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Castellan the Black and his Wise Draconic Tips on Life

7 March

Lords are not overly fussy about keeping all those nooks and crannies under their scales absolutely clean. As they get older, they can all too easily devolve into mouldy old has-beens. Make sure this doesn’t happen to you.
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Review of KINDLE Ebook The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

7 March

This is a review I’d written just before I went down with Covid-19 the first time and contracted Long Covid. What with one thing and another, I hadn’t posted it. But I came across it the other day and thought this book ought to be recommended as I recall that it was a thumping good read.
I can’t recall who recommended this one to me – but whoever it was, thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed this nuanced, well-written fantasy adventure.
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Can’t-Wait Wednesday

4 March

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.
This week’s Can’t-Wait offering: Children of Strike – Book 4 of the Children of Time series
Release date for the ebook – 26th March
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Review of NETGALLEY arc Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

3 March

I have had this arc sitting on my TBR pile for faaar too long and finally made space in my reading schedule to read it. After all, I’m a fan of Tchaikovsky’s writing – I also have two more arcs due out this year on said teetering pile – and wanted to tuck into this one before continuing with this year’s offerings. To date I’ve read and reviewed: the Children of Time series,Children of Time, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory – the Echoes of the Fall series The Tiger and the Wolf, The Bear and the Serpent, The Hyena and the Hawk; Redemption’s Blade: After the War, Guns of Dawn, The Expert System’s Brother, The Expert System’s Champion, Bee Speaker, Spiderlight, Ironclads, Dogs of War, Bear Head, The Doors of Eden, Firewalkers, Ogres, And Put Away Childish Things, One Day All This Will be Yours, Service Model, the Architects of Earth series – Shards of Earth, Eyes of the Void and Lords of Uncreation; Alien Clay; and The Tyrant Philosophers series – City of Last Chances, House of Open Wounds, Lives of Bitter Rain and Days of Shattered Faith.
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