Reaper's Gale started slowly but I think it developed into a good book by the halfway mark, though it remains my second least favourite. That makes it sound bad, but honestly it's just that most of the other books were fantastic.
The only book in the series I actively disliked was Dust of Dreams.
Quite a few more than I can afford to be honest.
Steven Erikson
George R.R. Martin
Patrick Rothfuss
Joe Abercrombie
Ben Aaronovitch
Scott Lynch
Jim Butcher
Brandon Sanderson
Reading has quite definitely slowed down recently, but I managed to finish Chris Wooding's The Iron Jackal. A very good book by an author that gets quite noticeably better with every release.
Next up I plan to finally get around to Abercrombie's Red Country.
Switching characters for chapters isn't really that uncommon; Martin, Erikson, Bakker, Williams, Wurts. They all do it, that's just off the top of my head.
Just finished reading The Born Queen earlier today in fact. Like everyone else the ending didn't sit well with me, but I enjoyed the last book as a whole. Definitely one of the better series I've read in the last year.
Finished reading it earlier today, and to be honest I felt a little underwhelmed.
Not to say it wasn't a good read because it definitely was, but it didn't match up to some of the higher points of the series in my opinion.
I liked a lot of the elements about it, the notion of claiming...
Currently reading The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker.
After the whirlwind that was The Darkness That Comes Before I kind of feel like the pace has slowed to about nothing. I'm just over 100 pages in and have gone from eagerly reading chapter after chapter to forcing myself to slug through...
Roger Zelazny
Neil Gaiman
Guy Gavriel Kay
R. Scott Bakker
My list of discovered authors this year and it's only April! It's been a good haul, though I'd have to pit Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series as my best read so far.
I picked up a signed copy of Red Seas straight off the shelf in Waterstones ~one month after it first came out for the usual RRP. I count myself damn lucky.
Strange enough, I tried the much revered Fifth Head of Cerberus but I really just couldn't take it. Stayed with it for the first hundred or so pages but just got bored.
A Dance With Dragons - George R. R. Martin
Shadowrise - Tad Williams
Turncoat - Jim Butcher
Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch
Dust of Dreams - Steven Erikson
Traitor's Gate - Kate Elliot
Probably some others, but I really can't think of them right now.
Best book of the year?... Can barely remember what I read last year, it's all meshed together. After a bit of recapping, I chose:
Greg Keyes - The Briar King
Re: Ever had to put a book down for a little while because something in it startled y
Happens to me quite often actually. I stop for a few minutes and ponder what exactly just happened.
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That being the most recent occurance.
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