by Ken Liu
Lord Garu, you compare yourself to a weed?” Cogo Yelu frowned. “Not just any weed, Cogzy. A dandelion is a strong but misunderstood flower.” Remembering his courtship with Jia, Kuni felt his eyes grow warm. “It cannot be defeated: Just when a gardener thinks he has won and eradicated it from his law...
Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum. If you didn’t already know this, you will after reading The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. This fantasy novel begins with the death of an emperor who had hoped to completely transform his world through the next several years of near constant warfare as various warlor...
I gave this book a little more than one hundred pages to capture me but it never did. The writing is hopelessly clumsy and the dialogues inane. The author's prose has the unfortunate effect of making the characters lifeless and uninteresting. I have little sense of the milieux that produce Kuni Garu...
What a good book! A real tasty read. I enjoyed it so much! You know, the word exotic is looked down upon these days, in some quarters, as some kind of insult, but to this gal, brought up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the setting of this epic story was very exotic to me. I kept thinking that it h...
I apparently was not as thrilled with this book as many other readers. It was well written and (for the most part) interesting read throughout the book but not something that really made me say "Wow". I have seen several other comments refer to the characters in the book as flawed and complex but I ...
I apparently was not as thrilled with this book as many other readers. It was well written and (for the most part) interesting read throughout the book but not something that really made me say "Wow". I have seen several other comments refer to the characters in the book as flawed and complex but I ...
Disclaimer: I received an ARC of this title from the publisher in exchange for review consideration. While I make every attempt to avoid spoilers, please be aware that an ARC synopsis, press release, or review request may disclose details that are not revealed in the published cover blurb. The Gra...
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