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Tag Archives: Epic Fantasy
Witchy Eye: The First Map
I just dug this out of a box today. As epic fantasy novels are wont to do, WITCHY EYE started with a map. My son was being homeschooled at the time and his curriculum included this folding, laminated … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Dwarfs, Elves, Epic Fantasy, Home Schooling, Toni Weisskopf, Trolls, Witchy Eye
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Bookshelf: Son of the Black Sword
Larry Correia takes a turn away from guns and monsters (which are awesome) toward India-inspired epic fantasy heavy with prophecy, curses, dynastic politics, oaths, demons, and chivalric orders. This is great stuff. Son of the Black Sword tells the story … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Epic Fantasy, Larry Correia, Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, Son of the Black Sword
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Bookshelf: The Seer
The Seer is a gripping epic fantasy novel about the curse of talent and the overreaching of power. Sonia Orin Lyris’s debut novel The Seer follows young Amarta, who has a limited ability to see the future. The future is … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Trial of Intentions
The characters in Peter Orullian’s Trial of Intentions curse by gods who are not there; dead gods, mute gods, deaf gods. This is a world abandoned by its creating gods, the Framers, who also sealed humanity apart from the rogue god Maldea … Continue reading
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Tagged Epic Fantasy, Peter Orullian, The Unremembered, Trial of Intentions, Vault of Heaven
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Bookshelf: Bloodletting
The Affinities Cycle is an epic fantasy saga in a Farlandesque or Sandersonian vein… 5/5 stars, and bring on the sequels! As in Sanderson’s and Farland’s most famous books, magic here is schematic, tied to an ordering of the world, its … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, Epic Fantasy, Mark Ryan, Peter J. Wacks, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: Valcoria
It’s hard losing your father, even if he dies in an act of great heroism, but Sittrell Trauel has no time to mourn. The city of Amigus, entrusted to his care, falls to treachery and is taken by the aggressive … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackpowder Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Jason King, Rayguns, Valcoria
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Bookshelf: Betrayal’s Shadow
The Mahaelian Kingdom of Avidar, ruled by her mind-dominating and omnipresent king, emerged victor from a war five hundred years ago against the pale, inhuman, magic-Singing Elvayn. Since the war, Mahaelian Silencers have kept the slave class of Elvayn in … Continue reading
