Tag: dark adult fantasy
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The Tower of The Swallow – The Chilling Penultimate Tale in Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher Series
Things are slowly looking up with Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher series as The Tower of The Swallow provides some compelling and varied storytelling to progress the novels. While it isn’t a leap to say The Tower of The Swallow is my favourite in the novel series thus far, I can admit that things are developing…
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The Conflicts are Burning Hot in Penn Cole’s Heat of the Everflame
Heat of the Everflame, the third in the Kindred’s Curse saga by Penn Cole, has internal and external conflicts at a boiling point, relationships bending and breaking while others firge stronger bonds and more intimate connections, and the answers are emerging from the woodwork as the series heads to its final chapter. With the size…
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Slow Burn Romantasy Ignites in Penn Cole’s Glow of the Everflame
Glow of the Everflame, the second instalment in Penn Cole’s The Kindred’s Curse series, takes a step up from Spark of the Everflame in not only tension, conflicts, and character relationships, but in its length and story world expansion too. We have stepped into the world of the Descendent and there is a lot more…
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The Energy Picks Up in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Time of Contempt
The actions and grit of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series has returned in Time of Contempt, a happy sight given the lacklustre beginning in Blood of Elves. However, things aren’t all sunshine and rainbow’s in this addition the series. In fact, Time of Contempt has left me with a bitter taste in my mouth, reconsidering if…
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The Beginning of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher Novels Falls Flat
At last, I have begun the full-length novels in the Witcher series, starting with The Blood of Elves. I admit, I am a little disappointed with the shift in energy and grit this novel has taken from the short stories The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. While the short stories held a lot of…