Tag Archives: If you liked

My goal is to recommend books for fans of a larger book franchise. For example, if you liked The Wheel of Time, you might also really like Raymond Feist’s Riftwar Saga. Easy enough, right? Except I’m going to try to be less obvious than that. I fully expect half of the people reading this post to say, ‘no shit dude I read that like 10 years ago!’ To you I say, you’re right. Most of this stuff will be widely read, but I hope not all of it. I also hope to recommend things outside of genre that will appeal to fans. We’ll have to wait and see. Hopefully, this post, and others like it, will turn people on to things they’ve never heard of, or never considered reading.

Before I get into the post, I should probably talk about American Gods first. I’ve not reviewed it myself, but my friends over at The Ranting Dragon have and I like how they put it:

American Gods is at times disturbing, strange and mysterious as we follow Shadow and his employer, Mr.

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Scott Lynch’s debut novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, has become something of an icon in the modern fantasy lexicon.… Read the rest

This is a new feature I’m going to try out here on the blog. My goal is to recommend books for fans of a larger book franchise. For example, if you liked The Wheel of Time, you might also really like Raymond Feist’s Riftwar Saga. Easy enough, right? Except I’m going to try to be less obvious than that. There are gads of tremendous books out there in the ethos that are largely ignored because they aren’t sexy anymore. Either they’re not new enough, or they never quite caught on, or it took too long for book two to show up and everyone forgot about it, or the author is a real asshole, or the publisher is an asshole and didn’t put resources behind it, or the agent is an asshole and won’t give up the eBook rights, or this blogger is an asshole and never reviewed it. Not to belabor the point (too late), but the main character might be an asshole.… Read the rest