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ALINA BELLCHAMBERS The Order of Masks. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

ALINA BELLCHAMBERS The Order of Masks. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 26 Sep 2024 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

Spies, magic, intrigue, and the human cost of an expanding empire all feature in Australian author Alina Bellchambers’ debut fantasy. Growing up on the run from mysterious criminals with her mother, Mira has always dreamed of having safety and stability; of being able...
BRANDON SANDERSON Tress of the Emerald Sea. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

BRANDON SANDERSON Tress of the Emerald Sea. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 11 Apr 2023 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

The first of Brandon Sanderson’s ‘secret novels’ delivers a resourceful heroine on an epic quest. During the pandemic, prolific fantasy author Brandon Sanderson found he had more time on his hands and, as he puts it, ‘Brandon + Time = Stories‘. He...
JULIET MARILLIER A Dance with Fate and A Song of Flight. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

JULIET MARILLIER A Dance with Fate and A Song of Flight. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 6 Sep 2022 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

Juliet Marillier’s Warrior Bards series is a joy to read and has a lot to say about tolerance. I remember the times when Brocc and I played and sang for weddings and festivals. That feels so long ago. Before Swan Island. Before I met Dau … A different world. But...
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI The Tower of Fools, Book 1 of the Hussite Trilogy. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI The Tower of Fools, Book 1 of the Hussite Trilogy. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 15 Jul 2021 | Fiction, SFF | 2 comments

The bestselling author of the Witcher novels turns to history in The Tower of Fools, the first instalment of his latest epic series. Andrzej Sopkowski’s new historical fantasy trilogy is set in fifteenth-century Eastern Europe during the Hussite wars (the Hussites...
BRANDON SANDERSON Rhythm of War: Stormlight Archive Book 4. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley.

BRANDON SANDERSON Rhythm of War: Stormlight Archive Book 4. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley.

by NRB | 25 Feb 2021 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

Brandon Sanderson’s epic fantasy series encompasses battles both mental and physical. A thousand quotes from noted scholars leapt to her mind. Accounts of what it was like to be in war. She’d read hundreds; some so detailed, she’d been able to smell the blood in...
TRUDI CANAVAN Maker’s Curse: Millennium’s Rule Book Four. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

TRUDI CANAVAN Maker’s Curse: Millennium’s Rule Book Four. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 21 Jul 2020 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

Trudi Canavan provides a suitably epic final instalment to her Millennium’s Rule series with Maker’s Curse.  ‘All you can do is make sure you only have enemies because you are a good person.’ The bestselling author of four previous series, including...

DUNCAN LAY Valley of Shields: Empire of Bones Two. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson

by NRB | 28 May 2013 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

This fast-paced epic fantasy has plenty of Machiavellian twists and poses some deeper questions. Book Two of Duncan Lay’s Empire of Bones trilogy opens with an emotionally devastated Rhiannon trying to deal with a series of powerful shocks. She has found that the men...

ROBIN HOBB Blood of Dragons: Book Four of the Rain Wild Chronicles. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by NRB | 17 Apr 2013 | Fiction, SFF | 0 comments

Inscrutable dragons and a mysterious city: the final volume of Robin Hobb’s latest series ties up the loose ends and reveals a few surprises. Blood of Dragons is the fourth and final book in The Rain Wild Chronicles and follows seamlessly from City of Dragons,...
             

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