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Archive for April 2008

Book Review - The Last Argument Of Kings

In Book Reviews, Fantasy on 11 April 2008 tagged Abercrombie, book, fantasy, Joe, Last Argument Of Kings, novel, review with no comments

Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law trilogy has garnered a great deal of praise in only two years and it’s easy to see why. On the outside it looks like a simple fantasy tale with all the right elements woven in; there’s a city on the brink of war, a tall tower, a strange wizard [...]

Win a trip to the ‘Day of the Dead’ festival in Spain

In Competitions on 6 April 2008 tagged competition, DB Shan, dead, festival, procession, Spain with no comments

Win a trip to the ‘Day of the Dead’ festival in Spain courtesy of D.B. Shan’s new novel ‘Procession Of The Dead’.
This, the first volume of The City Trilogy, is a noirish, gritty, urban fantasy for adults from the bestselling author otherwise known as Darren Shan.
Quick-witted and cocksure, young upstart Capac Raimi arrives in the [...]

Book Review - The Lies Of Locke Lamora

In Book Reviews, Fantasy on 1 April 2008 tagged book review, fantasy, Gollanz, Locke Lamora, novel, Scott Lynch with no comments

It would be easy to hate Scott Lynch. By all accounts he began by posting parts of this, his first novel, on his blog and got noticed by Simon Spanton at Gollanz who promptly signed him up for a multibook deal, then sold the rights across Europe and the US. Now that’s nice [...]