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Øyvind

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reviewed THE CITY OF BRASS by S. A. Chakraborty (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)

S. A. Chakraborty: THE CITY OF BRASS (Paperback, Harper Voyager)

"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy …

Djinn and middle eastern fantasy

Nahri an young woman stumbles into an interesting world of djinn and magic as we discover more and more of this interesting world. The world building is good, and the characters are interesting. The story is good and it has it's surprises from time to time. All in all a good book that quite a few people would enjoy.

reviewed Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

Brandon Sanderson: Wind and Truth (2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future …

The final book of the first half of Stormlight Archive

The world in Stormlight Archive is an interesting one and we really start to see the larger Cosmere in this book. The world building is expanded nicely with both new things and also getting an history lessons of important events on Roshar. Along with the world building is the character development really good and feels natural. And I really enjoyed the story arc with Kaladin and Szeth, to bee fair Kaladin is probably my favorite character in this series. Alodin is another character that I really enjoyed the journey of in this book, with his defense of Azimir, and how that changes him.

This book ends the first story arc of the Stormlight Archive and it manages to tie up quite a few story arches nicely while also setting up quite a few other story lines to be continued in the next arc. I'm really looking forward to see …

James Islington: The Strength of the Few (Hardcover, Text Publishing)

Omne trium perfectum

The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as …

The Cataclysm is approaching and Vis Telimus does things to prevent it

Content warning This review will contain some small spoilers regarding the end of the Will of the many. If you enjoyed the will of the many then you'll enjoy this one as well

James Islington: The Will of the Many (2023, Simon & Schuster)

The Will of the Many is an epic fantasy novel written by Australian author James …

An awesome start to the Hiararchy

I know most people classify it as fantasy, however I kind of look more at it like science fantasy. Caten is a really interesting world inspired by the Roman Republic. The world building is detailed but not overly so, and there are still many mysteries to be solved in the future books. The ending really spices things up in regards to world building. Vis Telimus the protagonist and the characters he interact with during the books are all well described and interesting, and they have great character developments during the story. I really look forward to see where this story is going and I'd recomend this book to any fantasy or science fiction lover.

The Witcher is back

I really like this story, just following one character Geralt instead of 3 as in the later books, makes everything flow better for me. The world is still brilliant and having this shorter more contained story is really nice. The story takes place in between the final short story and the main novel, however it's no pre-requisit having read any of the other Withcer books. Most people that enjoy fantasy will enjoy this book.

Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Anguish and Anarchy (2023, Cengage Gale)

An end to Legacy of Orisha books

This is my least favorite book of the three books in the trilogy, that's not to say that the book is bad though. Keep in mind that there are some years since I read book two in the series. The story flows well, but in some way's feel a bit rushed, I'd love to have some more time spend developing the plot, characters and the world. We get to explore new areas but we just seem to scratch the surface of them. The characters are interesting to follow and they have some good development through the story although it suffers a little bit for power-creep which unfortunately lessens the impact of the bad guys in the book. Definitely worth reading if you've enjoyed the other books in the series.