fuck.for the last three books i felt that DF/W was losing his touch, and maybe he was. Now though, i am proven wrong. Chaosbound is a motherfucking maelstrom of fuck yeah and heartache. DF/W mustve been going through some rough shit when he wrote this. The things that Borenson goes through are so...
The eighth book of well-done Runelords series, Wyrmling Horde just came out, and I was excited. Despite the fact that Tor set a word-count restriction on the author, resulting in a much smaller book starting with the previous Worldbinder (which resulted in a truncated feel to that ending), the se...
This book was better than the 2nd one. It still bothers me that it takes so freakin' long for everything to happen in such a short amount of time. It just seems a bit unrealistic to have the entire world change in the course of a week.However, I really enjoyed the development between Borenson and...
Overall, this series was ... ok. It wasn't great, but it didn't suck enough for me to give it away to Goodwill or to "drop in between the bleacher seats at a college game, for it to dwell amongst the refuse, garbage, diapers, beer cans and general trash that is only seen by college drug dealers,...
This following review was an assignment for a fantasy literature course at BYU.The RunelordsAuthor, Title, Facts of PublicationtThe Runelords was written by David Wolverton and published in 1998. The author used the pseudonym David Farland to market the book because he wanted it on store shelves...
Raj Ahtan has fled from Gaborn Val Orden, the prophesied and ascendant Earth King. Tricked on the field of battle by a ruse, Ahtan is far from vanquished. Bolstered by the strength, speed, stamina, charisma, and beauty of thousands of men, he moves to strike at where Gaborn is weakest, to tear do...
For some reason I almost see books of these types like cheating (and I’m also aware of what a hypocrite I will become when I finally pick up Brandon Sanderson’s new book The Alloy of Law, but it’s only because I love him most). The problem with a continuation of a series opting for the only chang...
Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. Authors of those works, such as George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, and Terry Goodkind, come immediately to mind. Add to that list David Farland, whose epic Runelords series continues now i...
More than anything, Benjamin Ravenspell wants a pet. But when he buys a mouse named Amber, he gets more than he bargained for. No sooner does Ben take her home, than Amber turns him into a mouse too. You see, Amber has magical abilities, and it so happens that Ben is a familiar, a creature that s...
“We have business inside. Lord Tantos wants one of his sorcerers to examine the corpse of the Starfarer.”The guard glanced at the dragon insignia on Chaa’s uniform, saluted, took the papers, and hurried to unlock the gates.Once inside, the guard lit a taper and offered to escort them to the cell,...
I, for one, fear that day.—RUFUS FLYCATCHERDeep in the shadows, she could make out something dark and slimy and huge.In his dreams, Benjamin Ravenspell was chained to Amber. They were in some rocky barrens, with snow and ice all about. Coyotes yowled in the distance, their voices rising and falli...
A tap to his heel roused him from a deep sleep. For a moment, he realized he’d been dreaming of Fava, dreaming of her beside him on the bed, and he wanted only to hold that image in his mind.He opened his eyes. Chulata stood above him.“I need a body servant for the evening,” she said. “You will c...
The place had filled up with fishermen who knew how to draw their own rum from the tap and could be trusted to leave the proper coins on the table.They were a nervous lot, wondering aloud how soon Thomas might come in from the woods, speculating as to whether it would be wights—a very common thre...
It also resonated with the poetry of Yeats and Tennyson along with the work of Shakespeare. For example, in Macbeth, Malcom’s soldiers disguise themselves with boughs in Birnam Wood and then march to Dunsinane hill. This part of the play inspired Tolkien to create his En...
Around the rim of the crater, thousands of shadowy spider monkeys capered and shrieked, throwing stones and debris down from the cliff top. I was surrounded by large boulders, and across each sprawled a dying person covered with a white sheet. Flaco lay in front of me with his throat slashed, one...
Her thoughts swam in a red river of rage. She kept remembering how the Abyssinian had enjoyed tormenting her. She recalled the little song that Domino had sung about nibbling the heads off of mice, and she understood something that she’d never imagined. For a cat, killing was play.How many mice h...
Weighing nearly twenty-four pounds, the locals nicknamed it “Toad-zilla”!—FROM THE RAVENSPELL COOL BESTIARYIt is a well-known fact that Oregon is one of the rainiest states in all of North America. In fact, it is said that people in Oregon never get a suntan—instead they just rust.But what is not...
A dozen bonfires lit the scene, and flame-lit smoke rose up in clouds, casting red light upon the water. Bullfrogs croaked in the bushes, and bats wheeled about beneath the redwoods.Freya, a small moon, was nearly full, and its pale blue light shattered the darkness. The night was clear. In the s...
Before them was a small pond, water pooling from a rock cliff, that stretched up into the darkness. The pool appeared deep and still. Tiny blind fish and insects swam in it, yet Gallen dared not drink that water, for it had an unhealthy green tint to it. Besides, it was not the solemn pond, with ...
The air was warm, moist, like the air inside a house-tree. The very city was alive, growing.Windows in the roof let in some light, while glowing gems overhead provided the rest. As Gallen moved deeper into this living catacomb, he twice came upon open-air bazaars where merchants in colorful swirl...