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	Exile (The Nandor Tales, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 98 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackest Knights by C.T. Phipps (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Martin Owton (Goodreads Author), David Niall Wilson (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nandor (The Nandor Tales#2) 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows of Faerie 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackest Spells by C.T. Phipps (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael R. Baker (Goodreads Author), Allan Batchelder (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Vol 2 by David A. Riley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Mike Chinn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tais Teng (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deeper Shadows of Faerie 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full Fathom Forty by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nina Allan (Contributor), Suzanne Barbieri (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Stepping: An Anthology of Fantasy & Sci-Fi Tales by Debbie Mumford (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Patrice Sarath (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tom Fowler (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Touch of Crystal by Martin Owton (Goodreads Author), Gaie Sebold (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Happy New Year. Welcome to 2026. In fact it is nearly 3 weeks into 2026, how did that happen? Oh yeah, I went to Ireland for Christmas.

I’m going to leave myself a hostage to fortune by saying I intend to finish a first draft of Eternal Warrior book 2 this year. I have nearly 60k words and another 15-20k should do it. I also intend to start sending Eternal Warrior book 1 out to smaller publishers t

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How to classify this one? It certainly starts like an epic fantasy with Jarrod, the bookish younger son of the Empire's most brtual general, being sent to subdue a rebellious city. It continues like a fanasty until he reaches the city where the weird ...more
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Well-structured multi-viewpoint epic fantasy with a lot of magic. Well-built world and characters, consistently paced and entertaining.
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Having read and loved the entire Mennik Thorne series it is entirely predictable that I will like this....and I did. If you haven't read the series (why not??) then this is a good intro the the world and characters. ...more
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