Her Majesty's Dragon came very highly recommended to me by two friends. Somehow, me (being an idiot) managed to not pick it up until it dropped in my lap. Seeing that my friends seems to have a pretty good idea of what my tastes in books are, clearly I need to move all their recommendations up the list.

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Well, I'm frequently game to try new books by authors I have previously liked even if the immediate premise seems a little counter to my usual tastes. I'm generally not keen on first person narration by female orphans in books which feature magic, due to a dreadful overexposure to "urban fantasy." Thank goodness the first chapter or seven I read in ( Read more... )

After lusting after Leviathan last year and finding my initial "oooo!" reaction rewarded with awesome, my wonderful fabulous friend let me borrow her ARC of Behemoth.

( Intrigue in Istanbul (not Constantinople) )

Well I know that one of my big complaints about a large chunk of the fantasy genre has to do with how Eurocentric it seems to be most of the time. Sometimes one gets tired of elves, pixies and trolls, and especially vampires and lycanthropes in places like the Americas, which have their own set of supernatural creepy crawlies... that hardly ever ( Read more... )

Note: this is a review for an advance reader copy. Some things may vary from the final print. The book will come out October 2009.

This book definitely reads like the first in a trilogy. It rather conspicuously lacks an ending. How I wish that someone would write a decent stand-alone fantasy novel...

Anyway, it takes a very very long time to get to ( Read more... )