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Shadows Linger review
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Shadows Linger is the second in Glen Cook's Black Company series, and is an excellent follow-up. It jumps ahead 6 years from the events of the first novel, and we find ourselves in a far-off western city called Juniper. It's less focused on the Black Company and Croaker, and instead splits the...
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The Black Company review
| Reading time: 2 minutes
The Black Company is the first entry in Glen Cook's series following the eponymous mercenary company, and is usually considered one of the first "grimdark" novels - a subgenre that would explode in popularity in the mid 2000s and early 2010s with Mark Lawrence and Joe Abercrombie.
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Hellmouth review
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An excellent historical fiction/horror novel in the vein of Between Two Fires.
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Sand: Part One review
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Sand is an episodic novel set in a post-apocalyptic United States that's covered entirely in several hundred meters of sand. Our man character, Palmer, makes his living as a diver - he delves into the sand to bring back relics of the old world.
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Legend review
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Legend is classic 80's heroic fantasy, full of epic fights, epic deeds, epic men. It has a lot of the same soul that makes characters like Conan so appealing; it's filled with heroism and masculinity and larger-than-life characters.
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To Reign in Hell review
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I'm more familiar with Steven Brust through his Taltos novels, which I very much enjoy, but have had To Reign in Hell on my radar for some time now. I finally decided to give a read, and while it wasn't my favorite book - not even my favorite book dealing with this subject matter - it was an...
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