New Releases – November (2)
We’re well on our way to 2014 and the end of another year filled with awesome books. I am currently so busy with schoolwork I barely have time to read more than 10 pages a day. I hate this and I hope most of the work will be done after this week so I can dive into all those books eagerly waiting on my shelf. For now, let’s just have a look at the second half of November and which books saw or will see the day of light in the second half of this month. The Land Across- Gene Wolf A novel of the fantastic set in an imagined…
Knife-Sworn – Tower and Knife #2 – Mazarkis Williams
Release Date: November 13th, 2012Publisher: Nightshade BooksAge Group: AdultPages: 346Format: e-bookSource: Netgalley After spending most of his life in captivity, Sarmin now sits upon the Throne of Cerana. But his reign is an uneasy one. And the emperor’s own heart is torn between two very different women: Mesema, a Windreader princess, and Grada, a lowborn untouchable with whom Sarmin shares a unique bond. In times past, a royal assassin known as the Emperor’s Knife served to defend the throne from menace, but the last Knife has perished and his successor has yet to be named. Sarmin must choose his own loyal death-dealer . . . but upon whom can be he bestow the burden of…
The Emperor’s Knife – Tower and Knife #1 – Mazarkis Williams
Release Date: October 27th, 2011Publisher: Jo Fletcher BooksAge Group: AdultPages: 450Format: PaperbackSource: Bought There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that attacks young and old, rich and poor alike. Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until you die in agony, or become a Carrier, doing the bidding of an evil intelligence, the Pattern Master. Anyone showing the tell-tale marks is put to death; that is Emperor Beyon’s law…but now the pattern is running over the Emperor’s own arms. His body servants have been executed, he ignores his wives, but he is doomed, for soon the pattern will reach his face. While Beyon’s agents scour the land for a cure, Sarmin,…