by Elspeth Cooper
I give it two stars because the beginning was good and the magic premise was pretty cool, but ugh, did this book crash and burn!I so wanted to love it. I adore Carol Berg, so when I read the description and thought I felt a hint of her style in it, I was practically bouncing for joy. 100 pages in, I...
The problem with being a poor book hoarder is that the library eventually wants their book back. I still hadn't managed to get into it and all my the renewals were used up. It was make or break time. I sat down determined to get lost in Songs for a night.100 pages later and I realized why I hadn't b...
Religious persecution against those with magic. Yes that always brings forth emotions in me. They are the perfect baddies, sitting in their cold towers preaching about salvation and hunting innocents with magic in their blood, even if those loves the Goddess just as much as the rest.We got Gair, our...
On Amazon they like this book to Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, all I have to say to this is; not even close. In Name of the Wind the beautifully written words jump out at you and the dialog flowed smooth, here in Songs of the Earth...not so much. Don't get me wrong, Songs of the Earth did ha...
This book seems to have gathered a lot of hype. One of the editors from Gollancz even went so far as to put it on the same level as those by Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie and Patrick Rothfuss. Well, it isn't.Everything you need to know about the book can be found in this SFX review.I did write more, ...
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