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Quick Review: Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra

The 19 years that passed since I read the first book were a serious reason for concern, so it was a relief that the fact that readers were likely to need a lot of reminders was fully taken into consideration. Not that it’s surprising, considering the 28 years that passed between the respective release dates, […]

Quick Review: The Dark Defiles

It took me far too long to read this book, and while my eyes having a hard time with the font, even more so when large sections were mostly or even almost entirely in italics, had something to do with it, the main reason is the complexity coupled with the time that passed since I […]

Quick Review: The Narrow Road Between Desires

This doesn’t fit how I think of Bast. But to call what I remember about a secondary character that I didn’t care much about to begin with vague would be an understatement, nearly ten years after reading The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear and nine after reading The Slow Regard of […]

Quick Review: Henry Halifax and the Tutori’s Cloak

I seem to have picked this up for free at some point, and the fact that it aims to push an ideology on a younger audience makes it the sort of book that probably needs to be free. So, while, unlike what I assume to be the tremendous majority of people, I consider the message […]

Quick Review: The Lost Metal

It’s clear from the prologue that The Lost Metal is Wayne’s book, but even so it may be hard to believe just how much, the impact and the extent of his development, or more exactly of what is revealed about his character. And that’s far from the only aspect, the other characters also developing, revealing […]