Title:  Gardens of the Moon
Author:  Steven Erikson
Publisher:  Tor Books
# of Pages:  489

Book One of the Malazan Book of the Fallen

Amazon review available here.

Rating:  8/10

Favorite Line:  "Every god falls at a mortal's hands.  Such is the only end to immortality."

From Booklist
In the first of a projected 10 volumes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen ( Read more... )

Title:  The Grail and the Ring
Author:  Teresa Edgerton
Publisher:  Ace Books
# of Pages:  About 450

Rating:  6.5/10

From Booklist
This sequel to The Castle of the Silver Wheel has the vice of not being terribly intelligible if you don't know the first book; indeed, it practically demands a genealogical chart. Otherwise, it's a fine exploration of the ( Read more... )

Title:  The Castle of the Silver Wheel
Author:  Teresa Edgerton
Publisher:  Ace Books
# of Pages:  About 300

Rating:  7/10

The first in Edgerton's Chronicles of Celydonn trilogy, this book picks up very soon after the Green Lion Trilogy ends.  It also includes several of the same characters- mainly, Tryffin and Gwenlliant.  Sadly, no summary is ( Read more... )

Title:  Swords for Hire
Author:  Will Allen
Publisher:  Centerpunch Press
# of Pages:  168

Rating:  9/10
Amazon review available here.

Favorite line:  "Sam, where on earth did you find this uncouth, unpredictable man?" said Melinda.  After a brief pause, Sam said, "Uh, right here."

From Centerpunch Press:

A new national award-winning book, Swords for Hire ( Read more... )

Title:  Daughter of the Blood (First in the Black Jewels Trilogy)
Author:  Anne Bishop
Publisher:  Roc
# of Pages:  412

Rating:  8/10
Amazon Review available here.

Favorite line:  "Do you think me such a fool that I don't recognize what she is, what she'll become?  She's magic, Cassandra.  A single flower blooming in an endless desert."

From Amazon.com:
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Continuing to change my formatting until I find one that I like :-)

Title: Paladin of Souls
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Publisher: HarperTorch
# of Pages: 496

Rating:  9/10

Favorite line:  "Instructing you, sweet Ista, would be like teaching a falcon to walk up to its prey.  It might with great effort be done, but one would end with a very footsore ( Read more... )

Title: Elantris
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Tor Books
# of Pages: 489

Rating: 8/10

Favorite Quote: "Prince Raoden of Arelon awoke early that morning, completely unaware that he had been damned for all eternity."

I heard so much about this book from two people whose opinions I highly respect, that I had to pick it up and read it. Epic ( Read more... )

Title:  Daughter of the Forest
Author:  Juliet Marillier
Publisher:  Tor Books
# of Pages:  400

Rating:  4/10

Meh.  I don't know why this book got such great ratings on Amazon.  I thought it was distinctly like many other romance novels- though I suppose the added dimension of having six swans for brothers added a little to the plot.

I read this book for ( Read more... )

Title:  Queen of Swords
Author:  Judith Tarr
Publisher:  Forge Books
# of Pages:  464

Rating:  DNF

Wow, yet another "Did Not Finish" for a book that I would think to be right up my alley!  And, judging by the rave Amazon reviews (5 stars almost the entire way), I'm pretty much the only person who didn't enjoy this book.

Queen of Swords takes place in ( Read more... )

Whew, August is off to a very intense start (well, 2/3 of the way through the month isn't a start, I guess). The first book is about death, the second about dying gods and the third about goodness only really knows what :-)

Title: The Mercy of Thin Air
Author: Ronlyn Domingue
Publisher: Washington Square
# of Pages: 336

Rating: 10/10

Amazon review ( Read more... )