As a longtime Joe Abercrombie reader, I had high expectations for the follow-up to his original trilogy and the series that would come after the last novel, the stand-alone Red Country. To take a world as grim as The First Law trilogy and bring it into the industrial age was a bold move but one …
How Kinch, our narrator, tells the story makes this novel so exceptional. It’s as if you’ve run into the thief at a tavern in this world, after the events of a series, and become drinking buddies with Kinch. Now, he’s telling you the whole story of how he ended up here in the first place as you pick up the next rounds of ale.
The series, A Chorus of Dragons by Jenn Lyons, since its first book The Ruin of Kings, released in 2019, has quickly become the series I look forward to the most. The fourth book, The House of Always, is no exception. It continues to balance the world-building, plot, and character development of the characters and …
Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson is a novella set between Oathbringer, the third book of The Stormlight Archive, and the fourth, Rhythm of War. If you have not read Oathbringer, there will be spoilers for the previous books. You could read this on its own if you’re the type of intuitive reader to use context clues …
It has been a long three years, but the next installment of Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives is finally here with Rhythm of War. One year has passed on Roshar since the end of Oathbringer, and a lot has changed in the war between Odium’s forces, the combined might of the returned Fused, and the now-free Singers …
A Little Hatred, the first book in Joe Abercrombie’s Age of Madness trilogy, came out merely one year ago. That book set the pieces on the chessboard and made their first moves. Now The Trouble with Peace has arrived and the powers plays are being set in motion on all sides. As it begins, it …
The Holidays are here, and 2019 is nearly over. You’ve got that Christmas money from grandma or that gift card from the Secret Santa exchange at work. Maybe you are returning something you truly disdained and need something to put you in a better mood. Why not buy yourself a new book? Here are the …
Note: Jenn Lyons’s first book Ruin of Kings was such a hit with Geekly readers that we wanted to do even more to showcase her second book, The Name of All Things. And as Josh MacDougall pointed out, there are two narrators for this second volume, so what better than two reviews and two extras–an …
In the port city of Vastai, to serve as the Raven’s Lease is to one day sacrifice yourself to the god known as the Raven so he will, in turn, serve and protect that port and its citizens. It is a great honor, and one Mawat, the heir to the current lease, has come home …
Since 2007, Steven King’s The Dark Tower has been in development hell shifting hands from J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Ron Howard before ultimately landing in the grasps of Akiva Goldman, Jeff Pinker, and Nikolai Arcel. With Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers, and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black, …