false 3437309 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 3437309 2 3478318 book 4 7 2008 Empire in Black and Gold total:45|5:12|4:16|3:12|2:2|1:3| 45 167 143 9 1445909 4.05 85 17 29269725 682347 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 1 2 false Mon Aug 04 19:25:05 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 19:12:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 25289512 1120366 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 5 2 false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jun 24 05:34:43 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 23 14:36:42 -0800 2009 1 Empire in Black and Gold is the first volume of the fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

My impressions:

There is a wise man, a threat, a "party", a travel, betrayal, fights. Hmmh, sounds familiar. But there are no elves, dwarfs, hobbits or trolls....more...]]> 24527434 1229019 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 5 1 false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 22:23:49 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 23:08:07 -0700 2008 Excellent debut fantasy set in a quite unusual world of various human races that have some specific insect adaptation and are called insect-kinden, e.g. beetle-kinden squat, mechanically inclined, mantis-kinden fast deadly warriors, spider-kinden masters of intrigue in whose society women dom...more...]]> 69194823 2514435 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 3 0 false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 05:10:21 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 12:33:29 -0700 2009 1
The main strengths of the book are its ...more...]]> 78104983 2951212 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 5 0 false Tue Nov 17 12:23:31 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 22:35:43 -0800 2009
I mean, really - a bunch of different races with traits like insects? It hardly sounds like a recipe for a good book. But - I found this one on Amazon and read someone else's review, and let me...more...]]> 33876567 198122 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 1 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 03:27:32 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 08:30:48 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 41767444 274190 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 2 0 false Tue Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 16:59:56 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 05:42:33 -0800 2009 0.8 more...]]> 40087918 1502607 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 4 0 false Sun Dec 14 13:02:41 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 20:36:00 -0800 2009 72266171 2314306 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 3 0 false Wed Sep 23 14:29:03 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:29:42 -0700 2009 81939649 1852193 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Thu Dec 24 07:14:31 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 24 07:14:31 -0800 2009 81689717 2096086 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Mon Dec 21 15:13:16 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 15:19:03 -0800 2009 81510049 1805316 6964765 1616141921 9781616141929 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6964765-empire-in-black-and-gold 0.0 0 2008 0 0 false Sat Dec 19 15:51:18 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 15:51:27 -0800 2009 81318365 2655813 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Thu Dec 17 13:12:49 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 17 13:12:49 -0800 2009 80804828 2507733 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Sat Dec 12 18:05:47 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 12 18:05:47 -0800 2009 80276936 3004414 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Tue Dec 08 05:45:46 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 05:45:48 -0800 2009 79790000 2113551 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Thu Dec 03 14:00:46 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 14:00:46 -0800 2009 78402846 2956487 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 5 0 false Fri Nov 20 01:18:47 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 01:18:47 -0800 2009 77474548 338254 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Wed Nov 11 14:54:19 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 14:54:19 -0800 2009 77081157 2113437 3437309 0230704131 9780230704138 9 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3437309.Empire_in_Black_and_Gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Sun Nov 08 02:39:06 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 02:39:06 -0800 2009 76423162 490939 6964765 1616141921 9781616141929 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6964765-empire-in-black-and-gold 3.71 45 2008 0 0 false Sun Nov 01 19:41:59 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 19:42:01 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3437309