Wow! This book was better, and different, than expected. It isn't just another book on craft. It's barely even a reference guide. It has essays packed with valuable tips written by authors I love. Sure, a few of these were not in my niche, but the ones that were blew my mind. I could not recommend t...
Reseña en español de [b:La noche de los cuchillos|13561192|La noche de los cuchillos (Malaz El Imperio, #1)|Ian C. Esslemont|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1332745847s/13561192.jpg|446887] en el blog: Click Aquí.Night of the Knives is the first book written by Esslemont and the first instalment in t...
I'm giving this book four stars because I enjoyed pretty much every word in it. So why not five? Because for the most part I did not come away from the book with any great insights that would change the course of my writing. It was a very entertaining read, especially Orson Scott Cards' section, ...
I'll have a proper review up later but I just wanted to mention the atrocious editing of this edition. It should be a crime that anything so poorly edited ever saw the light of day. The examples are too numerous to list but here are three:"Bride" instead of "bridge."Chapter nineteen's heading was "I...
A tepid 3 stars for this third installment in The Malazan Empire series, and that because I’m hopelessly enspelled by the Imperial Warren. It’s not that Esslemont is a bad writer – in the right context, he’s quite readable – it’s that the sprawling, multi-POV format that the series has taken doesn’t...
I really enjoyed this book, a culmination of a lot of the back-stories of the Malazan world. However, too little of the back stories was included, and there were a lot of times when supporting characters (with way more knowledge than I of this world) were reacting to things for reasons I was not qui...
Return of the Crimson Guard ("RCG" from now on) is the second volume in Ian Esslemont's chronicle of the Malazan Empire (the first, Night of Knives, was an introductory novel taking place on the night Kellanved and Dancer ascended to High House Shadow and Laseen (aka Surly) became Empress). Behind t...
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