Anna Kashina / Blades of the Old Empire / Terrific Fantasy

Blades of the Old Empire
Majat Code, book 1

Anna Kashina has my full attention
This fantasy has it all
Politics, Religion, Magic, Manners, Romance

Convoluted twists of plot
You know where the book is going
You know nothing of the sort

The characters are a riot
Flawed Humans One and All
You can't help but like them

The Majat are an elite group
Hired as assassins and body guards
Living a strict code

The Church is plotting against the King
The King is trying to save his son
The Son if falling for a Majat Warrior

Simply said
Too Much Fun!

Pierce Brown / Red Rising / Class Struggle On Mars

Superlatives for Red Rising
Are echoing across the web
I agree with them
Pierce Brown has written a zinger
Book 1; The Red Rising Trilogy

Darrow is a Red
Lowest of the low
All but slave in name

Darrow is a sensitive guy
A smart guy
They, the Golds
Highest of the high
Kill Darrow's wife

Darrow is a mad guy
Willing to do anything
Willing to become a Gold
Willing to wait

Tightly paced
Always near the edge
Totally engaging

I needed to set the book down
I needed to get some air
I needed to relax my muscles
I needed to relax my mind

Lots of comparisons
Babbling Hunger Games
Sorta, Kinda, Maybe
But no
This is Darrow's story


Music
Honky Tonk by Son Volt

Francis Knight / Fade to Black / Living Vertically

Fade to Black
Book 1 Rojan Dizon Series
Francis Knight

Rojan Dizon finds things
Objects, People, Things

Rojan Dizon lives in a vertical city
The very privileged on high
The very oppressed deep below

Rojan's magic
Pain Magic
Ouch!

Rojan's niece has been abducted
Taken to the very bowls of the city

Secrets are revealed
Secrets are reviled

Necessity of corruption?
Necessity of oppression?

Give me a break
No breaks were found

Broken people trying to do the right thing
Broken people not doing the right thing

Twisted layers of plot
A mobius strip of honeyed filo dough
Bitter under tones
Delicious

Where is Francis Knight going from here
I have not a clue but I'm going with her

Something different in music
Foreverly Billie Joe + Nora
Billie Joe Armstrong
Nora Jones

Carousel Sun / Sharon Lee / Old Earth Magic

I'm going to recommend this one to my wife
The earth based magic will appeal
Carousel Sun, as I learned reading the ARC
Is a sequel to Carousel Tides
I am reading Carousel Tides now
I'll read it quickly

Kate Archer, the protagonist
Lives in a small ocean side town in Maine
Runs the carousel at the small amusement park
Kate Archer has secrets
The carousel has secrets too
Dark secrets

Sharon Lee creates characters
Characters you want to get to know
Characters whoes company you enjoy
You can identify with them
Their triumphs
Their defeats

Sharon Lee also co-authors the Liaden Universe Books
She writes with her husband Steve Miller
I can't get enough of the Liaden Universe
A Space Opera of Manners and Dering Do
So glad I'm not caught up yet

Sharon Lee tells a good tale
Modern fantasy fans will not be disappointed
I love it when favored authors
Can deliver in more than one genre
Sharon Lee delivers


What the Toll Tells by Two Gallants
Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel
I've been so lost in this CD of late
I purchased a copy for the Library
Lyrics and Music simply brilliant
This is not party music
Here you will find
Introspection, Grief, Anger
And so much more
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Wesley Chu / The Deaths of Tao / Too Much Fun

Hopefully you've read it
Hopefully you read my post
The Lives of Tao      (Post)

Wesley Chu has out done himself
The Deaths of Tao is even better
Faster paced
More info on us
How we became who we are
I'm appalled, yet intrigued
Disgusted, yet fascinated

Those aliens are doing a real number on us
I don't think there is much we can do about it
Wars will continue to happen
Mayhem will not be stopping soon

Have some fun
Immerse yourself
Smile while you read

Thank You Angry Robot for the ARC!

New to the music collection
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Cardinology