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Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)
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2017
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Ravencry (Raven's Mark, #2)
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Crowfall (Raven's Mark, #3)
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2019
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Daughter of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles, #1)
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Traitor of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles, #2)
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Art of War
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To See a Monster (Raven's Mark, #0.1)
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Witch Queen of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles, #3)
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I wish there was a more useful answer than "I just make it up," but unfortunately that's the truth. Redwinter's magic system is vaguely tied to Existentialism and my own understanding of physics, but overall it's magic. Most world building is somethi
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~a very shiny horse ~secrets of death-magic ~arguably the Best villain ever ~still shipping my OT3 ~the Heels (you’ll know them when you see them) *Spoilers for book one, Daughter of Redwinter!* Daughter of Redwinter was a huge surprise for me on" Read more of this review » |
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None of This Is True
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Spoiler free review. I received an ARC from the publisher. The Silverblood Promise is a vibrant, enjoyable cut-and-thrust back-alley adventure that traverses the seedy underworld of Saphrona, a city of corrupt politicians, underworld kings, mercenarie ...more |
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"Very original dark fantasy with weird creatures and an interesting magic system. To me, this read like a cross between a detective story and military fantasy with plenty of action, twists, and enough heart that I hesitate to call it grim dark, althou"
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“I saw you stand,” I said. “Saw your courage, back at Twelve. Saw the steel in your will, the power you command. You say there’s nothing of woman about you? You aren’t some painted vase, delicate and useless. You’re a fucking lioness. The strongest damn thing that ever lived. There’s nothing of you but woman.”
― Blackwing
― Blackwing
“Corruption doesn’t take root in isolation, it embeds itself where the soil is fertile.”
― Blackwing
― Blackwing
“The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast is naught but a scramble through stinging, tearing briars before a naked, shameful collapse as the flesh gives out. And yet in the bright eyes of every newborn, there lies a spark, a potential for goodness, the possibility of a life worth living. That spark deserves its chance. And though most of them will turn out to be as worthless as the parents who sired them, while the cruelty of the earth will tell them to release their innocence and join in the drawing of daggers, every now and then one manages to clutch to its beauty and refuses to release it into the dark.”
― Blackwing
― Blackwing
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3rd Quarter 2018 - Fantasy
Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft, 448p
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, 352p
To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo, 342p
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, 304p
The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera, 526p
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory, 288p
A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne, 624p
The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton, 576p
Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck, 114p
Godblind by Anna Stephens, 384p
Inda by Sherwood Smith, 576p
Blackwing by Ed McDonald, 360p
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King, 427p
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter, 295p
Torn by Rowenna Miller, 480p
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