Our Best Books of 2025
We're back from the Holidays. Happy New Year. We list what we think are the best books we read in 2025, which are not limited to but do include a lot published in 2025.…
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Tag: sung-il kim
Bookling: Blood for the Undying Throne
We discuss how much we love the 2nd book in Sung-il Kim's The Bleeding Empire series. New locations, new characters, surprising returns, and an ambitious but nerve-wracking ending are delved into here. Your hosts…
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Blood for the Undying Throne Review: Empire of Death and Death of Empire
Like Sung-il Kim’s debut novel Blood of the Old Kings (translated by the incomparable Anton Hur), his follow-up Blood for the Undying Throne is a trove of badassery. It takes everything awesome about 90s…
Read story ↗Off the Books: Sung-il Kim and Anton Hur
On this Off the Books, we are interviewing Sung-il Kim, author of Blood of the Old Kings, and Anton Hur (Toward Eternity, transl. Blood of the Old Kings, I Want to Die but I…
Read story ↗Bookling: Blood of the Old Kings
On this Bookling, we discuss Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim, translated by Anton Hur. Multi-eyed dragons, fiery swords, mech-like war machines, and a curmudgeon sorcerer trapped in a mindscape are just…
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