Kalyna the Soothsayer by Elijah Kinch Spector: A lot of my reading friends have read this one and what they said intrigued me. Fake prophet getting involved in a lot of intrigue is a strong spell. The dramatis personae at the beginning was a touch right after my heart so I settled in with high […]| Peat Long's Blog
Most readers end up with a short list of authors where the majority of their works exist on a very special level to them. Guy Gavriel Kay is on mine – is maybe the only living author on it &#…| Peat Long's Blog
I knew I was forgetting to do something last month. There are many answers to what that thing was but one of them is reviewing Roger Zelazny’s second book in the Amber Chronicles, namely The Guns of Avalon. To cut right to the chase, the fact I forgot is in many ways the review itself. […]| Peat Long's Blog
I have not done the things with this month’s Wyrd & Wonder that I wished I had done. That’s a bygone though, and as such, all I can do is make the last of it with one last tale of fantasy on the high seas. Tim Powers’ On Stranger Tides. In 1718, Tim Powers’ Caribbean […]| Peat Long's Blog
When I first learned of the maritime mood for this month’s Wyrd & Wonder, my mind went straight to Le Guin’s classic, A Wizard of Earthsea. You see, not only is it one of the keysto…| Peat Long's Blog
This review is coming right from the hip and is driven by a quote on the Inception wiki page about heist stories traditionally being “very deliberately superficial in emotional terms” a…| Peat Long's Blog
Look. I’m not the most educated on literary matters but at the same time, I’ve been at this game thirty years, man and boy. I’ve been around the block a few times, seen some thing…| Peat Long's Blog
When I found Bridge of Birds a long time ago, a life-long love affair started. However, it took me forever to find the sequel, The Story of the Stone, and until now to finally read the last book he…| Peat Long's Blog
Every now and again you find a book of genius and must rhapsodize about it. That’s quite hard when it’s Tim Powers’ Declare and so much about its genius is not only spoilertastic,…| Peat Long's Blog
In general, I try to avoid knowing too much about a book before I start it. I like to make my voyage of discovery with as few expectations as possible. When it came to time for me and Zezee’s…| Peat Long's Blog
I, by and large, steer clear of Arthurian retellings. A huge part of this is Cornwell’s Warlord Trilogy, which I read young and took a large amount of direction from. It’s been a long t…| Peat Long's Blog
When you have talked about a favourite book over and over, the only thing left to do is to rip it to bits (lovingly) for entertainment. This is why Katherine Kerr’s Daggerspell is getting the…| Peat Long's Blog
The spark for this post was a book tag. The fuel is the past and the uncomfortable awareness that a good deal of the genre we love has been shaped by deeply dubious beliefs. Let me expound. When do…| Peat Long's Blog