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of facetime in this book but you are gonna really feel something for him by the turn of the page that shows some real talent in writing in my humble opinion you meet a character in the book named mikulov that blew away my expectations for him he does some really cool things in this book shhhhh no spoilers dammit as far as world building goes i think kenyon had it pretty easy fans of the series already have a decent picture of what sanctuary looks like in their minds so were dealing with more like settings and atmosphere here and being the wordsmith that our author is the scenes were perfectly described in there dismal and dark ways nate kenyon paints a formidable black cloud over the heads of his readers in diablo iii the order a cloud that will have you on the edge of your seat up to the very end wondering if evil has finally overcome the heavens themselves you oughta read it to find out thanks nate kenyon you ve made a horadrim initiate out of me for sure 4 out of 5 dashingly debonair devils with disgustingly long ummmm have you played to the end of dante s inferno don t look man that is gross p s don t forget to check out all the cool things going on over at the fantasy tavern on facebook where we can discuss this book and many many more things fantasy related posted by travis at 12 11 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels nate kenyon review monday july 2 2012 the fantasy tavern is now open for business the fantasy tavern good morning all today i need a virtual paperboy to stand on the street corner and hawk the latest news a little while back a long time fellow blogging buddy of mine ross from cursed armada contacted me about starting up a fantasy fan based facebook page to share all the things we weren t getting to discuss on our own individual blogs and to hopefully reach a bigger fan base to really get people talking about the things we have been enjoying for years and years from the moment he mentioned it i have been very excited about this project blogger has been a great tool for me to share my thoughts on some of the books i read but i don t think i reach very many people i read slow and thoroughly and that leaves big gaps in the frequency of my posts for me personally for the present time i am still going to post my reviews to the various books i read here on writing ex libris i will be linking to these reviews on the the fantasy tavern and hope to generate lots of good talk about them and many many more things over there i spend a large amount of time reading some very well put together reviews on some very well put together blogs we would like to help get these great blogs more exposure and i think i can help a little with the fantasy tavern being a meeting place to bring all these reviews together for people to read and hopefully discuss to some degree and that s not all along with all the latest in upcoming books reviews and great discussion we are posting about all things fantasy related authors bloggers book reviews comics movies games board and console tattoos and many many more realms of the fantasy universe so stop on by we have a few things up already with a whole bunch more on the way so go on over and like our page and comment on anything that catches your eye then go spread the word about two sellswords starting a virtual bar on facebook were not only going from coast to coast here people we are talking about massing the world over posted by travis at 6 10 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday may 27 2012 review of the troupe by robert jackson bennett book description from goodreads vaudeville mad mercenary dreamy and absurd a world of clashing cultures and ferocious showmanship and wickedly delightful deceptions but sixteen year old pianist george carole has joined vaudeville for one reason only to find the man he suspects to be his father the great heironomo silenus yet as he chases down his father s troupe he begins to understand that their performances are strange even for vaudeville for wherever they happen to tour the very nature of the world seems to change because there is a secret within silenus s show so ancient and dangerous that it has won him many powerful enemies and it s not until after he joins them that george realizes the troupe is not simply touring they are running for their very lives and soon george is as well please forgive if i add all the blue material i can to this review of magnanimous proportions i can only attest that i have been chewing the scenery for more than a few years hopefully it will be the freak act that i see it to be in my head enter stage right a strapping and upstanding young lad of only sixteen years who goes by the name of george carole george has many talents and secrets he s going to share a few with you in these pages you re about to read and in the end a lucky few will know what it is to see first hand what magic mystery and myth truly are but i digress i am one of the lucky ones books have always been a part of my life and maybe that in itself is what gives me the ability to let go to pick up a book such as this one and be transported to another place another time another life you see it all the time advertisements for libraries transformed into gateways into other worlds right about now the theme song to reading rainbow should all be making it s way through the cobwebbed or maybe not so cobwebbed parts of your brain i can be anything da da da take a look it s in a book it s reading rainbow ahhhh the good old days it s funny after so many re watchings of star trek tng i can no longer imagine levar burton narrating reading rainbow without his visor on on with the show be wary my faithful readers this book is going to take you on an adventure ride that may leave you a bit unhinged reflecting back on the various parts of this novel i am even now struck by the fact that i can t really say that i have any parts of it that i did not enjoy it is what a stand alone novel should be a beginning of sorts a middle and an end also of sorts maybe it is just my coffee addled brain but a good story blends these so well that you don t know which is which and in the end after the last page has been turned you realize that the book you have just read really came full circle in the pages of this book you can attest to only following the life and goings on of george for a few months but good writing will break the barrier of time and you will more likely feel as though you have yourself been traveling with the troupe for years and years i applaud the fantastic elements of this story truly for what they are i revel in them breath them in take them straight out of the novel and make a playground of them in my head so sorry bit overboard right there the writing lends itself to drawing vivid images of every scene in this made for my head movie of sorts get me no no probably not the characters in this book are unlike most likely anyone you will ever have the chance to meet in your real day to day life and i am so so glad i have had the chance to have met them there is an air of mystery in the whole cast which added to the mystery of the overall plot leads to some enticing reading but as the story treads on you will become familiar with these people almost intimately so the characters that make up the the actual troupe are all amazing each one with their own set of dynamics that only after a short time opens them up so you can see them for who they truly are i have to say that heironomo harry as he is referred to in the book is probably my favorite i would pine just as george does in the book for hours spent with him shoot i want to do a mind meld with him just so i can know everything he does trust me i think you will too secondly this other person in this other place was grandly fleshed out so that i just could not put the book down while she was in it i have been waiting my whole life to meet her in the end i guess i won t have the chance after what silenus does to her not being able to tip the secret jar pains me so the book as a whole is a true testament to the old adage things aren t always what they seem the reveals keep coming the whole way through the book and it seems that the wow factor just keeps growing honestly if it weren t for persistent schedules and mundane things like sleeping you could sit and read this novel from cover to cover it is just that good just like sitting and watching a fireworks show or even possibly the best magic performance you have ever seen you will not want them to end robert jackson bennett my stage hat is off to you you have really put on the show of a lifetime in this book of yours this story of george and the troupe that he ultimately becomes a part of opened up doors in my mind that have been left unopened for a very long time thank you for giving me the opportunity to travel the country and the spaces between with the troupe now i just need to get my hands on your other books first up mr shivers i believe as is the case with most theme park rides this one comes with a height requirement let s say 60 silenus has a bit of a potty mouth so check your vocabulary requirements at the gate 5 out of 5 benevolently beckoned boggarts bran dishing berries of mind bending substance and origin is it just me or would jim croce make the perfect silenus if you put him in a top hat and checkered pants posted by travis at 11 25 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels review robert jackson bennett thursday may 17 2012 review of scourge of the betrayer by jeff salyards book description from goodreads many tales are told of the syldoon empire and its fearsome soldiers who are known throughout the world for their treachery and atrocities some say that the syldoon eat virgins and babies or perhaps their own mothers arkamondos a bookish young scribe suspects that the syldoon s dire reputation may have grown in the retelling but he s about to find out for himself hired to chronicle the exploits of a band of rugged syldoon warriors arki finds himself both frightened and fascinated by the men s enigmatic leader captain braylar killcoin a secretive mercurial figure haunted by the memories of those he s killed with his deadly flail braylar has already disposed of at least one impertinent scribe and arki might be next archiving the mundane doings of millers and merchants was tedious but at least it was safe as arki heads off on a mysterious mission into parts unknown in the company of the coarse bloody minded syldoon he is promised a chance to finally record an historic adventure well worth the telling but first he must survive the experience a gripping military fantasy in the tradition of glen cook scourge of the betrayer explores the brutal politics of empire and the searing impact of violence and dark magic on a man s soul before i get into specifics of the beast that is scourge of the betrayer let me start off by gushing half my blood supply out of my partially severed head from craning my neck to read this in the wee hours of the night just to boast about how good it is sorry if that last statement was a tad on the graphic side but if you are going to pick up this book it s things like that that are waiting for you i don t read reviews prior to reading a book i wait till after i finish them sure i will scan a few lines blurbs and what have you that a base network of people and places that i have strategically scoured and suffered putting together to achieve the necessary niceties that my fellow reading buddies i relate to well in reading choices have bled their hard pondered thoughts onto the world that may have been the longest run on sentence in the history of run on sentences but i am a rebel and you blessed reader are just going to have to like it sure this work is in the tradition of glen cook with his military fantasy it has the grit of battle you will find in a dan abnett or joe abercrombie book but it is not by those people either this is jeff salyards and you would do well to remember his name there are some works like this that although good don t quite hit the mark i tell you now folks this is what dead center looks like i cannot be certain as to the level or the amount of time and effort that went into this story but if i were to guess my money is on a great deal and although it isn t the expansive at least not yet titles like sanderson jordan or martin put out rest assured that salyards knows his tale frontwards and backwards it s tight writing and does well with pace plot and some other p word that i know i am forgetting to throw in there the line space directly above and directly below this sentence is to show emphasis on the next two sentences the fighting battle action sequences and narration of our main character arki during said scenes are spot on the mechanics of each are honed well oiled and bite with their own brutal reality we all read things differently based on a thousand different variables that i cannot begin to get into here so in the end it s simple read what you like i have been watching horror reading horror bizarro fantasy stuff you wouldn t even think can come out of somebody s head see carlon mellick iii and yes in some cases experiencing these same things with shock values that are pretty high up on a scale that doesn t even exist so yeah when someone said it s gritty or that was some scary shit dude well i kinda gotta just nod my head hope they don t catch my crafty ability to roll my eyes without actually rolling my eyes and think i am going to have to experience it for myself and see there yeah t hat doesn t even cover it let me tell you that this is a new story that has not been done before the dynamics of our characters are complex and meaty and i like it just the contrast alone between our young scrive and his charge is a bear trap in waiting for good interesting dialogue there are twists and surprises in this book that took me totally off guard i laughed out loud several times and even once put the book down totally dumb founded and said that didn t just happen did it in conclusion salyards has created a well of opportunity here for the next couple volumes in this series seeing how the series name is bloodsounders s arc we may be in for more than a trilogy and that does nothing but make me smile there is a lot of directions this could go and i can t wait for the next installment i can t wait to check out braylar s sister wait that didn t sound right that was almost like hey killcoin would you mind if i ahhh checked out your sister probably got me killed just now no it s going to be awesome thank you jeff for a great great read i will be recommending this to all my literary friends and probably even ones that are not 5 out of 5 bloody sword swinging syldoons singing sweet songs over sour wine this book is definitely deserving 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