by J F Mehentee | Wednesday 10 March 2021 | Books I've Read
At 982 pages, Dragon Mage isn’t a story that’s encumbered by its length! Okay, so there are dragons, which is reason enough to read this book, but the friendship between Aram and Markus, the story’s main protagonists, set Dragon Mage apart from stories of this ilk. I...
by J F Mehentee | Wednesday 10 February 2021 | Books I've Read
There’s a lot to like about Brian Staveley’s, The Emperor’s Blades: great characters, great plotting and great action. The story’s three main characters are the three siblings, two brothers and a sister, of the recently murdered Annurian emperor. Valyn is...
by J F Mehentee | Wednesday 13 January 2021 | Books I've Read
Set in the City of the Eternal Siege, The Mortal Blade introduces us to a world filled with gods, humans and the inequalities between them. Corthie Holdfast is a captured mortal with god-like powers who is brought to the city to fight as its Champion against the...
by J F Mehentee | Wednesday 30 December 2020 | Books I've Read
Adopted at an early age by a birdlike Tengu sword master, the teenage Ken’ishi tries to make his way in a world filled with demons and duplicitous humans. With only a dog for companionship, his dead father’s mystical and coveted sword, Silver Crane, and with no master...
by J F Mehentee | Wednesday 2 December 2020 | Books I've Read
The events in John Gwynne’s second instalment of the Faithful and The Fallen series starts immediately where Book 1, Malice, left off. Although I didn’t count them, I’m sure this second book introduces more point of view characters than the first. Almost all of the...
by J F Mehentee | Wednesday 26 August 2020 | Books I've Read
Maia, a half-goblin, suddenly finds himself emperor of an Elven empire after his father and three half-brothers are killed in an airship accident—or was it an accident? The Goblin Emperor is a standalone fantasy novel of over four hundred pages. It’s a deep...
