Excellent series, excellent author. This is the best fantasy book/series I have read in a VERY long time. The characters are well drawn out, there is good development in many of them, and my favorite part is that Pehov changes some things around in his world that "mix-it up" a little regarding el...
This is a famous russian author, or so I'm told... I've read the Night Watch ect books so my experience with Russian fantasy authors is a good one so far (although they do dark dark dark fantasy like noone else except the skandinavians...have you ever read Let The Right One In??) .This particular...
It obviously didn’t like the idea of being carried down into the murky gloom of the world underground. I stopped twice to look back. The first time was when I’d only walked a hundred and fifty paces along the corridor. I just wanted to take one last look at the sunlight. A long, long way behind m...
To my surprise, the runt did not hit back. It seemed that for the time being he had decided to stay out of any scuffles, since he didn’t have the upper hand. And Layen and I were not too fond of the degenerate. Midge and Bamut behaved as meek as lambs and little by little the atmosphere stopped b...
There was practically no light at all and I had to keep my hand on the wall in order not to miss a sudden turn. The ceiling danced up and down like an earthworm trying to fly. Three times I hit the top of my head against it, but then after I took a few more steps I could stretch my hand up as far...