https://youtu.be/bitO0BtQEjQ Hey folks, I'm back this week with another video review of a fantasy novel! This one is Mike Shackle's 2019 dark fantasy debut, We Are The Dead. I took a liking to it - as you'll find out when you check the video. As always, I would appreciate you subscribing and liking the clip... Continue Reading →
Series: The Black Iron Legacy # 1Published by: OrbitGenre: Dark Fantasy, Grimdark, High FantasyPages: 544 (kindle edition)Review Format: e-bookPurchased Copy. I enjoy playing catch-up at year’s end – time is ever a limited resource and great books fall through the cracks more often than I’d like. One such prime example is The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan,... Continue Reading →
Self-Published Genre: FantasyPages: 140Format: ebook This is an interesting short novel, whose strengths include worldbuilding, an all-encompassing sense of mystery and intrigue, plenty of misdirection and a hell of a clincher. But first, lend me your ear. It's okay, come 'ere, come a wee bit closer. I've a secret to tell you -- the only... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/nLfQAKglKrA A Plague Tale: Innocence is a remarkable third-person narrative game, telling the story of Amicia and Hugo de Rune as they evade the Inquisition during the peak of the bubonic plague in France. I am IN LOVE with the characters and horrified by the world; I think, you will be, too.
Series: The Black Iron Legacy # 2Published by: OrbitGenre: Dark Fantasy, Grimdark, High FantasyPages: 567Format: e-bookReview Copy Courtesy of NetGalley If you haven’t read The Gutter Prayer and don’t know if you want to, read my review of it here. The Gutter Prayer was an exceptional debut – no matter how hard I thought about... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp1sYfKQoXo A hundred and forty hours spent playing the Darkest Dungeon, and at least half of them spent in putting out the horrors caused by the inhabitants of the Crimson Curse DLC. Great boss design, fantastic new class - the Flagellant -- and beautiful character/environment art do not make up for the infuriating amount of... Continue Reading →
This review is posted in full over at booknest.eu! It's my longest ever review, and I'm wondering whether to publish each of the short stories as a separate blog post over here at the Reliquary. What do you think? Anyway, here goes: Abercrombie’s prose is exceptional. His First Law novels are as successful as they... Continue Reading →
Hullo, everyone, and welcome back to the recurring topic of this blog nowadays, which is indeed nothing less than the much-loved aphorism, #EverythingIsContent. This one is in video form! But if you've got preference for reading, after the embedded link, I'll also drop my script -- which is most of the vid but not all... Continue Reading →
Journal Entry The First Let it be writ: Today, an oaf of a man, a woodcutter through and through, passed by my cabin. "Where go you, axeman?" I said. "A good day to you, villain!" he said, scratching his beard. "I am on my way to cut a little girl and her granny out of... Continue Reading →
Diary Entry #215 Ah, my sweet perdition has ended! And to think that I have one of my very own Librarians to thank for it! A nice enough lad, and bright, too--to save me from the throng of half-catatonic Inquisitors--while I'm slowly roasted upon a pyre, no less! I have named this Librarian the Head... Continue Reading →
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