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Nyphron Rising: The Riyria Revelations (Volume 3) by Michael J. Sullivan With the third book in the Riyria Revelations series, Nyphron Rising, Michael J. Sullivan has done it again. He has managed to write a story with a momentum that keeps the pages turning and the heart racing, keeping you itching to know what happens
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To create characters for your fantasy novel you must consider your market and create characters that your readers are able to relate to, and care for. This does not mean that you reveal all there is about your characters in the first few lines, your characters a best revealed a little as the plot unfolds, a little intrigue goes a long way. But your characters should be developed before you put your pen to paper.
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There’s an essential step to writing a really good novel that many new writers overlook. Once you understand this idea, your writing will be much more dynamic and powerful and you will be able to hook your readers into your story so they won’t want to put down your book until the last page. Here’s how to write a good novel that your readers will love: make sure you introduce a major crisis at the beginning of your story.
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Mirrorscape by Milk Wilks Mirrorscape is probably one of the most creative, imaginative YA fantasy books that I have read in a while, but that’s not to say it’s without it’s problems. The biggest draw of Mirrorscape is the imagination and creative environment that has been developed. There was so much imagination involved in developing
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Starfishers Volume 1: Shadowline (Starfishers Trilogy) by Glen Cook REVIEW SUMMARY: An Epic Space Opera tale. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An interesting, epic space opera revenge tale that weaves together separate story lines into an excellent read. MY REVIEW: PROS: Shadowline pulls together three distinct story lines, weaving them together over the course of the story, in
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Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett Mr. Shivers is a bit of an odd ball book. It beings as a simple quest and murder story set in the depression era of America (readers will be reminded of the HBO TV series Carnivale as it’s set in the same era but Mr. Shivers is a bit
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Warriors edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois In his Introduction, George R. R. Martin describes “Warriors” as a ‘spinner rack’, which is an apt description for an anthology that includes stories of every ilk from historical fiction, fantasy and sci-fi to a Western, mysteries, “some mainstream”, and “a couple of pieces that
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World’s End (Age of Misrule, Book 1) by Mark Chadbourn REVIEW SUMMARY: Celtic gods and creatures, Arthurian legends emerge as the technology of the current world fails. A well paced, character and setting rich “old world dies, new world begins” fantasy novel (first of a trilogy) MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Our current age of technology
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The Folding Knife by KJ Parker “On the morning of the day when Basso (Bassianus Severus, the future First Citizen) was born, his mother woke up to find a strange woman sitting at the foot of her bed. Her husband was away somewhere on business, and the servants slept downstairs. The woman was dirty and
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The Shadowmask: Stone of Tymora, Book II by Geno and R.A. Salvatore I have been a long time fan of Drizzt and the Forgotten Realms series. It’s one of the first fantasy series that I got into when I was in high school and really sparked my love for reading fantasy. So when I heard
The Way of Shadows (The Night Angel Trilogy) by Brent Weeks