Step into Ambergris, far detached from the confused, damaged, city struggling to return to something resembling normal that we are left in at the end of Shriek: An Afterword. The Ambergris of Finch is not the Ambergris I knew. War-torn, forlorn, the city has become a subdued hell ruled by the Risen Gray Caps that exists in the same sort of tortured calm that precedes a storm. This... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sargai) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4997 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:00:49 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4996/t/The-Magicians-Lev-Grossman.html There are few novels that leave me feeling cold and indifferent. The last one was The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. That was a book that seemed loved by everyone who read it, but I was somehow put off it. Yet, I could not and still cannot place my finger on just what it was that made me so unimpressed and indifferent to the novel. It was a good read, a quick read, but there was something missing, something wrong, about it. The... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sargai) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4996 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:59:42 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4992/t/The-Court-of-the-Air-by-Stephen-Hunt.html The Court of the Air, the things that I liked changed, twisted or were glossed over in favor of other, less interesting aspects of the story.

This vexed me more and more as the story progressed because there was one arc of the story where I enjoyed the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Lady Fellshot) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4992 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:32:09 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4965/t/Leviathan-by-Scott-Westerfeld.html feeds@yuku.com (Lady Fellshot) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4965 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:34:50 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4959/t/Canticle-Ken-Scholes.html The hardest reviews to write are for the books I love. This is an unfortunate truth, one that leaves me muttering and cursing as I once more hammer away at the backspace key. That these few reviews take the most out of me should come as no surprise. The time it takes for even the shortest review is easily double the length of time it takes to write any other and I am left to work against ever looking at them again because I know, deep down, that I will find some small... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sargai) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4959 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:53:59 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4958/t/The-Somnabulist-by-Jonathan-Barnes.html
On the one hand, I really liked the way it started. The narration was fun and pleasantly quirky. Somehow descriptions of horrible splatter deaths were made darkly amusing and terrible deeds lightly humorous. The prose style itself bore a very strong resemblance to Sarah Caudwell's, but possessed of much darker and stranger themes. I loved the writing style right off the bat.

The characters of Edward Moon and the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Lady Fellshot) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4958 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:13:44 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4953/t/Twilight-Falling-by-Paul-S-Kemp.html Twilight Falling by Paul S. Kemp- This is the first book in The Erevis Cale trilogy. The second book is, Dawn of Midnight, and the final book is Midnight's Mask. However, the first appearance of many of these characters are found in the Sembia: Gateway to the Realms feeds@yuku.com (travizzt) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4953 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:16:23 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4948/t/Contract-Simon-Spurrier.html There are two authors that I discovered and became fans of long before I read any of their work, before I had any plans at all of reading their work. The first is Warren Ellis-the comics writer, not the musician-whom I found during one of those distracted hikes through the bowels of Wikipedia. For what may have been hours, maybe days, I absentmindedly clicked away at each and every link until I found this author who came to be known as the Internet Jesus. I became a fan... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sargai) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4948 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:20:30 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4944/t/The-Best-of-the-Realms-Volume-One.html The Best of the Realms: Volume 1 edited by Philip Athans, J. Robert King, James Lowder, Brian M. Thomsen, and Lizz Baldwin- This Best of anthology was released in November of 2003 and takes the "best" of the short stories found within various Forgotten Realms anthologies. These anthologies include: Realms of Valor, Realms of Infamy, Realms of Magic,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (travizzt) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4944 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:19:09 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4939/t/Windwalker-by-Elaine-Cunningham.html Windwalker by Elaine Cunningham- This is the third and final book in the Starlight & Shadows trilogy. The first book is Daughter of the Drow and the second book is Tangled Webs. The events in this book take place directly after Tangled Webs.
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (travizzt) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4939 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:14:59 GMT http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4927/t/The-Ghost-King-R-A-Salvatore.html The Ghost King is, if anything, extremely hard to review without giving away spoilers. They start very near to the beginning of the novel and continue until the bitter end-the very last words on the very last page. Avoiding them is like a very complicated dance, full of subtlety and grace and possibly a few acrobatic feats thrown into the mix just to up the difficulty. It should be noted that I cannot dance and have all the grace of an elephant in a tutu... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Sargai) http://rasalvatoreforums.yuku.com/topic/4927 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:27:08 GMT