Feed Your Interest

I just realised as I was writing this, that both books I’d just finished reading were filled with assassins. One a babe, and the other a dude.

Cally’s War
One of John Ringo’s spin-offs from his Posleen war series. This one actually takes place years after the war has ended (now you know who wins!! ;)), on an Earth that is at relative peace with the aliens that inhabit it and help rule it. All behind the scenes of course.

Our heroine is an assassin. Brought up that way, trained and mentally conditioned that way. She is freaking scary. In the opening scenes, we meet a guy that absolutely scared me. He’s brutal, he’s evil, he’s suspicious, and he’s really really really fond of torturing girls…
Cally of course, eventually goes up against him, takes everything he can throw at her, and then beats the crap out of him before going home for a nice bubble bath and sleep.
Cally rocks.

The main event is mostly interesting and fast moving. There are bits where the pace suddenly drops, or the focus switches entirely to a different character entirely. It can be a little jarring… But what the heck, John Ringo’s not known for an awesome literary skill. He’s better known for explosive, nail-biting action books that are a thorough joy to read…
The backdrop to the main event however, is quite very interesting. There’s a powerplay going on in the back ground that will obviously be played out in later books. Don’t get me wrong, this is a self-contained book. But you can tell that there is an over-arching strategy for the humans to get rid of those annoying aliens that are attempting to manipulate the events of Earth…

All in all, quite really actiony fun!

The other one was Way of Shadows.
This was the one I was whinging about not having been able to read because people kept stealing my last copy before I was able to get to it…
It’s good! It really really is. It’s got some of those good old stereotypes that you’d expect. Apprentice assassin from the streets, master assassin imparting all his knowledge before he permanently retires from the scene.
But built up on top of that is very skilled story writing, well-paced action, hopes and dreams and the shattering of them…

So there you go! More great books to read!

These just arrived!

There are a LOT of people who know the story of “The Wizard of Oz”. Not that many have read it. And only a very small number of people know that there are MORE “Oz” stories… 15 Oz Stories, to be exact…
A compilation of all 15 Oz stories, this is great for people who have never read the books, are just interested in the land of Oz, for people who wonder why Dorothy was allowed to get away with murder, for kids… Just anybody who enjoyed the Dorothy & The Wizard of Oz!

Deryni Rising - Katherine Kurtz
This is a reprint of Katherine Kurtz’s first book in the series. Long out of print, now an entire new generation can enjoy the magic and splendour of her fantasy series!

Radio Freefall - Matthew Jarpe
This book just sounds unbelievably weird… (in a good way)

Shadow’s Edge - Brent Weeks
This is the second book in the Night Angels trilogy… In one of those awesome departures from tradition, the 3rd and last book of the trilogy is being released next month! No long waits for never-ending series!!!!
On a more “how good is this book” related note, customers have been enjoying Way of Shadows and giving it high praise, so presumably it’s a good read.
One day people will stop stealing the copy I’ve put aside for myself and I’ll be able to read it…

Bloodring
The first book in a “possible tech/magic future” world, I’ve had customers asking for this for the last 2 months before it was released. So somebody somewhere has been saying interesting things about it.

Apart from those new ones that come to mind, there are a few other restocks that we got, including The Founding (this is a Gaunt’s Ghosts omnibus, and is worth reading if you want some military reading), Family Trade, Cally’s War…