![]() ![]() ![]() It helps define the world, the actions of those good and bad, their religions, politics, and motivations: it is in every way the perfect example of Tolkien’s ‘secondary creation’ – a fact that raised great ire in me whenever I saw it in the blurb of this book, but now represents the highest compliment I can fathom. Despite a mild reception from Orson Scott Card – quoted as saying he initially found some aspects of the magic system disappointing – I can quite honestly say that Warbreaker’s magic system is as wonderfully wrought and visualised as any Sanderson has ever created. Mistborn is beautifully representative of Sanderson’s world-building abilities, specifically his magic system creation. I normally find myself dismissing standalone books by authors published around their ‘big hits’ – in this case, Sanderson’s ‘Mistborn’ trilogy – but I should have known better, considering the author in question. ![]() I’m actually relatively surprised by just how good this book really is. So here, finally, is my long-overdue review of Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson.Īnd boy did he know what he was doing when he wrote this one! I have found myself in a bit of a Brandon Sanderson mood, of late, thanks mostly to my lacklustre feelings surrounding ‘Steelheart’, and while I have pulled ‘Way of the Kings’ off the shelf to re-read, I also remembered that ‘Warbreaker’ had a bookmark left in the first 150 pages that I hadn’t returned to in a while. ![]()
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![]() With a title such as "Doomsday Diaries", you wouldn't expect a pair of friendly dolphins to decorate the cover. Luke will have to use all of his strength and martial arts prowess, harnessed and honed within the cramped quarters of his family's fallout shelter, in order to save his parents and others from monstrous and disastrous consequences. What awaits them is a planet Earth so different from any of their presumptions, more shocking and horrifying than they could ever imagine. Running out of supplies and food, they must now take their chances above, exposed and vulnerable to any predatory dangers lurking outside their shelter. ![]() Since the nuclear war devastated cities all across the United States of America five years ago, Luke and his family have been hiding out in an underground bomb shelter. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The Shot by Philip Kerr![]() ![]() Cubans have fled in their thousands to Florida, while the American government looks across the waters for signs of Russian influence over the fledgling state.Ĭentral to the story of The Shot is an American assassin who calls himself Tom Jefferson. Just a hundred miles or so from the tip of the Florida peninsula lies the island of Cuba, but its traditional role as puppet state of America, complete with Mafia-owned casinos, sex clubs and hedonistic lifestyles came to an end in 1958 when communist rebels, led by Fidel Castro, finally overturned the regime of Fulgencio Batista. ![]() In the pop charts, The Drifters were singing Save The Last Dance For Me, and a youthful looking senator called John Fitzgerald Kennedy had just won the election to become the thirty-fifth President of The United States. ![]() We are in America and it is the late autumn of 1960. Quercus has just republished The Shot, a 1999 novel by Kerr. I read one such – Hitler’s Peace – earlier this year and if you click the link it will take you to the review. ![]() Kerr, however, was good enough – and confident enough – to write superior stand-alone novels. The late Philip Kerr is justifiably renowned for his magisterial series of fourteen historical books featuring the sardonic German copper Bernie Gunther. ![]() |