The Silk Map – Gaunt and Bone #2 – Chris Willrich
Release date: May 6th, 2014 Publisher: Pyr Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 445 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review At the end of The Scroll of Years, the poet Persimmon Gaunt and her husband, the thief Imago Bone, had saved their child from evil forces at the price of trapping him within a pocket dimension. Now they will attempt what seems impossible; they will seek a way to recover their son. Allied with Snow Pine, a scrappy bandit who’s also lost her child to the Scroll of Years, Gaunt and Bone awaken the Great Sage, a monkeylike demigod of the East, currently trapped by vaster powers beneath a mountain. The…
The Scroll of Years – Gaunt and Bone #1 – Chris Willrich
Release date: September 24th, 2013 Publisher: Pyr Age Group: Adult Pages: 270 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. It’s Brent Weeks meets China Mieville in this wildly imaginative fantasy debut featuring high action, elegant writing, and sword and sorcery with a Chinese flare. Persimmon Gaunt and Imago Bone are a romantic couple and partners in crime. Persimmon is a poet from a well-to-do family, who found herself looking for adventure, while Imago is a thief in his ninth decade who is double-cursed, and his body has not aged in nearly seventy years. Together, their services and wanderlust have taken them into places better left unseen, and against odds best…