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Quick Review: The Tower of the Swallow

Have to start by saying that the presentation in this book is odd. Switching between events and characters and points of view; changing back and forth while presenting one event between the words or thoughts of a character after the fact and depicting the action as it happens, sometimes following a character, which may or […]

Quick Review: Enemy of Man

Since this is sadly so rare among self-published books that it pretty much requires mentioning, I’ll start by saying that Enemy of Man is well edited. More notably, however, it’s also properly constructed, not only in terms of the action, which keeps escalating and eventually explodes in a manner which may, in itself, be almost […]

Quick Review: Bai Ganyo

The first stories are reasonably funny while obviously pointing out and criticizing certain character traits and behaviors. Later ones become more serious, with deeper character and social commentary presented more directly. Those taking place after the character’s return to Bulgaria continue this trend, the author harshly lashing out against the politics and the press of […]

Review: Blessings of a Curse

This is a big book, but if I managed to still sort of stay within what I consider the limits of a “quick review” for A Dance with Dragons, I thought I’ll manage it for Blessings of a Curse as well, with the plan after reading the first few chapters being to have three paragraphs […]

Quick Review: The Joined Realm

The author created an interesting world here and the book does take you through a significant part of it. Does so by using a lot of shortcuts though, so I’d quite like to explore and understand more of this world, The Joined Realm being a pretty short single book that focuses on what a single […]