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Art of Destiny de Wesley Chu
A hero once believed to be the chosen one must find a new path with the help of a band …
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A hero once believed to be the chosen one must find a new path with the help of a band …
'In this superb fantasy saga of tough, old martial-arts masters and inexperienced young heroes, Wesley Chu has given us a …
During the Decade of Plagues, pandemics brought civilization to a standstill. The only way out was the Aspis chip: a …
During the Decade of Plagues, pandemics brought civilization to a standstill. The only way out was the Aspis chip: a …
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of …
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of …
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of …
The setting is the Mediterranean at the end of the Middle Ages, if Carthage had won against Rome, if the Muslims had not conquered the Maghreb and Spain, if Jesus had been a woman, and if Europe had been threatened over the centuries by many elvish invasions. Oh, and magic happens.
The characters are well defined, but perhaps too close to DnD classes: the paladin, the sorcerer (no, the magician!), the cleric, the thief, the barbarian… So the whole adventure feels a bit like a ttrpg campaign.
On the other hand, Abercrombie is a master storyteller and I’m curious about what’s happening next for the company.
Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits …
Most white southerners believed in the 1950s that they lived in a humane racial system; their myth was that they treated black people well. They also believed that black people accepted segregation, except for a few malcontents. It was shocking for them to see nicely dressed black college students reading their textbooks while sitting at a lunch counter waiting for coffee, when they could get takeout coffee at the back door. Doubly shocking to see white men beating them up. Two secrets were exposed at once: black people want freedom, and segregation requires violence. Millions of slogans on picket signs could not do what a simple sit-in could do. Campaigns have power when we get beyond words-when we show rather than tell.
— How We Win de George Lakey
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of …
A climate thriller and anticipation novel, Always North is really well written, with enough poetry, vivid action and complex characters to embark the reader and take them wherever the story goes. And it never goes where it would be predictable -- only the climate catastrophe is.
The first book in the series, A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, will be published in spring 2025 and launches a …
Fortune always left whatever room I walked into, which is why I don’t leave my place much these days.
Veteran …