[Tiste Simeon]

It's disappointing how often it happens, quite honestly...

[polishgenius]

Abyss, on 26 March 2026 - 02:56 PM, said:

Abyss, on 25 March 2026 - 04:04 AM, said:

polishgenius, on 23 March 2026 - 07:31 PM, said:

Read Notorious Sorcerer. With a title like that how can you not? Great book too.


Pretty much exactly fits the description Abyss used for Eli Montpress tbh, very much seems in the same vein. The whole series is one of my favourite new reads of the last couple years or so.

eta: I feel like I should challenge Abyss to a recommendation swap now. I read Eli Monpress and he reads Notorious Sorcerer. En guard!

Challenge accepted. HAVE AT THEE!!!

(one i finish Clocktaur and assuming Richard Morgan's just released No Man's Land remains irritatingly unavailable in Canada)

polishgenius, on 25 March 2026 - 08:13 PM, said:

Looks like I'm gonna have to get the first three ombnibus. Partly because the collection only costs four quid more than each individually, and partly because the single books have covers so bad I'd be embarrassed to have them even though I read on ebook and no-one would see it.


Got Clocktaur on deck too, lol. But finishing Rogba Payne's Testimony of Blood is the first order of business.

k i'm ready, got some audible credits to burn and i feel the need, the need for read....
LET'S DO THIS


(like, whenever you're set, like nbd....)

Well, I bought it, anyway. Ready to go.




I also couldn't decide which series-starting epic fantasy book to get - The Book of Fallen Leaves by AS Tamaki, a Japanese-culture-based effort that just came out, or Birth of a Dinasty by Chinaza Bado, another of the West-African wave of epic fantasy that's been coming out the last few years. So I got both.

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 26 March 2026 - 12:08 PM, said:

Holey moley.

JL Odom's first two Land Of Exile books — By Blood, By Salt and A Haunt for Jackals — are so, so, so insanely good.

If you have not yet read them...please do. I don't even know what to compare them to, but everything is executed flawlessly. The plotting, the pacing, the characters, the history, the prose (oh man, the prose!), and the twists.

It's like GGK meets Gemmell meets Erikson meets Hobb (sorry, yes, these characters get wrung out like sponges).

(Oh, and she won the SPFBO 2025).

Yeah, I started this a while back. Put it aside for a bit because I wasn't really in the mood for that particular kind of emotional damage, but it's clearly very very good.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 26 March 2026 - 04:01 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 26 March 2026 - 03:15 PM, said:

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 26 March 2026 - 12:08 PM, said:

Holey moley.

JL Odom's first two Land Of Exile books — By Blood, By Salt and A Haunt for Jackals — are so, so, so insanely good.

If you have not yet read them...please do. I don't even know what to compare them to, but everything is executed flawlessly. The plotting, the pacing, the characters, the history, the prose (oh man, the prose!), and the twists.

It's like GGK meets Gemmell meets Erikson meets Hobb (sorry, yes, these characters get wrung out like sponges).

(Oh, and she won the SPFBO 2025).

Dang it man I don't have time for more books and I can't believe you would

Oh hey they're only £8 for both on Kindle so I've snapped them up!

it's always nice to watch you break like a twig.

Tiste Simeon, on 26 March 2026 - 04:20 PM, said:

It's disappointing how often it happens, quite honestly...

Counterpoint: no it isn't.

[QuickTidal]

polishgenius, on 26 March 2026 - 04:51 PM, said:

I also couldn't decide which series-starting epic fantasy book to get - The Book of Fallen Leaves by AS Tamaki, a Japanese-culture-based effort that just came out,

Heard nothing but great things about this debut.

[Tiste Simeon]

Finished Oathbringer! Will post some thoughts on the dedthread later. Going to read some stand-alones including non fiction that I've been gathering on my Kindle and take a break from the Stormlight Archive.

Also finished Dust of Dreams on audio. I enjoyed this one and actually I thought the narrator did some of his best work in this one. Still not his biggest fan but there were some excellent moments I enjoyed in this one.

[Abyss]

polishgenius, on 26 March 2026 - 04:51 PM, said:

Abyss, on 26 March 2026 - 02:56 PM, said:

Abyss, on 25 March 2026 - 04:04 AM, said:

polishgenius, on 23 March 2026 - 07:31 PM, said:

Read Notorious Sorcerer. With a title like that how can you not? Great book too.


Pretty much exactly fits the description Abyss used for Eli Montpress tbh, very much seems in the same vein. The whole series is one of my favourite new reads of the last couple years or so.

eta: I feel like I should challenge Abyss to a recommendation swap now. I read Eli Monpress and he reads Notorious Sorcerer. En guard!

Challenge accepted. HAVE AT THEE!!!

(one i finish Clocktaur and assuming Richard Morgan's just released No Man's Land remains irritatingly unavailable in Canada)

polishgenius, on 25 March 2026 - 08:13 PM, said:

Looks like I'm gonna have to get the first three ombnibus. Partly because the collection only costs four quid more than each individually, and partly because the single books have covers so bad I'd be embarrassed to have them even though I read on ebook and no-one would see it.


Got Clocktaur on deck too, lol. But finishing Rogba Payne's Testimony of Blood is the first order of business.

k i'm ready, got some audible credits to burn and i feel the need, the need for read....
LET'S DO THIS

(like, whenever you're set, like nbd....)

Well, I bought it, anyway. Ready to go.


...

took a stroll at lunchtime, i'm one chapter in, do we need a ded-thread?

[polishgenius]

Might be worth one.