Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
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"Swords and Dark Magic

Swords and Dark Magic. One of my favorites for its twists and turns. A well thought out story. Highly recommend."
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""The creeping, undeniable realisation that heaven is a storm at sea, and the timbers of the world are breaking."

I had read the first Black Iron Legacy book, The Gutter Prayer, a few years ago and found it had a few interesting ideas but didn't quite " Read more of this review »
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"The Sword Triumphant is the final book in the epic fantasy trilogy Lands of the Firstborn. It has been four decades since Alf and the Nine killed Lord Bone and freed their world from his tyranny, and two decades since Alf defeated the Erlking and end" Read more of this review »
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“Ghouls love their eldritch mysterious stairwells descending infinitely into fucking shit-and-mushroom town.”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Gutter Prayer
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“God’s shit,” says Aleena. “That’s your idea of a fucking short cut? Let’s save time by getting sodomised by magic worms?”
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“From here, you see the heart of the old city, its palaces and churches, and towers reaching up like the hands of a man drowning, trying to break free of the warren of alleyways and hovels that surrounds them.”
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