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Review: Red Country – Joe Abercrombie
When Shy and her surrogate-father Lamb return home from a trip to the village to sell the crops, they find the farm burned, Shy’s brother and sister gone and their caretaker hanged. A determination and a flicker of wrath stir in the otherwise placid Lamb, and they set out to chase the perpetrators. Elsewhere in the Near Country, Temple, chief lawyer and secretary to the washed-up mercenary captain-general Niccomo Cosca, has seen enough of the company’s ‘heroics’.
Review: The Heroes – Joe Abercrombie
The Heroes follows a set of characters on two sides of a bloody battle between the Union and the North. Switching perspectives from hour to hour, The Heroes goes into all the muddy, gruelling detail we expect from Abercrombie, and then some.
Review: Best Served Cold – Joe Abercrombie
Against a backdrop of Machiavellian politics and bloody war between the city states of Styria, former mercenary general Monzcarro Murcatto is betrayed and nearly murdered by an employer she thought she could trust. Battered and beaten, she scrapes together a crew of bloody-minded misfits with a single mission: Revenge!
Review: The Last Argument of Kings – Joe Abercrombie
Part three in the First Law Trilogy – Logen returns to the North to face his old demons, Jezal returns to home to a different life, and Inquisitor Glokta returns to Adua, expecting to be assassinated the moment he disembarks from his ship…
Review: Before They Are Hanged – Joe Abercrombie
Part two in the First Law Trilogy – The first of the magi goes on a quest across the world in search for an artifact that only he understands, Inquisitor Glokta is sent to a Union colony to solve the murder of his predecessor, and Colonel West is sent to the North to defend civilsation itself.
Review: The Blade Itself – Joe Abercrombie
Part one in the First Law Trilogy – Enter the grim dark world of Joe Abercrombie’s debut novel, featuring a cast of twisted characters struggling to find meaning in a world that is frayed by war and injustice.
Yearly Wrap-up: 2023 in Review
Our curators look back at their 2023 resolutions, and their favourite fantasy and science fiction media of the past year. Which media on their to be read/watch/listen/play piles got their attention? And what else did the year bring?
Review: He Who Drowned the World – Shelley Parker Chan
Part 2 in the Radiant Emperor – Zhu Chongba having become Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, and shown her desire to the world, she must now find a way to take Dadu, the Yuan capital, and take the title of Great Khan for herself. She is not the only one fighting for this position, however. General Ouyang, the eunuch general who betrayed the Great Yuan, is still out for the ultimate revenge. Madame Zhang is looking for a means to put her husband – whoever he might at that time be – on the throne. And Wang Baoxiang, the new Prince of Henan, has dark plans of his own. As the power struggle in court and on the battlefield reaches a fever pitch, the question becomes: will it be worth all the sacrifices made along the way?
Review: The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan
When an artefact from the Age of Legend is stolen, Rand and his friends set out to retrieve it, while the girls start their training in the use of the One Power.
Review: The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
A sheepherder from a country village is dragged into an adventurous life when his home is attacked by evil trollocs. A powerful mage and her sworn warder take him on a perilous journey of discoveries, hardship, and challenges.
Review: The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski
Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, trained to fight monsters of all shapes and sizes. As Geralt travels the continent in search of bounties to earn his coin with, he is confronted with a difficult truth: some monsters are fairer than others, and some monsters are not even monsters at all.
Review: Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
Review: The Great God Om manifests himself on Discworld once more, ready to herald a new age. To his own distress, however, Om finds himself trapped in the body of a lowly tortoise, stripped of his divine powers.
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