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gilder s getaway gilder s getaway musings on writing lessons learned by an aspiring professional book reviews movie reviews an occasional t v show review and unashamed opinion tuesday december 8 2015 change is afoot dun dun duuuuunnnnn posted by jordan at 5 15 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday june 27 2013 fun news so a while back my friend tony mentioned that adventures in scifi publishing a website and podcast devoted to speculative fiction was seeking new book reviewers shaun farrell the podcast creator was kind enough to let me submit i approached him after the response deadline an old review i did here last year as a sort of application he liked it or i m assuming he did because he got me in contact with an author to get a copy of his book to review for the website that author was zachary jernigan really cool guy by the way and his debut fantasy i received was no return about a month and a half later i d finished no return but hadn t had the time to write my review yet shaun recorded an episode of the podcast saying he was stepping down as show runner it was sad news i d been a fan of aisfp for years and had even met shaun along with my friend tony in reno during worldcon i figured the new show runner timothy c ward would want to pick his own reviewers and i didn t bother asking if he still wanted my no return review not long after however tim emailed me and was enthusiastic about me submitting no return so i typed up my review got it approved and now it s posted check it out at www adventuresinscifipublishing com it s small potatoes i know but i m excited to be able to contribute to the aisfp community and hope tim takes my reviews for a long time to come i read a lot of freak n genre books and enjoy writing the occasional book review for those titles i think worth mentioning i d already grown tired of posting so many reviews here i d never meant for my blog to be about book reviews so i am pleased to be able to write a few here and there on another site look for my book reviews at the aisfp website from now on that s all posted by jordan at 1 00 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book reviews news tuesday may 14 2013 still alive i ve been silent for a month and a half now mostly it s because of this guy our family of three has become a family of four it s been an adjustment also i ve had three weeks of the worst cold in my life i was worried for a while that it was pneumonia but it didn t get quite that serious i m at the point where i m ready to get back into early morning writing and have a lot of words to get written my desire for blogging has changed a bit i ve already stated that i was getting tired of posting so many book reviews this is still true so i don t have a lot of material worth blogging about i still go through audiobooks like mad i might post lists of books i think are worth reading every once in a while one or two posts a month is going to be the new trend truth is my time is even more limited now with a newborn in the house between work caring for my daughter helping my wife with the boy much needed r r and then writing i don t have a lot left in the tank for creative blogging i believe c est la vie is the appropriate phrase that s all for now posted by jordan at 7 35 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 26 2013 mini reviews 4 wow time flies when you re busy i ve been neglecting the blog for a while for several reasons but mainly because i ve been in a funk for the past month that has been hard to shake here s hoping that s all done with i have several posts in the works a few more what the crap posts and other things besides reviews it s been so long though since i ve posted that i need to get these two reviews out of the way before i forget what i want to say about these books so here goes the king s blood by daniel abraham it is the second book of his dagger and coin series and picks up right where book 1 left off in my opinion tkb takes this series to a new level and my respect and admiration for abraham continues to grow he is proving to be a master at epic storytelling the pace of the story certainly quickens in this volume and the characters end up in some surprising places i hadn t foreseen i can t wait to see what happens in the tyrant s law which is schedule for release in a couple of months abraham is a subtle writer i never feel like his characters are beating me over the head with their ideologies and positions it is impossible i think to feel completely for or against most of the cast i said most not all abraham is patient with his story buildup he carefully lays groundwork for every twist and turn this might be a deterrent for some who want action packed fantasies trust me when i say the wait for big things to happen in this series is worth your time the king s blood gets 5 out of 5 stars the second book is the daylight war book three of peter v brett s demon cycle this book was one of my most anticipated releases of 2013 and i have to say that it let me down in almost every way possible i ve had several weeks to think about the book since i finished it and so can now separate the mixed feelings i had after its end i hope i can do so without insult to the author i do think brett is among the best of our current crop of fantasy writers and enjoyed the previous installments in the series immensely the biggest problem was that the plot wasn t advanced hardly at all book 2 suffered this problem as well retelling a large portion of the story from another character s point of view in the last book it paid off enough that i didn t mind all that much it was just too boring to do it a third time also spoiler the daylight war the prophesied war that this book gets its title from never happens why did brett mislead readers so much with the title the sex was way too gratuitous for my comfort i think the daylight porn would have been a more apt description of the book and lastly the cliffhanger ending felt a bit smug in its cliffhangeriness the daylight war gets 3 out of 5 stars i hope that this portion of the story will feel more natural by the time the series is completed that s all posted by jordan at 9 10 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book reviews daniel abraham epic fantasy peter v brett the daylight war the king s blood monday march 4 2013 blogging blogging no time for blogging really i don t have any time posted by jordan at 9 22 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday february 9 2013 mini reviews 3 i ve been so busy writing that i don t have a lot of time or energy to come up with creative blogs so here are some more small reviews if you re a fan of epic fantasy or sword and sorcery then you ll want to check out all of these books i m reviewing this week onward first i want to tell you a little about the scar a literary fantasy by sergey and marina dyachenko it just came out translated from tor last year i think it originally came out in the late 90 s the scar is an amazing book it resonates well with classics like the count of monte cristo and les miserables it is a beautiful tale about a man who must overcome the most despicable wretch he knows himself egert is the man he is the most confident the most skilled at arms the best leader and the best looking man in his city a city in which physical prowess is admired and praised above all else egert always wins until a stranger with a sword comes to town anyway egert loses his first duel and flees home in terror and shame what follows is a redemption story full of poetic prose deep insight into the human condition love and above all else forgiveness the scar gets 5 out of 5 stars don t miss this one next up is the way of shadows by brent weeks weeks has been gaining popularity over the years and rumor has it will soon take over the world with his awesomeness awesomeness aside twos is weeks debut novel and my first taste of his writing i have to say that it was one brutal captivating helluva story it is not for the squeamish and young readers you should probably avoid it the only thing i didn t like about twos were some character names i can honestly say i enjoyed every other part the story is about a boy who grows up in the violent slums of a city where the weak are ground into the mud and the strong rule without pity he believes there is only one way out of his situation apprentice with the city s most infamous and feared assassin that is the basic plot but the book is full of wonderful character development tense action political intrigue and cool magic this is one of those books that make me so happy i m an epic fantasy fan beware the way of shadows is for adults it is violent and dark and unapologetic that said i don t want to overstate its content i find it comparable to a game of thrones or best served cold content wise i give the book 5 out of 5 stars lastly i wanted to tell you about the red knight by miles cameron this too is a more adult book worth your time if you love fantasy it has some of the best battle scenes i ve ever read in fiction cameron who also writes historical fiction under his real name christian cameron is a medieval expert his knowledge lends an authenticity to the trk that is unmatched in fantasy i ve never read a fantasy in which the life of a knight has been so meticulously detailed i was worried going in that this fact would bog the story down with boring long winded info dumps this isn t the case cameron has a strong sense of pacing that keeps the story moving forward the red knight is about the leader of a mercenary troop hired by an abbess to solve a monster murder it soon turns into an all out siege battle with the continued existence of a kingdom at stake monsters mages and men clash in this brilliant tale this is the beginning of a five book series its huge scope makes it feel like the penultimate book in a series i am eager to see where cameron takes us i have some issues with the book its alternate christian reality was a hard one to swallow at first in a way it felt like lazy world building i ve read on the author s website why he chose to use christianity and am now okay with it the good news is that the story overcomes my issues with it also the frequent switching of points of view was annoying i d have preferred cameron using george r r martin s format of one pov per chapter it would still allow him to tell a story with a large cast of characters but also give readers significant chunks of time inside one character s head the red knight gets 4 5 out of 5 stars and there you have it all good ratings this time around i just wanted to add that i listened to all of these books through audible the narrators of each were superb now try one of these out for yourself posted by jordan at 10 02 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book reviews brent weeks epic fantasy literary fantasy miles cameron mini reviews sword and sorcery the red knight the scar the way of shadows friday february 1 2013 so how s my goal of writing three novels this year coming it s only a month into 2013 but i think it s important to regularly review writing goals set after the new year i had a huge goal this year to write three novels the first due by march 31st well so far i ve written 24 600 words of this first novel that s a little under a third of my 80 000 word goal what does this mean it means i m on track to hit my goal by the end of march it also means that i ve got to stretch and get 30 000 words written during february can i do it sure hope so as to the rest of my three novel goal this year i ve already started pre planning novel number two it will be another ya fantasy set in the same world as this first one a generation later i have dreams of several series taking place in this same world you might call that cheating to repurpose world building but i call it being economical with my time book three is a vague idea in the back of my brain so there s still some thinking to do for that one but that won t even be started until septemberish how are your goals going so far this year i hope you re reaching and surpassing them posted by jordan at 8 10 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels goals writing life older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me jordan i m a writer aspiring to publish professionally my writing is all over the place at least within science fiction and fantasy i write epic fantasy sword and sorcery ya space opera and middle grade space opera one day i d like to write mormon westerns i have a beautiful wife and daughter and have worked as a gilder and cnc carver in a frame shop for the past 10 years hoping to write full time before i m 40 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