books and The Dark Forest in particular. These books all deserve more attention than I’m giving them.
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