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Nine years after reading The Riftwar Saga, I feared that I’ll be at a loss, remembering so few specifics that I wondered what “mind-boggling” and “audaciously ambitious” scope and setting I was referring to in the quick review for A Darkness at Sethanon. However, Daughter of the Empire takes place entirely on Kelewan and stands […]

Full disclosure: I received this book through a giveaway on The StoryGraph. This has in no way influenced the opinions expressed in this review. I must say that The Ordinary Bruja is a book of very different parts, so if I’m to start with the good I must skip well ahead, the parts where it […]

The first three parts of the book consist of rather dry history mainly focused on economic inequality and some related aspects and implications, generally showing that, while the specifics differed, things were always awful. The exception were some elements that reached levels that could justify some hope between 1950 and 1980, but those have started […]

Like The Cardinal’s Blades, The Alchemist in the Shadows is still a swashbuckling adventure set in an alternate history, with little room for depth or thought-provoking moments, and featuring stereotypical characters, the main ones being certain to make it through pretty much anything thanks to their great fighting skills and even greater luck. And Ballardieu […]

I wanted something light, that would be quick and easy to read, to finally start this year’s reading list, and the fact that it still took me too long to finish is not the fault of the book, The Cardinal’s Blades definitely checking those boxes. It’s a swashbuckling adventure set in an alternate history, with […]