A likeable, diverse cast heads this first novel in the Rain Wilds Chronicles....

The pacing is all wrong on this one, with characters that are flung at the reader and just as quickly tossed away....

A fun read with an ending that didn't quite satisfy. However, Duncan delights anyway with a likeable main character and enough twists to keep things interesting....

Lord of the Fire Lands by Dave Duncan continues the story begun in The Gilded Chain and ends with a twist that so surprised me I didn't wait long to pick up the next in the series. Duncan continues to impress!...

Led me down such a herky-jerky path that the only thing clear to me was that I was not going to continue with the series....

Billed as the first "podiobook," Tee Morris has created a gem of a story here regardless of the format. Part fantasy, part noir detective novel, Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword had me laughing out loud at times....

A fun adventure full of colorful characters, intrigue, magic, and, of course, the King's Blades....

Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell is a "Caribbean style" science fiction novel with a little bit different style because of that. While I did enjoy the world building, I wasn't initially intrigued enough to jump into the next book in the series. Eventually I did, though, and I loved Buckell's other installments....

Farthing has a style that is easy to read and holds the reader's attention fairly well, but ultimately I just didn't find enough going on here to give it a recommendation....

Duncan delivers another gripping tale set in the (mostly) historically accurate Venice of yesteryear....