Nov./Dec. 2016 - Nominations

[Brenno, The OCD guy]

Nominations are up!

[Silvana]

Blood Song by Anthony Ryan

Sampled this military fantasy a long time ago and came highly recommended by GR users I trusted.

[Tracey the Lizard Queen, First In, Last Out]

When the Heavens Fall by Marc Turner. I met him today, nice bloke!

[Scott]

The Barrow by Mark Smylie

[Tracey the Lizard Queen, First In, Last Out]

Perhaps one of you should send out a message to all members inviting them to nominate their favourites?

[Jonathon]

Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover. :)

[C.T.]

The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

[Andy]

I'll second The Steel Remains. Highest up on my TBR among the choices so far.

[Mark]

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

[Joe]

Sword of the North by Luke Scull

[Sumant]

Silvana wrote: " Blood Song by Anthony Ryan

Sampled this military fantasy a long time ago and came highly recommended by GR users I trusted."

I'll second this.

[MarkSpell]

Now you mention it, its easy to agree with....The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

[Swagat]

Hope and Red by Jon Skovron

I have not read it but a couple of my GR friends have reviewed it very highly here.




Tracey the Lizard Queen wrote: "When the Heavens Fall by Marc Turner. I met him today, nice bloke!"

The Chronicle of the Exile series by Marc Turner is a good series. If you like Malazan then you will like his books. Got the 3rd book of the series yesterday.

[Jarek "the Mistborn"]

Maybe Half a King

[Tracey the Lizard Queen, First In, Last Out]

Keep 'em coming! I'll keep nominations open till Friday and set up a poll on Saturday.

[[deleted user]]

The Mermaid's Tale. It's a sneaky little book released by a tiny publisher.

[Dezideriu]

The Great Ordeal - R. Scott Bakker

[Jake]

Legend -- David Gemmell. Classic!

[Tesserakt]

The Lies of Locke Lamora !

[Chris, kingtermite]

Tesserakt wrote: "The Lies of Locke Lamora !"

Sorry Tesserakt, that was a group read a few months back. You can see past group reads at the bottom of the main page.

[Tracey the Lizard Queen, First In, Last Out]

Last call for nominations! I'll be closing this thread tomorrow morning (UK time) and setting up the poll immediately after.

[Scott]

Just my two cents on the books brought up by others.


Blood Song - First two books were good not great. I always make the joke I like both types of fantasy grim and dark but these books were too much grim and not enough dark. For me I love that sense of camaraderie in the face of being blown to bits. Still most loved it. I didn't do book three because even those who loved books one and two only marginally liked this one.

When the Heavens Fall has been on my TBR for a while. I would love this one.

All the Barker books mentioned - I really expected to like him but DNF'd the first book at 25%. The names were too hard to remember and the plot plodding.

The Emperor's Blades - The last quarter of this book and the final two books in the series were terrific. The first three quarters of this I struggled. The main problem is the main three characters just aren't endearing. I would have liked them more if I hated them. As some of the other characters get more of a personality they bring it to life.

Legend - Was very good.

Half a King - Loved first law and this is on my TBR.

Hope and Red - Just added it to my TBR.

The Steel Remains - Was disappointing but not awful. I elected to abandon the series.

Heroes Die - On my TBR

Sword of the North - On my TBR

[Silvana]

Interesting observations, Scott. Will keep that in mind about Blood Song - to lessen my expectation somewhat. I'll read this whether it is still chosen as group read or not.

[Tracey the Lizard Queen, First In, Last Out]

I'm having some trouble creating the poll. Every time I try it times out, because GR is taking too long to respond. URGH!

[Brenno, The OCD guy]

Let me try here.

[Brenno, The OCD guy]

The Poll is open, you can vote here until October 31st!