Although I read the first book, The Summoner, and enjoyed it to a certain degree, I must admit my sole reason for reading the second and third was my interest in SOME of the characters. For me Tris and Kiara are too cliché and very predictable. The plot seemed set and obvious from the very beginn...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, The Necromancer series is totally a guilty pleasure for me. I've really enjoyed this series of books. There were some sections that drug on a little bit for me, most notably the parts about Kiara and her pregnancy, but I chalk that up more to my likes an...
I really had to force myself to get through this book. The characters are introduced in a prologue that explains the past four books, but there is so much information laid out that it fails at its purpose. In one sense, I like Martin's writing, but in most cases I do not. It gets tiring reading t...
LOVE LOVE! I HOPE STORY NEVER ENDS Finished this morning. Another great chapter in the summoner series. Hope there's another one
I received a copy of this title from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I had fun reading this book. It's set in a solid fantasy-type world with a nice concept of magic. I agree with another reviewer who said that the vampires (yes, there are vampires) seemed like they were added just...
Cassidy Kincaide owns Trifles & Folly, an antique/curio store and high-end pawn shop in Charleston, South Carolina that is more than what it seems. Dangerous magical and supernatural items sometimes find their way into mortal hands or onto the market, and Cassidy is part of a shadowy Alliance of ...
MARTIN writes epic fantasy, urban fantasy, and steampunk. She is the author of The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, Dark Lady’s Chosen) from Solaris and The Fallen Kings Cycle (The Sworn, The Dread) from Orbit. The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga is her post...
CARENSA said, daring to stare down Vigus Quintrel. She had been back at Torsford for a day, not yet physically recovered from the last battle, though she doubted she would ever forget the bloodshed she had seen. Now, alone in the mage’s workshop with Quintrel long after the others had gone to bed...
His uniform was torn and burned, and his face was bruised. Some of the tears in his uniform were tinged with dried blood. Though it was obvious that the man was making every effort to hold himself together, his pupils were dilated and his face was ashen. “How many are dead?” King Merrill’s voice ...
The well-armed men lacked both flag and livery, raising Tris’s suspicions. Tris and Vahanian poled their raft toward the shallows and waited in the thin cover of dead reeds and overhanging branches until the guardsmen were gone. They trav-eled the rest of the night in silence, scanning the riverb...
Piran Rowse grumbled. “Not bad enough that we’ve got these bloody shackles. Does it have to be dark for half the year, too?” Blaine McFadden—Mick to his fellow inmates—grunted in reply. “That’s the point, Piran,” he said. “If you recall, we were exiled because they weren’t...
Anthony was doing well enough that he demanded Teag come over and reconnoiter with Sorren and me – that was his word, ‘reconnoiter’ – so that we could carry on. I decided that when all of this was over, I was buying Anthony dinner and a bottle of the best scotch I could afford. “Sariel’s powerful...
Veles asked sharply. “Poking around the records,” Thwaites replied. He had asked for a meeting with Veles in one of the private rooms at the Duquesne Club. Veles refused, wanting somewhere more discreet, and since Veles had no intention of having Thwaites intrude on his own home, he was obliged t...
Niklas Theilsson shouted the order to his men and pulled the rope tight across his shoulder, one of a team of eight men pulling on stout lines to drag away the heavy stones that blocked entrance to Arengarte’s cellars. Niklas was sweating despite the winter cold, and he ha...